ALIENS AND NATURALISATION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17236, 12 August 1919, Page 9

ALIENS AND NATURALISATION.

! Sir, — Returned Soldiers' Association j is to be congratulated on k-ving an exeeu- | ' j t;ve with backbone. Apparently it is the '; . only body in New Zealand that Britishers ■ I who have suffered through the war can ! , depend on to keep in check this alien : . menace, which has been only too well j proved by bitter experience "during this I last five years of war to be a curse to the J British Empire. We should never lofe ; right of the fact that every alien coming i into the British Empire is keeping a Britj isher out of a job. I have often watched | hundreds of unemployed Britishers leaving Euaton Station, London, for Liverpool en route for America, crushed out of their own country through bad statesmanship. At the same time to even greater numj bers the aliens were flocking into London I by the Great Eastern Railway from the Continent with all their worldly goods tied up in bundles. They looked the scum : of the earth and were evidently imported | by res'dent aliens who were on the spot I to guide them to the al'en quarter in Lon- ! don. Work was found for them by the j foreigner in the heart of the Empire, while ; the politicians slept and saw nothing j wrong. Naturalisation to the majority of aliens is only a cloak. The man who j turns dog on his own country when it ; suits him would turn on ours when it : I suited his purpose again. We are looking i forward to the birth of a British Empire I Union to make and keep the Empire Brit- ( ish and counteract this alien-imported ! Bolshevism that is now raging throughout our fair empire and creating an alien state ■within our British state. Is it any won- j der that every Britisher is asking why we : have to pay in blood and money to pro- j tect our country, while those in power al- : j low this alien penetration to go on tin- ; checked? Has the sacrifice been in vain?] The greatest assista ice that can be now > given to the unemployed soldier is to say : i " Out with the alien and in with the Brit- j isher." That we should say that and ' live up to it is the earnest desire of I thousands. A Briton. j