RACIAL EQUALITY

Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 49, 26 February 1921, Page 5

RACIAL EQUALITY

DANGER TO THE WHITE WORKER PERIL OF ECONOMIC COM-' PETITION REMARKABLE LECTURE BY DEAN INGE. , ' (ENITSS PCISS ASSecUIHH,— MFIKI&BT.') tABSTKAMAN ■ NBK" ZEALAND CABI.B AESOCI'iTIOM.) * , LONDON. 25th February. Dean In#e, oE St. Paul's, delivered a lecture entitled "The Coming Economic Struggle," during the course of which he said the danger was not .from blacks, or reds, but from the yellows and browns, j It was not a military danger at present, but might become military if the whites persisted in excluding the yellow and ! brown races by violence' from half- , empty territories. If the whites determined to throw the sword into the scale of peaceful competition, their rivals would bfe compelled to vindicate their rights by war. The Japanese did not wish to try conclusions with linrope or America on the battlefield as lons ac she was allowed to extend her influence in Asia. The yellow peril was the peril of economic competition. The ratio of wages to output all over the East gave the native manufacturers an enormous advantage over European and American manufacturers. Under a, regime of peace, free • trade, and restricted immigration the coloured race would outlive, outwork, and eventually exterminate the white race.

The result of European, Australian, and .American Labour movements had been to produce a type of working man who had.no survival value, and but for protection of an extremist form —namely, the prohibition of irmnipration—would soon be swept out of existence. That class of protection rested entirely on armed force. " The abolition of war and the .establishment of racial equality under the League a pf Nations would seal the doom of the white labourer such as he had made himself. The white working man of to-day was dreaming of fresh rewards, doles, and privileges which were to make the white countries a paradise for his class; yet nil the £ime he was livinsr on sufferance behind an artificial dyke of ironclads and bayonets, on the other side there beinjr a far more efficient labour mass which would eat him up in 'a, generation if the barrier were removed. The policy of exclusion would not prevent races economically superior from increasing their wealth.and military power. The British race- should strive for increased production; a cessation of strikes, ceace, free trade, and retrenchment. , They must learn, that industry -must be conducted without privileges.