THE COLORED PERIL.

Evening Star, Issue 15140, 24 March 1913, Page 1

THE COLORED PERIL.

[Spkciai, to the Star.] AVCKL.AXD. March 22. Commenting on Professor MacMillan Brown's remarks on the colored peril, the 'Star' sa\ y editorially:—ln our opinion, the- people of Australia and New Zealand have acted wisely in enforcing rigid prohihition against Oriental immigration—nothing less than this would prevent these countries from being swamped by cheap coloivd labor, with all its concomitant evils—but while we hold that the West, in self-defence, must' keep the East at arm's length, it must not be forgotten that such a policy is certain to antagonise the Eastern races, and may possibly even provoke them to acts of aggression. There is good reason, therefore, for preparing to defend ourselves against any such contingency. Possibly Professor' Broqyi, fresh from a prolonged tour in Eastern lands, has allowed himself to be, too' deeply impressed by the congestion of population and the extraordinary conditions of life that he has described so graphically. Dr Pearson, in his great work on 'National Characteristics,' long ago sounded this note of alarm, and bade Europe beware lest in lime the white races should find themselves submerged beneath the rising food of the_black and yellow civilisations, but even if these views represent too gloomy and despondent an outlook of tli.> future, they express, we believe, this indisputable truth: that tin; fdni. ai:,l ti,.West are racially antagonistic, that they must be kept apart, and that in the last resoit the white races must hold thornselves ready to combine if need be throughout the world to resist the further encroachment of the Oriental,