STILL THEY COME!

NZ Truth, Issue 123, 26 October 1907, Page 4

STILL THEY COME !

♦ The fact that by the Moeraki, which arrived here last Wednesday, there was landed high and dry nine Chinamen, seven of which had never been heare before, is something worthy of consideration. Seven new Chows mean £700 to the Public Treasury. What these seven aliens means to the white population of the community is not hundreds, but probably thousands of pounds. The Government admit Chinese on the payment of a paltry £100 per hea.d, to land m the Dominion to. enter into an unfair competition, with the white trader. The white man being unable to adapt himself to the lowliving conditions of the refuse of the slums of Canton, will naturally go under. Seven Chinamen will soon undermine and drive out of business seventy whites, and a paternal Government, loudly proclaiming the principles of a White New Zealand, prefer to shilly-shally with anti-Chinese legislation than to boldly set forth and say to • the Chow you cannot land here 'because you are the most undesired of undesirable immigrants. The Chow that we get m New Zealand is not the typical Mongolian of China. The Chow that comes here ox to Australia to make his fortune is the sort that have been, rounded up from the slums and purlieus of Canton .to work the gold mines m South Africa. He is a criminal. He is a dirty, degraded wretch, whom the Chinese Government are only too willing to allow to depart from China, and m the words of a recent writer on the Chow of Canton, his mind "is unutterably vile and like an open sewer." He is a menace to the white wherever he goes, but here m New Zealand, it seems, that as long as he can r>lank down £100 the N.Z. Government, acting traitorously to its vaunted principles and the white people, admjt him to the rights of citizenship, and places him on the level of the New Zealander, bred, born, or adopted. Lionel Terry knew the Canton Chow. He had seen him m all his hideousness m Canada, America, Australia, and New Zealand. True, Terry "murdered" a beautiful specimen of this slum-bred hybrid, and the N.Z. Government were frightened to hang Terry, and it was easier to call him madman. The best way to evolve Lionel Terrys is for the New Zealand Government to admit the criminals of Canton at £100 per head. Then the Chinese question will settle itself.