THE CHOW CURSE.

NZ Truth, Issue 106, 29 June 1907, Page 5

THE CHOW CURSE.

FINDS A CHAMPION IN CLERGYMAN CHAPPLE.

Tall Talk From a Timaru Parson.

Give Us This Day Our Daily Chow!

This paper 'has oftien been accused of condemning the Church, but what it really has condemned is the unChristian conduct of the professing j Christian, and his incapacity to grasp the public policy of ordinary humane and democratic principles. "Truth" holds that the Chinaman* is a nuisance, an uncivilised excrescence, and a moral blot on' the face Of NeW Zealand, and, with the great majority of the population, would like to have him removed and obliberated from our own landscape. Yet we find a Christian minister Jas. Chappie, St. Andrew's> -'Timaru,. writing to the local "Post" m this strain: "If they are allowed ' m the colony, and are law-abiding they should not be subject to these periodicinsults." What "Truth" desires to point out to Chow-champion Chappie is that only for him and his unpatriotic minority which he represents, the Yellow Curse wouldn't be allowed m the colony, and would be exterminated with celerity' and determination, were it not ( for the ; cheap-labor, nigger-loving propensi-" ties of the average Tory . Chappie, who has never visited; the Chow-hells m thu various cities, believes that the pig-tailed abomination 'is better than the ordinary Britisher, for he says : "There ate virtues m the Chinese that would be very . com- j meadable m us, if more strikingly m afire (l, i.e., industry, thrift, filial responsibilities, honesty, etc.". The Average Chow who gloats upon the white body of. his depraved woman victim will read this eulogy with pride. "Industry" he has certainly— to dodge, the Factories Act and denrive of a job the unfortunate white worker who has to support a wife and family. "Thrift" he has, too,, to live, on the smell oH a pra-v/er-boek, and deprive the country of what the general spending man contributes to , the general upkeep of j things. His "filial responsibilities" LOOKS LIKE A PRESBYTERIAN JOKE. seeing that nobody m this young country ever saw a Chinaman discharging his duty to his father. As the 'heathen is mostly imported'' am-. der contract by tho more wealthy of his countrymen and is left a charge on the state on his old age', the probability is that he has left his parents to starve m China! Lastly, the Chow's "honesty" does not exist beyond displaying good fruit m the . ( wiiwlotv, ati'd selling ■ the 'rotten' muck to 'nis unsuspecting customers, j The- love 'of the average parson for the Chinaman passeth, all 'under-' standing, like the grace of 'God, and l6ts of,- crtner ■ t'Mngs. Ohinkie Chappie, m his enthusiastic . regard for , the , Mongolian plague, ', writes with superior cussedness ; "It might be news to this writer (a. cjean Now 'Zealander) to know that an the evolution of races the Chinese had obtained a .fair civilisation v when the people of Britain were daubing themselves m colored pigments t a.nd cracking nuts m caves and hollow "trees." That is to say, with a start of 2000 years m the race of . civilisation, the Chinaman is the most backward of the living peoples, and a Presbyterian parson prefers him to his own countrymen, and his . own flesh and blood. Ah Chap Pie proceeds : "Some tinje ago'in Tapanui a Celestial was brutally murdered. Then there was THE" TERRY, ACT IN "WELLINGTON. • Within memory, too, a harmless Chinese Was maltreated by a crowd of footballers m a WesUand train, who finished yp by cutting his queue off: Some weeks ago a Chinaman m Christchurch was baited by, . hoodlums when learning to ride a cycle. Now, all these reports are sent back to China, and the only respite they have is- to do our teachers and missionaries to death, and Christians are shocked at the atrocities." It is a singular thing that people of narrow brain are unable to recognise the public horror of the yellow filth which these acts of the irresponsible interpret and forcibly illustrate. If Chappie and his kidney were not pro-Clipw : there could not be .any Chinaine/i, m the country to ill-treat, and the community would not be continually shocked by atrocities which are responsible for many missionary deaths m China. It seems poetic justice, somehow, that our missionaries should suffer for the acts of Lionel Terry, and Terry is deserving of commendation, if such is the case; for we want nothing to do with the Chinaman's country, just as we object to the unspeakable horror having anything to do with our country. Jn this respect the missionary is a meddlesome mischievous -fs^r son; he is always arousing international complications by his appeals to Britain for protection, and the missionaries deserve all the atrocity the Chows can heap upon them if thfey persist m hanging around 'where they aren't wanteil. Chappie appears to be a person who gets intoxicated with his own verbiage, '.for he wand-: ers around his subject and things generally m this fashion :■ "It staggers one to hear people m these days of education bearing such sentiments as. to-day expressed. If this writer is a young man he may live to see history repeating itself, and barbarians once more overrunning Europe. What with the declining birthrate, the love of luxury, the benefactions of millionaires, e|c, history is repeating itself,, too, ia this direction, and the seeds of our own decline and fall are m society. There is a lot of pat and flimsy talk now m these colonies about 'white' this And 'white' that, as if our Lord had said, 'By their skins ye shall know them.' " This is a large, loose, ineffective paragraph fey Chappie, which we throw m to brighten up this article. What the declining birthrate, the love of luxury, the benefactions of millionaires, etc.. has to do with the Chow question Chappie only knows. PROBABLY, UK DOESN'T KNOW; but he sees m liis mind's ere the j barbarian overrunning Europe, and j Vwants him to gain a footing m New '

Zealand. In fact, the unintclligibility of Chappie increases as he soes alons. He remarks, with surprise; "An educated Hindoo once said to me :— You Europeans say to your children when you wish them to be good : 'Here comes the black man.' Ih India Avhen we correct our children we say : • 'Here comes the white man, 1 and they are good at once.' " And an obtuse Chappie is unable to understand this natural race hatred which has separated white from black since the world began—which idiotic persons like Chappie have not advocated, and have been responsible for the half-caste mongrels whose existence accentuates the necessity for race separation. It is entirely unnecessary for Chappie to make a blasphemous use of the name of the Lord, and it appears to intelligent persons that the only way to bring pig-bead-ed persons like Chappie to their senses is to permit Ihe Chow to enter into competition with them m the pulpit business! . .