NEW ALAND AND THE JAPANESE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13097, 9 February 1906, Page 6

NEW ALAND AND THE JAPANESE.

A CLOUD IN THE HORIZON.

Shaking at Palmerslon North on Mondaylast Mr. Seddon said there was one thing above all others that he wanted to seo New Zealand remain firm and true to, and that was purity of race. Under the altered conditions that now exi.r.ed there was a cloud on. the horizon. It might be no bigger than a man's hand, bus there was a cloud, and he wished to draw attention to it, and he would like Parliament and the people with no uncertain sound to say, '"We'll have no interference. We will sink political difficulties and show a bold front to maintain the purity of the race which had been » blessing to mankind, and which, if kept intact, would .continue' to be so."

The Wellington Post, in commenting on these remarks, said:—''Beating the air and slaying the slain are operations in which Mr. Seddon has indulged before now, but we are very much afraid that in the present instance he is not referring to a nonexistent, a remote, or a slumbering danger. We have indeed good reason for believing thai both the New Zealand Government and that of the Common wealth are in possession of despatches from the Imperial authorities which involve a very serious menace, both to the racial purity of these colonies and to their legislative independence. If our information is correct, these despatches emanated not from the present Liberal Cabinet in the Old Country, but from its predecessor; and the natural inference is that this action is the result of representations from the Far Eastern Power with which Great Britain has recently renewed and tightened her old alliance.''

Next day the New Zealand Times, which had in the meantime interviewed the Premier on the subject, published the following:—"We are happy to bo able to allay our contemporary'.* anxiety about those despatches, as far as New Zealand is concerned. The Premier has had no such communications nor despatches, nor is he aware that Japan has been urging tho free admission of her people to New Zealand or other parts of our Empire. Neither is Mr. Seddon informed that any Eastern Power has made representations to the British Government on the subject. The Premier does not think, either, that any understanding of such a character would be come to when the recent alliance was made between Britain and Japan. Somes months ago Mr. Seddon drew attention to what appears to be the natural corollary to the altored conditions of the East, and the danger, not only from Japanese but from Chinese, as demonstrated by the boycott of German and American goods at Hongko/ig and Pekin. Mr. Seddon considers that the. w-eak point in the situation is the northern territory of Australia, and he warmly commends President Roosevelt's advice to Mr. Beats (president of the Allied Manufacturers' Association of Aus- . tralia) the other day' Open your doors to immigration. Beware of keeping your far north empty.' Mr. Seddon says Mr. Roosevelt's advice is well-timed, and the Premier urges that the interests of Australia and New Zealand' are so interwoven that what threatens the one must be a danger to the other. 'The right to regulate who should be admitted to a self-governing colony,' adds the Premier, 'is a sacred privilege, which should be held inviolable." "

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