SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST

Otago Witness, Issue 3495, 1 March 1921, Page 18

SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST

A GLOOMY PROPHECY. LONDON, February 25. Dean Inge (Dean of St. Paul’s), in a lecture entitled the “Coming Economic Struggle,” said the danger was not from the Blacks or the Reds, but from Yellows and Browns. It was not a military danger at present, but it might become military if the Whites persisted in excluding the Yellow and Brown races by violence from their half-empty territories. If the Whites were determined to throw the sword into the scale of peaceful competition, their rivals would be compelled to vindicate their rights by war. Japan did not wish to try conclusions with Europe or America on the battlefield so long as she was allowed to extend her influence in Asia. The Yellow peril was the peril of economic competition. The ratio of wages to output all over the East gave the native manufacturers an enormous advantage ovt the European and American manufacturers. Under a regime of peace, free trade and restricted immigration, the coloured races would outlive, outwork, and eventually exterminate the white race. The result of the European, Australian, and American Labour movements had been to produce a type of working man who had no survival value, and who, but for protection in an extremist form—namely, the prohibition of immigration—would soon be swept out of existence. That class of protection rested entirely on armed force. The abolition of war and the establishment of racial equality under the League of Nations would seal the doom of white labour such as the worker had himself made it. The white working man of to-day was dreaming of fresh rewards, doles, and privi” leges which were to make the white countries a paradise for his class, and yet a tne time he was living on sufferance behind an artificial dyke of ironclads and bayonets. On the other side there was. a far more efficient labour mass, which would eat him up in a generation if the barrier were removed. A policy of exclusion would not prevent those races which, were economically superior from increasing their wealth and military power. The British race should strive for increased production, the cessation of strikes, peace, free trade, and retrenchment. It must learn that _ industry must be conducted without privileges.