RICKSHA COOLIES and CHRISTCHURCH CABMEN.

NZ Truth, Issue 65, 15 September 1906, Page 5

RICKSHA COOLIES and CHRISTCHURCH CABMEN.

If it can possibly be prevented those ricksha men shouldn't be permitted to ply tor hire m the Christchurch, streets against the.cabtien^at Exhibition time. The City Council is chewing it over. Some fellow has applied for permits for a dozen of these stinking niggers to run along, beast fashion, da^ and night, and supply a degrading spectacle that the city doesn't want to witness. He said that they would take a' different "stand" to the cabbies^ Well, writer is afraid they'd have to. It might prove a good speculation ; the promoter evidently thinks so. At all events young coldnia has never had a" chance to wallop a nigger, and there would be' an element of novelty about the business. ' This writer, although a humane .man,- has often thought he would ilike to wallop a nigger, 1 or a batch of them, himself— if they were j worth walloping, and they invari&blyj aren't. However, the nigger industry, isn't wanted m Christchurch, or any-, where' e|se m this, colony ; arid' the, Cotincil should se.t its face against alot, qt • /coolies . prancing round '; the,, streets at Exhibition, or ahy"'dther,, timeV We don't want them to get a footing here. On humanitarian grounds these ricksha* people should be blocked. By the > way. a writer m the "Christchurch Press' srew quite sarcastic over an Article that had appeared m that, frightfully stolid journal of, religious: tendencies on the wrong day m the week, about these foreign: sons of guns who go fast at a cheap rate, tie pointed out Wat there were others besides niggers who pushed things, and said that an Act of Parliament should be, kicked through both Houses restraining people from pushing or drawing children about m prajtis," PX go-carts, or pushing invalids aTJ6ut m chairs and other contrivances. .';:ljf©' also 'mention-, ed that while goinpf to businefs^ hehad, noticed a mail pushing a pig along m a barrow, and^/that the poor wretch didnJt seem ''to'^ feel his; employment, to be a degradation— on the contrary, ' his face wor^ ; &n ex-, pression .of high satisfaction ' mixed with joyful expectation. It" was, however, a comfottytb him to notice that he wasn't 1 ; jj\^l!in_K it like a horse .or an' ass qr' : 'a rieksna man would do, and therefore hadn't descended to the low.eai depths, of degradation. The man who wrote ; that is/ either a dry humorist' or a hpe ,• himself, and as he -signs himself "Coolie" It is 'pretty, safe* to say that he is. something m that parr tioular line. Perhaps he is Pig.