WHITE OR BLACK?

Taranaki Daily News, 26 February 1921, Page 5

WHITE OR BLACK?

IS THE RACE IN PERIi-2 EUROPE'S ECONOMIC A WARNING TO LABOR. By Telegrapb.»-PreBS Received Feb. 25, 8.25 p.m. London, Feb. 25. Dean Inge, in a speech at Epsom on the economic struggle in Europe and Asia, declared thst absolutely nowhere could whites compete on equal'" terms with colored labor. There was proof that under the regime of peace, free trade, and restricted emigration, the colored race would outlive, outwork, find eventually exterminate the white race. Dean Inge was lecturing on “The Coming Economic Struggle,” and he said the danger was not from blacks or reds, but from yellows and browns. It was not a military danger at present, but it might become military if the whites persisted in excluding the yellow and brown races by violence from half empty territories. If the whites determined to throw the sword in* to the scale of peaceful competition, then rivals would be compelled to vindicate their rights by war. The Japanese did not wish to try conclusions with Europe or America on the battlefield as long as she was allowed to extend her influence in Asia. The yellow peril was a peril of economic competition. The ratio of wages to output all over the East gave native manufacturers an enormous advantage over European and American manufacturers. The result of the European, Australian, and American Labor movements had been to produce a type of working man who had no survival value, and but for the protection of an extremist form, namely the prohibition of immigrantion, would soon be swept out of existence. That class of protection rested entirely on armed force. The abolition of war s and the establishment of racial equality under the League of Nations would seal the doom of the white laborer, such as he had made himself white. The working man of to-day was dreaming of fresh awards, doles, and privileges which were to make the white countries a paradise for his class, yet all the time he was living on suL ferenee behind an artificial dyke of ironclads and bayonets. On the other side there was a far more efficient la* bor mass which would eat him up in a generation if the barrier was removed. The policy of exclusion would not prevent races economically superior from increasing their wealth and military power. The British race should strive for increased production, the cessation of strikes, peace, free trade, and retrenchment. They must‘learn that industry must be conducted without privi-leges.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.