STILL THEY COME.

NZ Truth, Issue 103, 8 June 1907, Page 4

STILL THEY COME.

«, _ The cry is "still they came," and jit is interesting, highly so, m fact, to -learn, that the arrivals of the "yellow Peril" m Wellington during May last greatly exceeded those of ■1906. Judging, also, by the start made m June of this year,, jnjther record is. about to be, put up by the alien. Moreover, we /have it on the impartial and ever accurate" daily paper authority that quite a number o£ our leprous "citizens!' are about to visit China, but are going toreturn' m the, course of a few months. It is a weekly matter now with the Wellington daily papers to. chronicle Ihe information , that so many Ckows arrived per ' me Australian boat, and the public, of coutss, fimid it no great difficulty m estimating to what extent the Government treasure coffers have benefited per the £100 poll-tax. We all know that New Zealand is the land of the free,-, so it should be, but it isn't to Chows, who must pay £100 fp the privilege of Conning here to make a fortune. If the Chow is so obnoxious'that a 1 barrier is raised against him :in the shape of a . polltax, it, ' surely, •, means that he is not wanted' here at ail, and why a Wihite New Zealand... Government doss not go the whole' ho^gaW bar- the Mongolian alt6gethfir pipiseth. all human,: ;, :The.-|ChbW ? admittedly, is aii .; imdegir aibjlo omigraivt. Me ■stinks and; leaves stint behind him; and he: knows he is not wanted, and he' takes the /opportunity of getting m <m>, the £l<30 >■. racket quite cheerfully, and sets^a'bout to make, it good m a manner the public linow too well. The,:ratev the Chow is flowing, into New Zealand, will, if it continues, a/t the end of this year, Rro've that the' Chow. population has doubled-; itself, in two years, and the fact that , the Chow has departed from the shores . is 'not to^fce seriously considered beoau'se;' he lias only giojie to. Chaina*, to buy 1 himself . the Ch-v.v oriUi'va'lent of a peerage, and to boss slaves) , and probably • send them out to New Zealand and p a y their poll-tax for ■ them arid make more' -fortunes . Half the Ghqws who •iea'P© i t^4ms colony ior^&lii^r.r-.^aia.j^ •well Me classed as wealth£^a^se«a-! tees. They make a pile here out of the 1 ' "white devils ;'" they cut a, big dash with it >m Flowery Land, and make other Chows wonder what i sort of country New- Zealand can be, where a 'slave' can lie; transformed into a Mandarin m five, or anything up to ten years. •Of course, love of native country is stron~ m the Ohow, tat bo only . laces to see it ttcw aiwL again, and then., does not stop ( for good. It would be a good idea for some shipping company to provide cheap excursions' to ; Ghowland. then New Zealand's aliens might be seized with home-siclcriess-'and' go ,'ome., and having got ...rid of them we could sh^t them . out • forever,- and give New Zealanders a chance m their own country. Now the only thing possible to cope successfully with the Chow :is to .boycott him, and whereever a boycott .has set m the Chow suffers and feels it ; aoid squeals loudly. It has proved successful m Wellington, Petpui'C> u«l m the Wairarapa, and ought to bo kept up. Just to show what can be done when the whites, put, heads together, can be imagirned from the following sent by ihs Shannon correspondent to a Levin paper :— "Our late Celestial fruit and vegetable vendor has fleparteu 1 for Otaki. Shannoh people do not take kindly to the presence of ' the C!mws, which fact is greatly to their credit. iThey tacitly agreed, tp starve out the pigtail retailer of stale cabbages, and lettuce, and so, after leading a forlorn '■• hope for eight months, h a . sadly 'shook Shannon's, mud off his cheap bluchers and departed." Why Wellington folk cannot do likewise is more than most country, people cannot understand. The country certajnly is showing the city its duty.