JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 174, 14 July 1908, Page 4

JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.

A lot is heard about a white Australia and a white New Zealand, but there would be no harm in quoting the views advanced from the Japanese side of the question. An Australian who visited Japan recently elicited the following statement from one of the professors of the University of Toko, a Shintoist;— "You Australians make great elTorts to trade. Your 'Parliaments borrow large sums of money for the purpose of dredging harbors, building docks, wharves, breakwaters, lighthouses, etc. Y'ou appoint commercial agents to the Fast, and then you pass legislation which deliberately insults the very people with whom you are making these efforts to trade. You give your children pennies to put in the Sunday-school missionary boxes for the purpose of converting the heathen (and you class all the colored races under that category); but even after they have been converted, you regard their presence as a degradation and a menace, and their creation as a blunder. All Christendom to-day prays "l'hy Kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven!' Prophets (many of Ihi'in colored men) have spoken of and looked forward to the lime when ■the whole earth shall be tilled with the knowledge of the Lord.' There is not :i professing Christian anywhere hut must admit the inclusion of the heathen of every tribe and nation in the Gospel plan' of sah'iitioii, which brings lis to the remarkable position that the alien may enter heaven, but may not enter Australia. Truly the logic of the wonderful 'White Australia' business leads us to some strange conclusions. Good enough to dwell for all eternity in Paradise with God Almighty, the Archangels, the Clieruliiin and Seraphim, the spirits of just men "lade perfect, Ihe glorious company of the apostles aud prophets, the noble army of martyrs; but—not good enough to dwell on the same continent with Mr. J. ('. Watson and the Australian Labor party!"