ANTI-CHINESE LEAGUE.

Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 46, 22 August 1895, Page 3

ANTI-CHINESE LEAGUE.

TO THE IDITOB. I Sib — I must again olaimyourindnlgenoe. I and this time to reply to " Sympathiser's" letter in your issue of last evening. " Sympathiser" is surely a new chnm, and has not yet learned that the fine old British feeling of justice and fair play in the country is understood to mean that a man's dnty is to hit family, and the people who are of his own race, first, and if there is anything to spare outsiders may hare it. Charity begins at home ! New Zealanders do not make it their boast that their country ii the dumping ground for all the refuse of the earth, and that ire will reeeire suoh with ontstretohed arms, and all the rest of it. The demooraoy of this oonntry rule, and they wisely say we oannot degrade oar people in order that the rest of the world can laugh up their sleeves and praise our magnanimous sentiment in receiving the sgumof Asia. " Sympathiser," judging from the tone of his letter, is a Britisher. Would ' }t not become him better to return to the' land bs left and nee bis efforts in teaohing his fellow countrymen that it in a much better, a wiser, and more philanthropic ihinß to uplift the down * trodden nnd degraded Of Jnp own oonntry, th»n to -, invite the refuse of the world to join them in -I their miserable lot and straggle for existence ? Would it not be a fine thing to tell his countrymen that there are 'thousands in England who have never heard the name of . God exoept in blasphemy, living in abject J misery and poverty and ignorance, and at the same -time thousands of pounds are ■pent annually in abortive attempts to Christianise the Chinese ? Adopt our motto, "Charity begins at home," and throw aside the bombastio words "British f airplay and lustide," and show a little meroy to our own . people. The fight for existence is too keen for sentiment and humbug to stand in the way. A flood of Chinese immigration to this fair colony would very soon reduce thousands of our people to the level of the British panpor. No new} to spend heaps of money sending missionaries to China to be tortured and . butchered— plenty of work at home. In foot, it would be better to assist General • Booth's soheme and assist people of our own raoe than allow the Chinese to flood this country. "Sympathiser" assures us that the Chinese will nerer become a burthen to this colony. This is saying more than he can ■ prove. Save they not, been a burthen to Australia P What about the leper asylums Uur-eP And what is a question of more importance than £ s d is this loathsome Wiut, bom whioh the Chineio rafter. I

I would also point out to "Sympathiser" that by polioe report it is the Chinese who shelter the notoriona "pushes" in Sydney and Melbonrne, and assist them to evade the polioe. It is in Chinese dena the members of the " pußhes" are initiated into the opium pipe and fan ton table. Will we allow this blight in our fair land at the instance of a few oroakers ? I am, Ac, Young Nxw Zealand. 21st August. P.S.*-Iwonld adviso "Sympathiser" (1) not to write letters when his blood is tingling; (2) to understand that no unfair action is meant to the Chinese, and that the League and Mr. Reeves' Bill do not aim at the ' Chinese now resident in the colony; 13) to consider our own poor, and let Bomo of his warm blood tingle for them. AN ANTIDOTE FOR DEPRESSION. * TO THE IDITOR. Sir — Yonr admirably dear outspoken . leader on " Inequitable Taxation " in last ' night's Post, together with Mr. H. Mason'B reoent pithy, humorous, and grimly eatirical letter on " Socialistic Legislation," and " Prevailing Depressions," perfectly sot before the world the true state of the polony, the fearful burthens plaoed upon it, and the awful straits the labouring classes ; and unemployed —who weigh heavily upon J the more fortunate — have to Btrnggle t through; whilst an unscrupnloua Ministry and its pliant and oringing, mijorily heap increased unbearable burthens by a moat iniquitous tariff and other perniciously drastic lawß, whioh are not fully comprehended by themselves as to their ultimate - effeot, being ultra-speculative, but smugly taking the flattering unotion .to themselves that they have lifted the oolony ont of the throes of despair and misery, when - we have " soup kitchens" in our midst to relieve the distressed, all through ' otnde, unintelligible enactments, and disseminating broad-oast false inducements to entice the unwary from far and near to our shores. Meanwhile, a preoious selfseeking ring blatantly pours forth brazen t laudations at banquets in fulsome praise of all this baneful legislation, and the involved * mysteries surrounding loan raising, to entrap -t the_ unwary and uninitiated. However, it is fervidly hoped the taxpayers have ( learnt a lesson during this Ministerial ocoupanoy of thn Treasury Benohos, and * when they and their pliant following of ( sycophants noxt woo the Bnffrages of electors they will be held accountable for their * sins of omission and commission, and relegated to the depths of obsenrity, from whence they should never have emerged, * and then, no doubt, good men and true emancipators will oome forth out of ob- ~ scurity to relieve this fearful state of stagnation and retrogression. I am, Ac, Held in Bondage. 22nd August. i J j . r c 3 x , ~ 1 i ■ ° / * » C ' ~ £ 0 a j t a f ■ * . c ( a 1 i i t