THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1924. AN UNMIXED RACE.

Wairarapa Age, 25 March 1924, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1924. AN UNMIXED RACE.

One of the American visitors to the Medical Conference in Auckland, Dr. Emerson, of Harvard is much struck as tlie result of his "visit by the homogeneity of the New Zealand people and the cordiality of social relationships resulting therefrom. An American speaks on this subject with a good deal of feeling and a good deal of weight. It is very difficult for the people of New Zealand, living in their own tight little islands, far from the teeming populations of the world, and untroubled by the anxieties of land frontiers, to understand what an American feels about race admixture. In the United States the Anglo-Saxon race is certainly paramount, but that is all that can be said for it. The alien elements in the population arc very considerable and in many eases not harmonious, and the effect upon the outlook and the politics of the country, to say nothing of its internal security, are considerable. Not only has America been invaded by vast hordes of poor-class people from various parts of Europe, but the same causes—high wages and dear living—are bringing in hosts of -Asiatics, against whom stringent laws are now directed. It is all very well for New Zealand to bo loyal and sound at the core. There is no excuse for any other attitude. It is quite a different thing when the strangers within the gates number several in every ten of the population, and when there are foreign elements sufficiently strong to waylay the aspirations of the AngloSaxon element and make it difficult to carry out its own convictions. New Zealand is the most fortunate nation in the British Empire. It has no warring elements and no mixed blood to cause distractions. If it fails to be a great nation it must be purely for lack of imagination.