A PHILOSPIHCAL LETTER

Horowhenua Chronicle, 8 June 1910, Page 2

A PHILOSPIHCAL LETTER

JAPANESE Y Ml! SI'S EI'BOPEANS* To the Editor-Sir.--1 have been waiting to see :i any of my more t*rudit;■ neighbours would reply to your article of Uls't .May. wherein you cito the -I.llement I ron) ii Ja pa nose professor (.11 the attitude of the white towards the coloured races. I venture to think that if tlx? statementwas worth printing it should bo ■answered. The professor's statement reiiiiude me of the very old .story wherein the uncle of a. precocious university student proved by logic to that young gen.l leman that a horse chestnut must be a chestnut lu>r«e, -and provided ihim with a •addle and bridle to rido it. No amount of logic. however, enabled hi into do so. Similarly the professor's logic fails to prove! liis case; is in fact, just as ridiculous. The Christian races in endeavouring +o win (vtilier ncs over to Christianity are. I tinke it, aiming; at heathencustoms and barbarities .and endeavouring to woan the huts fro'iii those customs with a, view to -improve their conditions of life in their own country, -and, I imagine, .show iio desiro- for mil amalgamation of the races of the world. Surelv the. seeking of th'eir spiritual salvation is .a. thing quite aivirt from am emigration policy, and surely 'thvir spiritual Mild moral welfare might be linhawed without, inviting tliem, or encouraging, them to .settle in o'th'er countries? If 11k? .hps new! more territory why do they not- emulate the British and colonise ia new country ; net endeavour to steal tlinso wo-ia by 15ritisi])i enterpris-e. In the. grait scheme of creation, nations aix! ad;apted' to the part of (lie. globe in which they have their being. The wliit-e races, the red, the brown, the blade, are all adapted, to tilie climate to which lilature has all fit-ted them. In those, .and similar places, 'they aro at their 'best. In choosing Australasia, and New Zealand in. particular, for purposes of colonisation, the British, people found a climato sm.il ar to their oav.ii ; therefore thiey thrive in it. "When, however, tiliiey co to hat countries stkih .as Ilirjia, <i f<>w years, mosft frequently, is suflioie-nt to wreek their constitution. They -are wot adapted' to the climates and therefore weaken. Tlio progeny from intermarriage would .also, as ■n iwftirnl seouence, he. weakened. And therein lies the chief datnger of ex-tonsi ve. _cm i grat ion •of a,lien races. Ii) 9 British aw ]>■'a ili/i'idfnl of onnnna rntivelv. vet, wKat have tlhoy done in the world?- Has niv race dene as ni'Hi? Gninir fni-tlirr. do lirt the \vhit° i\ocps imte Me world, or so? But what tihen would lje the 'mM of q,

mixed breed? The ibreeder of bor.ses does 1 it) b ma to with a wen leer lirrnl; rather lie trios to preserve nml improve nil the qualities of his stork, by matin-,' them with <111 im i!m possessing somo pre-einin-oii'tlv ij, ( 1 n; I t j (i;i lif ie.s. And the smite in tin'" vejjetaibh:' wnrhl; the snnio iiti>x<>rablf law must Ik? followed; vim must Jim to jjfivod (|iMilitv wit<li u'Dod i|iii;iility or you breed downward. Tlic tiling has been long understood, iiiul breediinjj; has been made prniiniue.nt. by Shnkivsp;«:irt> in a lininl.'iH' (nf his plays. Olio quotation will lie 11 flic it'll t: "Yon .set*, sweet liriitl, we wed :i scion of a tender rice, t.n vtork of niiiu.'her nature. Tims nrt dotli mend nature: change it rather; but the »wt it-sell' is nature." And so it is all the scheme of nature, you iniis'l bne;l up, or the race will die. F'oll:>vv Xaturo's plan, and breed like with' like, or it: heroines simply a oase of survival of the st-miiiiest-; the l«w breeds no down. Now, surely it is (pule t outj>;t>tibl i* with tire pro,lYssion of a Christ-nil, to wish other fiecs to share *tilk» benefits t.hev think they derive from enlightenment, without- wishing them to h":ive their country, or to iiiiteriunrry with 'their sons and damrht-"i's. ft behoves us all, I think, to approve such a consiimatiiMi as that. More iVutieularlv when we know, we do, the potcmicv of (he blood of the tropical nations. f well remember reading that years auo. when French schemes cf cnlewisit inn brou<H';t Vrennh people jiiu -li in contact wi't-b iiefro".s, a y,trin"ent law was passed forbiddii l -'* marriage with Heroes, ; b"'"iusi> it is well established (lint; once ii'"iro blood is infu«ed witli white, if and ino breedillLt '""Ml <ret if net, ])I|| .I' 1 !" progeny frefc darker and t'urker, till eventually f!i f t'"' S'-ver-'l generations') thev are black. (lid W'dlin'ifnnhns lliav ri'M'e'idiei'. as T *■) invsi>lf, :i very notable i:i«e of this kind. — T am, etc.. TOT.