KWEI CHIH.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12881, 7 April 1913, Page 2

KWEI CHIH.

The new Chinese Consul-General h«as arrived. He is v very modern Chin-f^o f«f wide culture, named Kwci Chih. He was at one time Chinese Ambassador at Washington, :-t another Secretary of ■'.he Chinese Legation in London; and v.hy ho is relt'sated to the comparative cbsc'iirity of Lliis post I do not know. A*, one time, too, ho was a professor of Irs to ry in a Chinese University. He is really a learned, man. -So that he does not pretend to sympathize with Australasian ideas of exclusion. Ho says il;;at America has absorbed all nationalities and progressed. He does not fitay io explain that the alien problem in America—the problem of the negroes Mid tho Japanese and the Chinese now rooted in the .States—is at once tho acutcst and most permanent of American problems. _ Ho does not see that th 0 Australian objection to a, Chinese popul.iWon i« not £o mur-h an objection to Chinese labour as an ol)jection to any lisk of intenvixturo of Chinese and ivhito l)Jood. There can be no doubt atjil! that a big Chineso population vrowld fnon mean a bigger EuVasian population. Add to that the undoubted fact that any cross between Chinese and whito is a bad cross, notoriously the worst cross of all. That is. shown in China, if tho district af M.rcuo,'where there i'ar. hcon a Portuguese colony for some hundreds of years, and so there has grown up a big Chino-Portuguese population. The Macao "Chinese" arc the h'jnm of Asia. < ()nir.'-iv;.-|->, on goreral .•^'•ounds, 1 t-.nould like to sea free inerrss of Cliii'loso and Japanese. I should like a train to i'.avo decent end satisfactory hoiise-eor-y.ints. And -here ai-e other things to !)o considered. Tint tho permanence of a white population with a strong Chinese element nin.n,ncc parallel with it is impossible. ■•Jio Uhmpßo Consul ha? full ri^bt to his "n-mons, but in New Zealand they are likely to carry very little wei>ht