DESPICABLE NEWSPAPERS

NZ Truth, Issue 91, 16 March 1907, Page 5

DESPICABLE NEWSPAPERS

Pander to the Yellow Peril.

Unheljr Alliance Between Press and Pagan.

Sir Joseph "'Ward's magniloquent i message to make Australia white, and J the quite, unnecessary advice to keep it white ■■ may have been the effect,, of too much . junketing .and banqueting., else the question would naturallyt, and ih' fact does, -arise* what about- New Zealand ? Is she not as .much m need of Sirioe's fraternal solicitude as iht Commonwealth,' the politicians and people of which are to be, or Should be, trusted to do what is pecessary against the advance ; of the &lien Asiatic^ Wei m New Zealand, Ire concerned chiefly with New Zealand and it would be more politic, and certainly more decent, ,if heist atesmen would but "blow off a lil>iie hot air for the benefit ol those who placed them m power. „ ' The Mian, ' }c ne politician, publicist, preacher or private .individual, ' who will declare that New Zealand has ~_j#Jhing.- to fear f^om Jjhe Chinamen wlready^etyjed-herfej^not to mention those casiaiig'''ee%tous glances. .<on Own Country" is- a •- ; jbAMNED "■' DOUBLE-DYED "LIAR, * and no further proof, is wantjng^ to make, good that assertion t/han what; one can always get' by reading m any papery casually picked up, which is sure, to state that one, if iiot more, oiM<he accursed race has settled dowii^in the 'particular quiet 'country hamlet from which it emanates, or that they are spying: out the land, always of course to the detriment and danger of the white race. Once the Chinaman gets a sure footing tke inevitable happens. . '••' :■• V vice and' dirt;' ;i ■ sfoll^W 'm his- wake. He stinks; put his white neijihb'or, and the vacated 'place is tsfei •by another China-: ; man. Thus it is that Haining-streets fend Chinese • dens • and slums are : 'f«UR«L, ami whait is still more damnable the aliens; arSallowed to, pig like m their "pen, and Council and 'sanitary inspectors are either blind, devoid of the' sense, of smell, or else -they 'take "graft.'' It is one or the other, and it does not much' matter which— the , fact is, that stin-k and afilth assail and .offend every passer--by or near white resident, a.nd there :is no remedy 'aeainst'it. The aver- I .^age Chinaman is a cruel, lust/ul satyr. ;,He it is who-, with his opium .pipe ,-has effected the utter ruin .jot .vsrhite I bgirls and women ; it is by. his gamobling dens that many young men are dead- .to all sense of respectability and -helped along the road •T^which- ••■ ■■■ ■■■■•■ •■- ■ • •• ■ •... : f 1 ;; :; ends ; in- gaol. '-.;■'•■:■;•. r Jfhese are • some ! of the uses of dhi- <; iiamen m our midst, and tliese same Chinamen, sad '/-to. , say , have apQloJgists all over ,the colony, who.&ri|the r least provocation jiish into priiit or attempt to projplair^; to ,ithe world what a gentle, docile, •rlaw-abiding industrious creature the •r smirkme! Mongolian 1 always has proved to be, and how cruel it would be ■--At Parliament interfered, and .made his still harder. ... In N«w Zealand/ there is a Press which is a disgrace to any English-speaking community. ; v Bribed by advertisements there ; are' &'.'»« organs of public opinion" whioh/betray every interest of white men and women and child: It is this , same ; ? Press— these Yellow Journals-rwhich ;;j are dumb and maintain a suspicious, wheri, such 'cases as the... re- : cent Adelaide Road Chinese .store are before the courts rofdjbe: country. Even then they cannot say : a word m the ; defence o!f "their dirty,degraded, t mongrel-begotten and mon-grel-begeirting yellow ■; pets.; As a champion' of Chow champion's, that funny print, that counterfeit of a newspaper, the "Wairarapa Daily Times," 'printed and published at : Masterton, l where > Jzard's victims mostly reside, about Treats anything m the way iof croaking, cringing,' *;,smoodging to the yellow alien. It is | ' 1..a. Chow-loving print of the' meanest "order, and m its issue of March' 4 published the following "leadiag ar- ~ ticK" ':;.. Some outsider, unknown to Mas-- :.. tertpn, conies to this town ■ and or- .:. ganises a -crusade against the. i( Chi- ■ .-■• nese. The generjft sentiment m this town is not unfavorable to. thd Chinese pqpulation. The few iCeles-?, ■-. tials amongst, us are quirt, sober.; • law-abiding, inoffensive, and indus- ;•■ trious persons. As a matter of abstract justice , they are entitled to ... fair play at the hands of the comr munity, and they are likely to. re^ ceive it. „'iOt course, a few unthink- ? iag people may brj induced to ioin -. m sueh 'af. crusade. If an anti-Chi-y ne?e -league were needed ' in Master-. 1 ton the initiative' should have been : takea by some leading and responsible local settler, and not by an • ■ irresponsible outsider, off whom lit- , tie or nothing is known. ;' So much for' the "unknown out- '' sider," . "A prophet hath honor ex- . v.'cept m his own country," is as true ';" as anything recorded m Holy Writ, \ and the brilliant leader-writer of the "' "Daily Times V might have been f»r- "'■'■ given everything, even his statements T concerning the virtues of the Chows . of Masterton had he not drawn out from a Rip Van Winkle-like sleep . one "Justitia," who loves the Chow as he does his own children— if he has any— and who takes advantage of : the cowardly hedge of anonymity to ' belch forth his bad-breathed testimony on the virtues of THE GENTLE ALIEN, It is only a dirty skunk of a coward who m writing a letter to aneditor on such a stenchful question as Chows, refuses to allow his name • to go to the bottom of his painful and laborious screed. "Justitia's" letter is worth reproducing if only to show the ■ kind of white, recreants there are m New Zeala.nd. of course prpstiniinij' that "Justitia" is a white ma?i. The letter speaks for -itself : ! Tlic Anii-Chinese Aptzt\<w, ■<