BARRING THE CHOW.

NZ Truth, Issue 104, 15 June 1907, Page 6

BARRING THE CHOW.

Christchurch Takes the Lead*

It remained tot. Christchurcu iio come to the front and snap its fingers at the dogasted Chinkie, ithat pestiferous person who has been slowly and surely ousting the blasted white man and woman from the fruit, vegetable, and produce trade. He has bossed the markets, has this yellow mongrel, this scum of Asia; this individual whose person pollutes the very atmosphere ;> this dog of China who seeks to seduce young white girls ; who debaunches and deadens their finer feelings to all sense of decency and morality ; this hell-hound blot on our boasted civilisation. And Christchurch has taken the lead m bleeding his blastiferous nose, has it ? lib has. Ever since "Truth" started it has never ceased m hounding down this sover-eign-colored scum. We have voted for a white New Zealand and a White Commonwealth most insistently ,we have condemned Whites who deal off these slushies of a dirty race, and now our animadversions are being heeded ; our caustic criticisms-^all of which have been .amply deservedhave hit Europeans on the raw, and m Christchurch a good start has been made. The Chows are the biggest buyers at all the auction sales m the city mentioned, and they have been so arranging the bidding that the mere white trash often haven't much show. So ( the other day .when Matrec and Co. started business the swinish yellow brute got .a. terrible set back when the : auctioneer,' „ on taking .his stand, announced m decided and most convincing tones' that he was there to sell to. the white people or.lv; that he wouldn't accept a bid from a Chinaman. It was a clincher. One> excited/little .. Dn-ke strode up to the rostrumf and threatened the auctioneer with aw•fuL. pains and penalties^ or something equivalent to it m the srnellful Oho^V language. "Me bidtlee all lightec ; me summon you if you ■no takee.". The knight of the hammer didn't tell him to go to blazes ; it wasn't quite necessary but the white buy-

ers applauded, and Johnny yellowface had to go. Things were all right there that day, but that wasn't all. Brown, Little, and Co., another big firm of auctioneers, banned the damned Chinks, and things were onIv middling for the colored horde. But when Laery, Macfarlane, and Co. fell into line . ; '