THE WORLD'S SLUM

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1747, 30 August 1905, Page 11

THE WORLD'S SLUM

HOW THE ALIEN IS UNDERMINING ENGLAND.

(By Bait Kennedy, in the "Daily Mail/’) London is being turned into the world’s slum. / • . The scum of the races of Europe .*© pouring in upon us. We are be hg invaded by hordes of -W&etrel aliens who are devouring the substance that' belongs to our own people. And' the hundreds of wise, well-fed men who rit in Parliament do nothing but talk. Englishmen are walking the streets in thousands while these men are talking. The'wives and children of Englishmen are dy.ng of hunger, while these men stand on platforms and talk evasions and make futile charges against ocher; wise, well-fed men who belong to this, same precious Parliament, -and who are alleged to be of a different party from themselves These wis-j-, well-fed men of words call theui selves Liberals, and again they call themselves Tories. Liberal and Tory. The difference between these two -words is not so acute as the political platform performers would lead, jus to think. Indeed, the plain man. is beginning to sea that there is no difference between them. One word means the other. ■ Parliament would act ' quickly enough if it thought its own immediate, personal skin was in danger. These well-fed, wellhoused orators would bestir themselves and reconcile the impalpable differences that divide them. But they shelter themselves behind the fact that the great, suffering English race is slow to move. They talk their nonsense from platforms whilst the scum of the races of Europe are pouring into England and swamping the chances of Englishmen to get a bite even of bread. ; Indeed- some ojP these useless word-mon-gers'go so "far as to say . that the. danger of England bdng.swamped by-the world’s refuse .is exaggerated. It is hard, when England is fronted by a grave national danger, to have "bo listen to words such as these. The poison <of- party feeling must have sunk deep- into men when, they. can ..allow themselves to talk in such. a manner. These men of Parliament depend upon

the slow patience, of their countrymen. But let them not depend too much. Parliament has rightly fallen, into contempt, but let it look to it-that it falls into nothing deeper. . • " Let Parliament stop talking and do its dutv. Let it stop this inflowing of de- , inferior aliens. Where will we get soldiers to fight the battles of England if v>ur people are to be done out of their bread by these worthless aliens? Will these low-down, foreign peoples fight for us ? .* Will they go out and brave’ death for usP

The English, working man is the hold and the backbone of our country. He works for us, he fights for us, he mans for -us our strong ships. He is as the apple of our eye. When he goes We gp. 'When he sinks we rink. The common Engl sh workaday man holds within himself the power and might and the splendour of our country. And at this moment he walks about the streets of ©ur immense city starving —our city that is being turned into a world-slum. Our city that is being made the refuge for foreign bullies and thieves and burglars and makers of counterfeit money, and shirkers from military duty, and loathsome paupers; They are teeming in upon us from all the nations of Europe. London is .the port for foreign human derelicts. ■ *

The slime of the world is oozing in upon us. And all that our useless Parliament can do is talk. . In God’s name if we are to have criminals let them be our own criminals. Let the burglars and thieves and the rest of it be English. It is enough for us to be saddled with our owngocial and administrative mistakes. Why should we take upon our shoulders the pauperism and the thlevedom of the whole of Europe? Let each of the nations of Europe handle its own paupers, and military shirkers, and wastrels. Let this be remembered: ’• - -

Rats multiply quicker than good men. • What we want above all. things in this country is a plentitude of good men. We want good, stout, strong-armed lads who can fight. For the time will surely come when England will have' to fight f. >r her very existence. Let us not delude ourselves. Before England-there looms a mighty and tremendous war. We must be prepared and ready with plenty of good men. _ '• And we must see to it that good men get -a chance to grow and to develop in our country. We must see to it that they are not choked to death by the pouring -n of worthless aliens. We must see to it that they get plenty of food, for without plenty of food it is impassible to grow a man who in time of danger will stand firm behind a bayonet, a rifle, or a gun. We must have plenty of good men.

It is impossible to labour this point too often. It is impossible to press it home too much. For upon it the very existence of England as a nation depends. At the present time the world is practically an armed camp. Despite the pratings of back-boneless philosophers the world is practically an armed camp. Despite the honeyed lies of diplomatiebs the world is steadily aiming itself to the teeth. And are we to pay attention to honeyed lies and back-boneless pratings, or are we to pay attention to facts ? Surely it is to facts that we must pay attention. We must turn our backs upon the fool who talk's of the thing that ought to be. One can only deal with the thing that is. The thing that ought to be is a myth invented by fools. It does not exist.

We, the Romans of modern times, have only become of might and kept in the world because we have always fronted facts.