THE YELLOW PERIL.

NZ Truth, Issue 117, 14 September 1907, Page 4

THE YELLOW PERIL.

HIS INSANITARY CONDITION.

More Mean White Chow

Champions.

■This paper has repeatedly had occasion to make strong remarks about. the undesiraWeness of the yellow 'horror that perambulates the country, and we repeatedly drop, across miserable individuals who are sufficiently unpatriotic to their own race to apologise for the Chow. It is not infrequently the case that these pro-Chinese persons, do not think enough of their own names to publish them, tout climb under the protecting shield of a n&in de plume. There is a person of this description at Hokitiika, where one of the local papers is being used to describe what a good citizen the loathsome Chinkie is v "Truth" recollects the time when it would not be safe m Hokitdka to openly espouse the cause of the heathen. "In the correspondence that is flourishing m the Hokitika paper a man named D. Greaney has taken the side of the white race against the alien, who, he points out is a most insanitary person. To this the mean white, who will not publish his name, has replied : "But what about the same conditions m which our white brethren live ? We talk about the 'Yellow agony' and their insanitary mode of living, but we must allow for the environments of such people.. Their up-to ringing has been different to the white race, and it takes some time before they are educated .into a different mode of living. Take the Maori, for example, and we find^ that it takes a considerable amount of time before he adopts the ordinary methods for the preservation of his health. With all our boasted education and civilisation we find a.num-. ber of cases our own people equal to, if not worse than that ATTRIBUTED TO THE CHINA- , MAN. In the report of an inspector for the Charitable. Aid Board m Wellington lately, it was stated that three families—whites, mind you, not yellow—' who were living m a house that was scarcely large: enough for one family, much, to thie 'detriment of the morals j of the children, leaving out the sanitary question altogether. We need not go to Wellington for exam-pies of insanitary conditions. We have it m our very midst,' under our own noses, to" the detriment of the nasal organ, and to the menace of the public health." The above person signs himself /'Observer," and .takes a pride m the fact that some white people live on the same plane. as the Chinaman. It seems impossible for. witless persons like ' 'Observer" to grasp that so long as the , Chow "is permitted to remain m New Zealand, . his presence will cause indigence 'and insanitary conditions amongst the poorer whites. It is the fact that . the heathen Chinee- has entered into competition with the" white, and that to >live the -white has to crawl down to the same plane as the Chow, that causes the overcrowding and insanitary conditions. • "Observer," with benevolent interest, watches the Chow supplant" the white, then he points with pride to the miserable condition of the white. It doesn't occur to r him that if the place of every Chow m the colony were taken by a white man, there would by far less indigence a^mongst the whites, and; they would not be forced to such a great extent . as ' at present, to crowd into insanitary tenements "to the "detriment of the morals of the children.". Owing to the unnatural con-, ditions of living compulsorily adopted by the Chinaman, the morals of our . children are m grave 'danger from his baneful presence, as a scrutiny of the criminal court records will assure the curious. It is. extremely probable that the rapacious Wellington landlord would still charge high' rents, even if every Chinaman was deported from the place, but a white man would have each Chinaman's job, he would demand more for his services than a Chow, and he would, therefore, be better able to PAY THE EXTORTIONATE RENT. Also he would be more independent and demand more sanitary hovels. The mental aberration oi "Observer" found further vent m the subjoined" howl :— "Then Mr Greanev accuses the (Chinaman of being no good to the coun-try-at largei, .'and that -a number, of them are receiving charitable aid. I would like to know how many of such are 'receiving such aid have been forced to do so through laziness, drink, or placing their money on the totalisator. I have no special plea for Ihc Chinaman, neither do I desire him as a companion, but m common justice I think that if the Government has imposed- a tax of £100 to be Paid by him, and he becomes ... " a law-abiding subject of the Empire, it w oul d n ot be . fair -play— l ea vi n-g oivt the Christian spirit— to persecute him. There is one great redeemingfeature about ifo? Chinaman we Europeans would do well to copy, and that 1 is they pay for whatever they get. artd. Ihe baker, butcher, grocer, or tradesman has no sleepless nights over what' John Chinaman owes him.v The receipt of charitable aid by the Chow is an objectionable thins: for the colony at large. The, Chow who receives it has been the bond slave of a boss who has . probably lone since departed for tha Flowery Land with the money wrung out of the worker;.. The poor Chow is an economic calamity for the. colony, because the country hasn't received the benefit of his early labors. That has.gone to China. To talk about a Chow's indigence being attributable to something other i'^an LAZINESS, DRINK, OR TOTE INVESTMENTS, is plain unadulterated rot, for the Chov/ is the oldest on earth, and he would rather have an opium smoke than a drink. It is quite true that no tradesman has sleepless nishts over what John Chinaman owes him,- for the simple reason that John Chinaman doesn't patronise the tradesman. He imports moot of his articles 6f consumption himself and, he's no good to any "tradesman. What the baker, butcher and grocer want to see m place of a Chow is a while | man wiih'a large family, who al- ! sorbs something more substantial j. [than rice.- • \