THE YELLOW PERIL,

NZ Truth, Issue 72, 3 November 1906, Page 8

THE YELLOW PERIL,

TO THE EDITOB,

Sir,-— 'As the other two Wellington papers seem to be absolutely indifierent as to whether this country is populated by the infernal Chow or any other foreign devil, and being a constant reader of your paper, I should be glad if you would publish a few remarks of mine on the above.

To begin with, I was pleased to see a letter m the "Evening Post," of Bth inst., signed by "A European," and fully endorse his remarks, and f should like very much to communicate iwith him if he calls for my address iat your office, as I think it is high time some concerted action took place; and possibly if "A European" (and myself ; became acquainted some good might arise from it. Where I jam living I am almost surrounded by the infernal Chow; he is on both sides and at the back of me, aud he would get m front if he possibly ■could. In fact, he will own this country some day, if something is nut done soon to .stop. him. I know of two instances personally where two of my own countrymen have been boycotted by those brutes m t;he vegetable' and fruit and one of them had to. sell/ out horse, trap and harness m less than a' month af* ter starting because the so-called "ladies" requested Kirn not to call again as they had their "John," and the other has lost a considerable amount of business through that . fat beast of a.Chow at Island Bay. • Then I can give you a more glaring instance of to-adyism to the Chow by those who ought to have more respect for themselves. A friend of mine who lived m Jackson-street. Melrose, sot a road put through part of the Town Belt to enable those living m that street to get there without trespassing through private property, and to get there one had to nass' up Dee-street, past the Chinaman's garden (which has since been sold). One day, after "the new road was open for traffic, my friend went into town, and on returning late m the day he was astonished to see a man digging post holes across the road, and upon asking the reason was informed that he had orders from the City Engineer to put a fence across the road as the "Chinaman had been complaining that his horse got out on to the main road. Well, Sir, the upshot of it was that my friend there and then determined that he was not going to climb through a fence to oblige a Chow who put on a gate and fastened it ; so he cut open the gate every night, and. then, first chance, complained to the then Councillor, Mr Keane, who got the fence removed, just about three hours before my friend decided to remove it himself. Comment is needless.

Now, Sir, what is going to he done with all these young Chows that are growing up m this country? To my, knowledge Cuba-street contains some and Masterton has some. (Aye, and tiie purlieus of Tory-street dozens.— Ed;). I suppose m the ordinary course of nature when, they get older they will want wives and husbands, and probably they won't take them from among their own race, therefore the inference is that later on there will be, a race of mongrels m this country- cross-bred Chow and white, 1 a nice 1 combination, certainly. Something to be proud of, surely r I could. say a lot more on the'subject, but don't wish to take up top much of your space, but can't you rouse up the- -public (I mean the un-. principled public who deal with' Chinese), Mr Editor; to a sense of thejr responsibilities, and let us try to get this yellow curse out of the country before it gets too strong a hold. It can be done, by united action, and I will tell you one way that I think it can be done, if everybody followed my example last election and refused to vote for any candidate who would not pledge himself to rid the Wellington district of the Chow, ; ; as l\ did not find anyone to take that pledge I didn't vote. I was m the Hutt district at that time.— Yours, • etc., A CHOW HATER. Masterton, October 25, 1906.