RACE PROBLEMS IN AMERICA.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIX, Issue 13907, 7 November 1919, Page 2

RACE PROBLEMS IN AMERICA.

' Racial troubles, the tendency of the negroes to become more aggressive since thi' war, and the foreign element constitute perttirbinig factors in 4.n>"rican and Canadian life according to Mr John Spencer Bruntou, senior. who returned K. Sydney lately Mom an extended, trip abroad. He was accompanied by his son. Mr J. M Bruntou. who was on active service as a gunner with, the 13th Brigade, A.T.K.. and who was one of the old Sydney Grammar ; School boys who enlisted. j Mr Ilrunton, after his visit to Canada, draws a striking contrast between the farming conditions there and in Australia. "The condition," ho says. j "of the Canadian farmer cooped up from November to April in his shack of about 20ft square is absolutely demoralising, compared with the happy conditions of the Australian farmer, who is able to work all the year round without the discomfort of the extreme 'Canadian winter. '.\o Australian farmer should envy the lot of (he Canadian . tanner. But the farmers throughoutCanada have done remarkably well,* and if there has been any profiteering ' it has been the Canadian and American I farmers who have been getting the I money. They have been getting equal | to 9s a bushel for their wheat. T do 1 not blame them, however. The American and Canadian Governments we-e ! out to encourage- the growth of wheat. j but America has now a. handicap that itwill cost, probably a million dollars to see the guarantee through the 1019 crop. .

"The trouble iu Canada is the extraordinary preponderance of foreigners. The Dominion has a- population of eight millions. Over the last ten years there has been an increase -of three millions, and of that number the foreign element strongly preponderates. The serious strike in Winnipeg could he traced to this element—to Bolshevism arid T.W.W.'ism. It was only through the firmness of the community that the strike was defeated. The. Briton apparently does not settle in Canada, as the foreign element is too strong; he finds that, he has to go towards British Columbia and Vancouver, where be gets among British-speaking people.'' Mr Briiul.oii spoke of the racial quesI'oii as causing great anxiety to the Americans. Jt Was a question of eleven million negroes, and be had been, told (hat- since the war they had become more aggressive. But it was not the only trouble in America. Japanese in. flu'-nee on the Pacific coast is becoming alarming. H« instanced the industries which they wi'ti' controlling. This was v. by California had hesitated to join us wholeheartedly in the League of Nation:.: they witc afraid it might open tin- door still wider. Of the business pcoiile in Souffle, for instance, 00 per cent, were Japanese,