The Chinese must go.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 30, 20 August 1887, Page 4

The Chinese must go.

Ajbofos of the recent outbreak of leprosy in Sydney, the Bulletin has the following trenchant article The colonies are at last reaping some of the inestimable benefits accruing from the introduction of Chinese. Two cases of leprosy were the other day reported in Melbourne to the Central Board of Health, and the patients were not, in this instance, lazarettic Mongols but—Australian women. These wretched demireps are said to have contracted this sickening and tragical disease during their disgusting co-habitation with the rice-eating, fan-tan-besoddened, opium-soaked, pigtailed heathen who represent the “ yellow agony ” in Australia, and suggest an almondeyed and nauseous combination of filth, madness, death, and Oriental Orangeism. Now that these repulsive, primrose-hued reptiles are*hanaing on their paralysing touch from our trade to our daughters, we shall probably awaken to the gravity of the situation. Chinese gardners grow our vegetables, and force them with the feculenee of death and disease into a putrescent luxuriance. Drenched with the hateful stimulant, they reek on the dinner-table—small coffins are served out to children in helpings of cabbage and shrouds are munched with relish with the perhaps not-too-well-washed lettuce of the vesper meal. Chinese cabinetmakers manufacture our chairs, which come fresh from the haunts of nameless abomination into the homes of the unsuspecting. Touch its varnish gingerly ana burn youa clothing after casting it forth, for a grisly though an invisible Death is already sitting there. Chinese wash our linen, ana clothes mauled with fingers of nastiness are hugged to our cleanly flesh—we embrace a mysterious death in the folds of a garment The Chinese must go! and take with them their abominable vices and hideous plagues. Australia may be a spacious territory, but there is no room within its boundaries to swing a pigtail ; no space on its surface for a lazar-house.