ABUSE OF ARGUMENT?

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15520, 30 January 1914, Page 4

ABUSE OF ARGUMENT?

—It is hardly worth while writing to your paper in order to secure fair play on behalf of the much maligned foreigner, yet there is a limit to everything, and the scandalous campaign carried on ■ both in Australia and New Zealand against the French planters in the New Hebrides, should not be allowed to run wild, without a solitary Frenchman putting in an energetic protesthowever little attention it may secure. ~v - ' •, A. Put in a nutshell the position in the New Hebrides is the following There are two I'Tench- settlers to every one Britisher, and this favourable proportion is; likely to increase, hence the trouble. > All the talk , about slavery is pure hypocrisy, -for it is admitted that in Papua,; Australian settlers are just- as bad as Frenchmen in the New Hebrides. .Wherever you find the .capitalistic system' implanted, you hear of. the same old story. , Britain is the biggest employer of coloured labour, and there are naif a dozen cases we might pick from, if we wanted to show that slavery exists under her flag. No, the crux of the question lies in this: The Presbyterian missionaries are jealous of French progress in the New Hebrides; and in order to secure a complete monopoly they want the Australian Government to step in and annex not ' only the group, but New Caledonia also. Now, s< long as there is a single drop of ' blocd left in us, we never will Slow this to come about. We know that Anglo-Saxons axe rapac.ous, and want to collar the whole world at the least expense, but that the. French should be so mad as to give up these most valuable possessions is unthinkable. That is what makes your missionaries so wild. Hence the whole story about slavery, etc. / Godefbay Galitzenstein. Otahuhu.