THE ECONOMIC STRUGGLE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15456, 26 February 1921, Page 3

THE ECONOMIC STRUGGLE.

DEAN INGE AND THE YELLOW PERIL. WHITE WORKERS PROTECTED BY IRONCLADS AND BAYONETS. Elec. Tel. Copyrigfu--Unlted Piess AssnJ LONDON, Feb. 25. Dean Inge, in a speech at Epsom on “The Economic Struggle in Europe and Asia,” declared that absolutely nowhere could whites compete on equal terms with colored labor. There was proof that under a regime of ,PQace,vfrße;ffi&de(fyjk,'! jmd restricted smjpstio», i the .V&riStS#* race would outliyep outw-orji:,. ana even- y. funlly exterminate* thet,white'..race.; $ . v Later.—Dean .Inge’s lecture was-, en- : titled “The Coming Economit Struggle,” and during his address he said the danger was not from the blacks or the reds, but from the yellows and browns. It was not a military danger at present, but might become military if the whites persisted in excluding the yellow and the brown races by violence from halfempty 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 over European and American manufacturers. Under a regime of peace, free trade and restricted immigration, the colored race would outlive, outwork, and eventually exterminate the white race. The result of the European, Australian,. and American Labor movement, continued Dean Inge, had been to produce a type of working man who had no survival value, and but for protection of an extremist form, namely, prohibition, of immigration, he would soon be swept, out of existence. That class of protection rested entirely on armed force.. The abolition of war and the establishment of social equality under the League of Nations, would seal the doom 'of the white laborer, such as ho had made himself. The white working man of to-day wns dreaming of fresh rewards, doles and privileges, which were to make tho white country a paradise for his class, yet all the time he was living on sufferance behind an artificial dvkc of ironclads and bayonets, on the other side beintr a far more efficient labor mass, which would eat him up in a generation if the barrier were removed. The policy of exclusion would not prevent races economically superior from increasing their wealth and military power. The race should strive for increased production, the cessation l of strikes, peace, free.trade, and retrenchment. Thev must learn that industry must he conducted without privileges A. and N.Z.C.A.'