A SERIOUS DANGER.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 May 1921, Page 4

A SERIOUS DANGER.

It was reported recently that over sixty Indians had arrived at Auckland from Suva, passed the education test, and been allowed to land. The Government is accepting a grave responsibility in allowing these hordes of Indians to come in. The education test is but a farce —any member of the nimble-witted black race can assimmilate the necessary knowledge in a day or two. The fact is apparent to anyone who keeps his eyes open that the Indian is invading every town and district in the Dominion. He generally engages in fruit-selling, either in shops or street hawking, or acts in a menial capacity in hotels, whilst many of late have taken to farming and light contracting work. In Auckland the Indian has also opened up as a barber and tobacconist, and in other parts as a furnisher. By reason of his mode of living, he can under-sell his competitors, and as most people are quite indifferent to nationality and standard of living, it is, if the invasion continues, only a matter of time when the Indian, with the Chinaman, will have a monopoly of the fruit and allied trades. This possibility is serious enough to those who think of the future, but there is the greater danger of racial impurity to consider. We owe a duty to posterity to keep the. race pure. Black will not mix with white, or yellow with white. The Indian we see here is a poor specimen of humanity, much poorer than the average Chinaman. Indeed, the Chinaman is a preferable colonist, and lives fairly well. The Indian, however, consorts with undesirable and fallen whites, and he lives on the “smell of an oil-rag.” True, he belongs nominally to the British Empire, but that fact should not blind us to the danger of his presence. The Government of this country have a duty to perform in effectually keeping out our Lack brother; if they fail the people will assuredly rue the day when they tolerated a degenerate section of the Indian race to come in indiscriminately. Education tests should be abolished, total prohibition enforced, and the blacks already here shipped back to the islands whence they should never have been allowed to depart. To take any other course is but to play with a I danger that is perhaps one of the most [various confronting „the country to-day.