THE RETRIBUTIVE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 7, 10 January 1899, Page 2

THE RETRIBUTIVE.

(To the Editor.) y[ : || Sir, —It requires no very special fa-., sight of mind to observe that retribution is often something winch is experienced in the present life as weU as in futurity,-and that, too, both m. v individual cases and peoples or nations. For some five years past this retribu- ,■ tion has been at work in this colony. Here are the particulars. About 7 ~.;-. years since there was a cry—a very stupid cry—which went up from the purely labour party in this colony, or, at least, a section of it, of 'New Zealand for the New Zealanders,-4a boastful cry, and which was at Once selfish, tyrannical, revolting, and rash; It was a cry which at the time made many o-enerous-hearted dwellers in the. land blush for their fellow-colonists ■ who had been led to join in it, for the root of it was certainly one which proved itself to be most despicably selfish and contemptibly mean. It arose from and was voiced by a. party of misnamed Liberals, or, more correctly, mania Liberals, as narrow and | puny-minded as that perhaps Of a monkey caged from its infancy might be. The Creator made the earth to be peopled. Now, observe a divine ■.; retribution, which has lately been at ~ work. In place of shiploads of desirable immigrants from the Mother Country being encouraged to land here, as should and ought to be, what do we see? Why, firstly, sundry bands of mixed Asiatics, men only; and, more latterly, continuous companies of from 40 to 50 strong of Austrians or Dalmatians, also men only. Worse _a£ still, these., almost without a single:.. (; exception, are but pilgrims and. sojourners, Or, so to speak, birds of plunder, appropriating all such as is within their power, and then return- , ing whence they came. Now, have we not here a clear instance of a providential retribution, if only men in general are not too shortsighted or obtuse to discern it.—l am, etc.,