THE CHOW CURSE.

NZ Truth, Issue 105, 22 June 1907, Page 5

THE CHOW CURSE.

CHINKIE PLACED OVER WHITE MEN.

Butler the Bounteous Boss.

What Happened at Wataroa.

The Chow m New Zealand is 'becoming a pretty big question, and the fact related m these columns last week that a number of auctioneers down at Christchurch had announced that m future they would decline any 'bids from the alien, is about the best possible indication of the feeling prevalent at present among; decent ■ white men. Anybody with eyes to see, ears to', hoar-, and, above all, noses to smell, know, •quiite well haw rapid us the progress of the yellow brute. He is an alien/an Asiatic of the lowest kind, when compared to the European. It, is the Chow, who, by his cheapness, his keenness m competition tha;t first undersells the white and drives him out of such trades as fruit and vegetable selling and groceries. This we know too well m Wellington, and it is 'against -Ms progress, against his ibeing fostered by white men, wonien. and children m Wellington that "Truth," single-handed, has waged such unrelentintr .warfare m the past* Therefore when it. is announced that white men auctioneers will refuse to , sell to Chinamen, when a boycott ' against the Ohow sets m, as is being done m the Wairarapa and other places, "Truth" loses little time m blazoning the fact throughout the length and breadth of the land. The Chinaman is not the white man's aqual yet, and to delay that fatal day ought to be the aim .of every sincere man and woman, whose love of nationality is strong within ithem. "Truth" would like to know, what would happen if on any waterside j work m; this city a gang of white men were placed undei j

THE CONTROL OF A NIGGER. Would not every Trades Union m the city rise m revolt? Would not pressure be brought to bear to remove the. black- cloud ? Men hardly care'to work under him, let alone with him. . If a. Chinaman was made a . ganger on any of . the wharves about Wellington, or .oh any roadmaking job, or on anything where white men were employed, what, again wouldi happen? To say 'Itivs ' least, the Chow would have to , fco. Tin possibility is he might' be dumped into \ the harbor. Indeed the possibility ..of "a Chow, a yellow, ieprous alien temg placed over white, men m Wellington would be ridiculous to con template. However, WelK ington, after all, is not New Zealand, and the melancholy fact has to be chronicled that m New Zealand, under Government control, a Government, boasting: of 'its' . white New Zealand- principles, Rives preference to a Chinaman over white' men. IV^aybe it was not the Government directly, but .it so happened at Wataroa,, a ,short time ago that i. a Chinaman was placed in' charge of some road work carried on under the auspices of the local Land Board, Now, the facts of this case, brought under the" notice: of- ''Truth" by ■mm.-* erous ref3* I d'e-nvw J of *[o}citikav is contained m a recent letter of coinplaint published m the .local paper. In response to an advertisement 12 men were enpjaged m Westland to go to Wataroa for the purposerof forming roads. The tiaen were engaged by the Laowl Boards and the foreman, on gansex,. was a man named Butler. - Work was started, at ,the latter eudj of January and continued it o March 25, and every man engaged had to pay Ms own travelling expenses, which amounted to £5 3/- eaoh. On arrival at Wataroa the men were more than surprised to find a Chinaman working with, them, and they suffered J it for some '"time ; but things got too hot altogether . On more than one occasion Butler had to leave the job, ' and every time he absented himself he put

THE CHINAMAN IN CHARGE. At last this became so scandalous, that, the twelve white men, who had been submitted to such a degradation actually resigned m a body, and the resignation was termed a strike. Recourse was had to the Westland Land Board, and needless to remark, the men were snubbed by some Jack-rin-office for daring to approach authority, and for declaring -tUem'selves. to be white men, who protested! against being bossed by a Chinaman. Now, this paper does not know Butler from a crow,, and what is more to the point, decent men would Hardly venture to cultivate the acquaintance of an alleged white man, who does not hesitate to' offer the gross and unpardonable insult of placing a Chow over his white-skin-ned brethren. This Butler bloke might regard the Chow as has own eqjual, and b therefore, at his own estimation Butler cannot be much class. Anyhow, what is the Westland Land Board thinking about m giving work to a dirty yellow brute of, a stinking, scrofulous alien when there are men everywhere . m New Zealand only too willing to get work/, and to work hard. New Zealand is a beautiful Paradise for the working man jvlien a Chow is pitchforked into the temporary vacated shoes of a ganger, and it would seem that the moment has arrived on the West Coast when the Chow should be guarded against. The West Coast at present is overrun by Chows. The dhow is not only) undermining, underselling,, and outworking the white man, but he is becoming

AN INTOLERABLE BURDEN on public charity. So notorious is it that members o£ the C'laiTtable Aid Board are bitterly complaining that while the Board is aiding indigent Chows their own countrymen m 'this colony do not even offer one penny towards the support of their yellow brethren. The Chinamen m New Zealand should be taxed for the support of the aged Chows, subsisting en public (harity m this colony, and until they ara forced to do so the prosperous Mongol m our midst will tell New Zealanuers to go to hell. It is all very well for people to say repatriate the Chow back to Flowery Land. He Won't go, because he will starve there. He prefers to remain m New. Zealand, where no one starves, -where everything is bright, where everybody is happy and contented and where poverty is said to bu. unknown.