The Daily News FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30. LEAVING THE OLD HOME.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81897, 30 November 1906, Page 2

The Daily News FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30. LEAVING THE OLD HOME.

A tOiII'ARAiiVELV large 'number of the best kinds of BritUucrs have been arriving j u this country lately. Tue American United States and the Dominion of Canada absorb thousands I ol tlie best ijiilishers, too, evety year. Africa and many other countries, including the great Australian continent, dri.V latgely U p jn the British brawn, and the British birth-rate is going dowa. Vet it must be remembered that thuv is a small matter uf torty mi.lions or s c of people in the British Isles sliil, that the wealth of britain 15 very gieat indeed, and that •he dioncs glow in proportion to the decrease of the British workers year by year. As citizens of the Empire tne .\ew Zealander i 5 naturally btatiul «o regard tli e portion thoughtful,-. Ho must see that the cou-tant wit 1u.awal of the brawn of Britain must weaken the parent slock and sttcn"tl'en the co.onial stock. He needs not he brain of a Solomon to foresee n> thu ftiiu.e off-saoas 0 f Britain !>"' saall be subject to no one, and lie must realise that th c Hume ; a nd "ill in the near future have to =cc about inducing the immigrants .he colonics, requirti SJ much, to stay at Home.

How is Britain inducing its people '■> stay at Home? A nccnllv a 1 rived immigrant slates that the "foreign element at Home is larger ihan ever. It i> a lact that there are fifty tnoy=>acd Germans in London a one a,id this is but a trilling proportiu'i, J tl'e foreigners that nave no 8ri.,,,, sympathy and who would be a menace should the Old Country he involved in war. liie great cities are teething with foreign s | ums . Tllc Butish olum-dw.'ileis are driven out of bud s urns into worse ones to make r..om lur Russian JcVvs and evenother kind of alien. Britain keeps her doors open, so that the foreigner may come 111 and the Britisher go out. There are more foreigners beote the London police courts than there are British. There arc more tot'eign applicants for re |i e f tnan thei* are British. And Biitain is Mil kind to the cast-offs of the earth. Only the other day there came a wire mat 111 Livcrpoo. alone there were two thousand Chinese. The pilot, "it Hie coast of Biitain are mostly foreigner,, ft i s fashionable for a wealthy p Crson w i tl , a motol , Mr f(j employ a Britisher to drive ii. \\ U J C corp. of Biiti»h boys a r e kept to act •h ilunkeys to foteignas and low them aroutid the ciue.s. fn some pat Is of the great cities one docs not "car I-.iighsrt spoken. Is it any wonder that British pooplrj :eavc the tabled land of freedom:

British trade ls greater than it ever was Britain's wealth i s unexampled. Britain 15 the money-lender for the world. "British" is ,ii I tlic iiall-mark of excellence. Other people know it and trade on it. There are hundreds of mil.ions of foreign capital in manufactures eairied on in Great Britain, the majurity of which is of 'not the least benefit to the people. A large number of the great concerns at Home ale foicjgn-owtied. pay dividend- to foreigners and employ foreign labor. f s it um - w „ n . tier that ti.e meic British person c.eiirs out or Uiat the Amiv is unable to get fit recruits? Even this does not mean that the standard of British physique is poor. It means that the man who is physically strong enough to fight or learn the art of defence is physically strong enough to battle for himself. It means taat any independence Biiti-hers of the middle orders possess is showing itself, and the iniolci able humiliations 1 hat are thrust on tne serving class have become greater than will bear. Abject independence) and discip iaed li'uniiiJty ea'n bo bought from toe, iiurces of foieigners -who infest Britain and the blind maney-grubut is love abject independence. Hence tne increase of foreign paupers and lue cleciease of the British worker. The British worker is beginning to understand things a little bitter than he did and he i 3 tiring of ihe old t'l-iiah of the o-d nobility.

The British capitalist may find i easy enough to earn more wealth b; foreign labor and te'us of thousand" of slums icnted by warrcfris of l'o reigucis, but lie cannot get foreign ers to fight for him, which, after all is what John Bui w'iil need soone or later. Already the great papci; 111 the Old Couniiy conceive tee po.s sibility of self-governing colonic

"cutting the painter,'' and suet, a contingency, however remote, cannot be scoffed at, Tiiere is no disloyalty in the action of a Biiton who leaves his couniiy, driven the'nee by the foreign.r, nu-hing culpable in wishing to share in grca\r freedom, less humiliating discipline, fewer bowing; and soaping to the, dro'n-s. Britain's policy of making ihe land untenable for the s.uuly independents who naie being humiliated is a useful policy in that it helps other countries to a supp y of the best brawn and sinew available. Such a policy is building- up off-shoot nations that may wish to be independent, stif-contajned and self-defend-ing. The evidence of the constantly anivi'ng immigrant is to the effect that .ite ill Britain for the struggling is geiting harder, and it makes one sorry that the great ones of the Old Laud will not see the meuace in it all.