THE CHEAP CHOW.

NZ Truth, Issue 118, 21 September 1907, Page 5

THE CHEAP CHOW.

NASEBY'S MAYOR AND THE ALIEN. The Chow m a New Role. Employed as a "Nurse Girl."

Pretty well all over New Zealand the Chow, particularly of the cheap and nasty variety, has spread himself out like a huge octupus. His feelers are everywhere. If he is not fruit-selling, he deals m groceries and hoodwinks the Law by selling tobacco when the ordinary tobacconist is shut up under heavy pains and penalties. If tlie Chow is not engaged m fruit and grocery selling he keeps a laundry. If not that ho is occasionally found navvying, and there he is boss, and when he is not •m that line he is found eking out an existence on the goldfields, and it is strange, passing strange, that a Chow on a deserted goldfitrld can always show color, and if it is not on a deserted field, the Chow, too., can always be found on the "cross," viz., buying crook stuff. He's so gentle, trustworthy, honest arid clean is the Chow, m the light of the lover of the cheap and nasty race • hut he is being found out since "Truth" tackled him, and he isn't the saint he was once made to appear; HE'S A LEPER, he's a danger and a menace to the white race ; he's a monster that should be mentioned to frighten children off to sleep, and he is just that sort of hybrid thing that respectable folk should keep as far off irom their children as *they possibly can. Now, talking of Chows and children, unsavory as the subject may be, "Truth" wants it placed on record that the "'Yellow Peril" is entering into competition m another industry, and that is the nurse-girl industry. It has come to that. In New Zealand use has been found for the alien m the capacity of male nurse. It's hard to believe, nevertheless it is a fact ancl the Chow nurse is to be found at that curious South Island village named Naseby, and, moreover, the said Chow is m the employment of no less an individual than Mr James Robert Kirk,

THE MAYOR OP NASEBY. Of course, if people, Mayors, councillors or common citizens prefer a . Chow to a nurse-girl, its their own look-out, though at the same time "Truth" sees no valid reason for keeping the fact a secret. People who employ Chows will stand any* thing, even a bit' of a touch-up m these respectable columns. Moreover, as Mr Mayor Kirk is a lawyer, and employs a white staff, it's not at all impossible that the day will yet come when has staff of clerks and office boys will he composed of cheap Chow coolies, who will accept anything m the shape of screw, and when it is said that

THE CHOW MALE "NURSE" gets a few hob a week for the combined services of groom and "nursegirl," it is natural to suppose that Mr Kirk won't let a little matter of a few hob a week stand m the way of securing a cheap Chow staff. This Chow, Le Gyn, or some . such name, is a particularly ugly specimen of his race. Easily he is the ugliest Chow m Naseby. He's got a lump like the side of a house on his frontispiece, and this always serves to speedily identify him as Kirk's cheap Chow coolie. Now, if Kirk kept him only as groom and only gave him a couple of hob spending silver weekly it might not appear so bad to lots of folk m Naseby. All the same, since Mayor Kirk came to light as a Chow employer he has become very unpopular, and next election tixne he might he made to feel it. However, it is said that the Mayoress of Naseby even c o oks the food for this yellow leprous pet, and when a thing like that is talked ahout it doesn't do the Chow employer any good. The fact bf a white woman having, to cook for a Chinaman is something that makes one's blood boil ; but when we hear it said that the Chow actually. nurses' the children, it's time to buck up and tell Jimmy Kirk, Mayor of Naseb3i, that he ought to he ashamed of himself. This Jimmy Kirk is a meajv kind of cuss, anyhow, otherwise he would give the grooming job to a white man ; and if there are children to he nursed then he should employ a nurse-girl, and there should be little difficulty m securing the services of either. What makes the matter all! the worse is that Kirk very

OFTEN OCCUPIES THE PULPIT m the local Scotchbyterian Church on, Sabbath mornings. Of course, Kirk is as respectable as anybody else m Naseby, or thinks he is, at anyrate, but there are some people m the villiage, or town, or city, or whatever -best describes the place, who are ready to swear that Kirk's few bob a week Chow is occasionally guilty of conduct which m a white man would cause ths asking of a lot of curious questions. If Kirk is a Wise man he will get rid of his cheap Chow ; if he thinks anything of his wife he will not allow her to cook for a Chow ; and if he loves his children better than he does his own life, he will not hesitate a second to forbid the Chow fr 0 m touching his off-spring. The Chow everywhere m New Zealand is a menace to our white chaldron. This statement "Truth" sticks to. It will repeat it and repeat it and prove it over and over again. When we hear that a white man consents to a Chow acting , the part of ''nurse-maid," "Truth" wonders what will happen next. There are plenty of white men m New Zealand, who, if they saw a Chow fondling a white, a pure-bred white child, would LEAVE HIM FOR DEAD. More power to them. "Truth" does not want to hurt Kirk's feelings intentionally. He knows, or ought tp know, that it iB ujnjdigirified m a j white man, particularly the Mayor | of a town, to employ a Chinaman, particularly mi n the capacity mentioned by ''Truth." j