AMERICAN AFFAIRS

Otago Witness, Issue 3413, 13 August 1919, Page 50

AMERICAN AFFAIRS

PROHIBITION MOVEMENT. THE ALIEN MENACE.(FaOM 008 OWK CORHESPONDEKT ) CHRISTCHURCH, August 4. Dr T. A. Mac Gibbon, a prominent specialist in Christ'churcb, and a son of the Hon. T. Mac Gibbon, of Gore, has returned from a five months' trip to America, spending most of the time in Philadelphia and New York in professional business. Prohibition was imminent in the United States just before he left on his homeward journey through Canada. Erom what he noticed the '"'reform" was not regarded very much from a sentimental point of view, but rather as an efficiency move. The business* community was determined to have nothing in the country which would interfere with the efficiency of the workmen. The Americans realised that after the war there would \ be a huge fight for the trade supremacy of the world, and they were out to win if it was possible to do so. President Wilson, had temporised a little in his message to the Senate with regard to the possibility of allowing light wines and light beer to be imported or manufactured; but the Senate would have none of it, though in Canada they were permitted. After an acquaintance with the cosmopolitan character of the American cities and with their teeming thousands of low-type aliens, Dr Mac Gibbon said he thought fhat Australia was not very far wrong in insisting on the. policy of a white Australia. On the Western Coast the Japanese were be-** coming more and more unpopular and ag- . gressive. They were gettins possession of the land, and were growing exceedingly "uppish." "Even the Chinese were assert-" ing themselves rudely, and no doubt were getting an undue impression of their own importance because they could easily earn four dollars a day at cutting wood.'