OUR BROTHER—THE NOBLE ASIATIC.

NZ Truth, Issue 56, 14 July 1906, Page 4

OUR BROTHER— THE NOBLE ASIATIC.

_ _ — &~ — . — * We boast of our civilisation. In flowing periods, with more than a soupcon of rhetoric, we write of the wonders and glories and grandeur, of the nineteenth century— the _ greatest century of all time. Like pleased children ,we prate of our good fortune m living m the twentieth century—the beginning of the all-con-quering eon of science. The age of -riestcraft, we say to ourselves, was a mad, sad, bad age. Between the tenth and the twentieth centuries there is a mighty gulf fixed. A .miracle has been" performed, for lo ! the insane humanity upon which the zealot for God practised m the dark ages has become sane. The wretched slave has become a free man. In ecstatic vision the reformer already sees the last king strangled with the bowels of the last parson. The "herald of the golden age" points proudly to the peaceful revolution ,at work amongst us making for humanitarianism, kindness to animals, love for all living organisms. And "Britisher" writes the following screaming nonsense, giving the lie to all our boasts, to the "New Zealand Times" (10 ; 7 : '06) :- "Sir, — I may at once state that I am a firm believer an racial purity m its fullest sense. I am also -fully- persuaded that the British and Scandinavian races are descendants of Noah's son Shem, therefore Asiatic. Japanese history shows very clearly the Japanese are descended from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob— the same stock as the British. Sacred history informs us that Abraham, after he lost his wife Sarah, married Keturah. We are told m Genesis, 25th chapter, that Abraham had six sons by his wife Keturah,' and it is inferred that he had other sons by his concubines, for her gavp them gifts and sent them eastward. Is it any wonder that the King of Great Britain is Emperor of India ? There is also very strong evidence that the Japanese, with whom the British are m alliance, are the descendants of the tribes that settled on the east side of the Jordan— Reuben, Gad, and half of the tribe of JVlanessah ; so, British Israelites, beware how you treat your brethren. So poor old Abraham is compelled to father both the brutal British, whose horrible wars, culminating m the Boer war, have been made eternally infamous by every deviltry man, god, or demon could devise, and the treacherous Japanese who * attacked the Russian fleet at Port Arthur before any declaration of war had been made. Enough to make the wretched old waster pray the Almighty to grant him the boon of annihilation m preference to a continuance of his sojourn m heaven with such knowledge to gnaw at his vitals ! But that is not all. "Britisher," whose letter is quite sufficient to fasten on him the stigmata of religious monomania, concludes that the Chinese as well as the Japanese, are our "brethren," Spawn of Abraham,

too ! And, he attempts to. frighten immature readersjfof the "Times" by telling them • that the noble yellow man will "retaliate, commercially'" if we do not recognise our kinship with him and fulfil the claims of kinship » It ds • the everlasting reproach of our so-called Christian , : ; , religioti-ractually it is, as preached afis- practised nowadays, merely a vulgar superstition— that it turns out h^re-bramed, foolish, fanatic souls like, "Britisher" by the thousand. And every "Britisher" has his nersonal following of stinted souls whose nrbgeny fill the lazarettes, hospitals and; asylums for the insane.