ANTI-ASIATIC.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8389, 30 March 1907, Page 5

ANTI-ASIATIC.

(To the Editor.) Sir,—lt is somewhat unfortunate for the prestige" of the Anti-Asiatic League, Masterton, that the sentiments expressed by the avowed leader thereof appeared in the Sydney Bulletin in the latter part of the year 1903 (with only this apparent difference—the Bulletin contribution was well written). Since that time the same arguments have been unsuccessfully pirated by' a number of writers, till finally they appear in a semi-comic form in the correspondence columns of the Wairarapa Age of last Thursday.. The attempt at humour is, however, abortive, and the arguments now old, ragged, and blue-mouldy. John Cameron, Anti-Asiatic League, Masterton, should endeavour (if possible) to be original. Let us now consider, Sir, the history of that great nation to which John Cameron belongs, the nation that is too high and Lordly to associate with the Chinese—a people who fill an equal place with the White Man in the plan of the Great Creator. Less than 400 years ago the King of that Great White Nation employed an executioner to murder innocent men and women, amongst the latter the wives of the King himself. Truly a glorious past! To-day in the cities of that Great Nation thousands of little half-clad children cry in vain for bread. To-day in the white man's cruel city hundreds of women (once the fairest of God's creatures), but since ruined and disgraced and now deserted by the White Man, shuffle down the dark alley-way in sin and shame and sorrow.

"Dreading the living and fearing the dead, Selling their soul for a morsel of bread." While out in the flare of the gaslight the carriage of the Prince and the Peer roll by to the gorgeous banquet. The poor woman, the outcast, pulls her scanty clothing around her and shivers ifi the friendly shadow, as the daughter" of the Duke sweeps up the costly stairway, glorious in her splendor and bedecked with glittering gems. Oh, the pity of it! John Cameron, can you find no nobler work to than jibe and sneer at the man from China? Consider for a while the crimes of your great nation- the horrors of a Deeming, the ghastly butcheries of a Jack-the-Ripper, the unspeakable crimes that have been committed even in fair New Zealand by the white man. Remember that our Courts of Justice are ever busy, and that our gaols are always full of criminals —white criminals, not Chinese. Finally, John Cameron, you should learn that the power of using g pen, to reproduce (badly) the work of another writer, and to write with evident glee the word Chow! Chow! Chow! is not by any means an accomplishment' to be proud of.—Yours, etc., MASTERTON.