THE ANTI-SEMITIC AND ANTI-MONGOLIAN' CRUSADES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 6092, 19 August 1881, Page 3

THE ANTI-SEMITIC AND ANTI-MONGOLIAN' CRUSADES.

TO TUB EDITOR.

Sm,—l read with pleasure your article on the persecution of the Jews, and trust that the public of Dunedin and of New Zealand generally may be roused . from their indifference, and give practical expression to their disapproval of such a disgrace to nineteenthcentury civilisation. As regards the nnti-Chinese i movement, I feel inclined with Dr Brown to quote ! your own words in the above-mentioned article condemning the persecution, but applying them to the case of the Chinese. Wo may consider ourselves the superior race, but wo should I not act on this assumption for tho selfish purpose of placing any other race at a disadvantage, save , |!n honourable, scientific, and commercial competition. 1 Tho Americans have a saying that if you shake up a i sack of potatoes all the small ones will go to the bottom. Most assuredly if the Chinese are infe ior they will by the laws of social gravitation tend to a low t'position, but at least we ought to give them freedom ; to take whatever position they would nauirally occupy .without handicapping them with piuhibit.m pollMaws and lioMin^ them up as 11 people to -'he duspi-bii Xot«-itl'.-t:i::.!i:ii.' Cs;>;:i'.n I'ra-wV du- > imndjion of th« M..i.^K. «o '•"■■ld l«i n m.,i.v rlutcfili le-sons f'O .. ti.u... even in a,-,;i übure. I hey ; ikuc •' v cfu' lnw-at.id.ti.-. :.ml inoffeii-iv.,,' ami --c ,1 m, i come bi.forc our i-onrtu or law. \Vh--i our Briiian; i-ii'i.l other l-'i'-npeaii races u.r« without sin, «v can \ Afford to i-aat stones at tho Chinese—not till the;.. If,, indeed, the Chinese are so low in the <<calo of civi'.isa-' t.on :w theChinophobists pretend, let Christians show; ; their chaiitv and free-thinking philanthropists their . llove of human nature, not only by tokrctiiiK the pror i»onc« of the O'bingso amongst ua, but by endeavouring

to ameliorate their condition, so that such of them aa return to their own country may carry with them the recollections of kindness, and the seeds of the cood principles which they have acquired from us. — I am, &c. Zeta. Dunedin, August 18th.