Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1874.] WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1895. TURBANS AND TAILS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5014, 1 May 1895, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1874.] WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1895. TURBANS AND TAILS.

Baiting the Chinaman is a favourite pastime with tho case-hardened prolligates that compose the Sydney " pushes." The fun is by no mean's

exhilarating to the vegetable Chow who is subjected to the most cruel and inhuman treatment for the amusement of the overgrown boys of the pushes. Baiting the Chinaman ill a milder form affords amusement to quite another class of persons, and periodically we have public meetings to discuss the "Chinese question." One of these eruptions has just occurred at Christchurcli, when the same old dangers and risks were resurrected, the same frothy speeches were made, and the old familiar resolutions passed. Side by side with the pig-tail of the Celestial wo have the turban of the Indian, and turbans and tails are muler a political ban. They are undesirable immigrants, Asiatic aliens, who must be fenced out; they are the 'dirty, disease-spreading scum of Asia, and should not bo allowed a foothold in this fair and bright Colony. We arc bv no means in favor of

Asiatic immigration, but at the same time wo have no patience with the speakers and writers, •whose language when dealing with the subject, is of a ruddy and sanguinary oharaeter, The Asiatics come to these Colonies for the same purpose as do tho white peoplo, and that is to make money, . and if tho Chinese have been suc-

'BOBSfuI in their ventures, it is ' - duo to the sympathy and entirely ' 'lnlonisls, Tjip aversupportofthov.. • wlli (jilitfe age anti-Chinese orator _ ■ uti flB in measured terms on the iniquk.. of tho Chinaman, before a public meeting, Aid the next day contribute to the support of the almond-eyed Celestials, by purchasing fruit and vegetables from them,. So long as the Chinamen can make money iiij this Colony, we may expect to see them here. Heavy poll taxes will not deter them, but may lessen their numbers. The simplest way to solve tho Chinese question, is to make it impossible for a Colestial Chow to make a living in the Colony, but this method requires a vast amount of self-denial, which the average Colonial is unable or unwilling to endure, The fruit and vegetables

vended by Chinamen, if they are disease promoters, are oheapj nnd cheapness "fetches."