UNION WITH MONGOLIANS.

Waikato Times, Volume 97, Issue 15270, 21 June 1923, Page 5

UNION WITH MONGOLIANS.

WHY DREAD IT? SYDNEY PROFESSOR'S THEORY; . United Press Association. (Received June 21, 10.30 a.m.V SYDNEY, June 21. Professor Griffith ' Taylor, of the Sydney University, lecturing at the Millions Club on " Ethnological Problems, 1 ' asked why we were so horrorstricken at any suggestion of marriage with Mongolians. If it were necessary to admit oultured Mongolians Into Australia in future why dread it? There, were Asiatic peoples of precisely same races as ourselves, and though the result of union would be a half-caste race it would be in no way inferior to either of. the parent races. The "White Australia" policy was very sound in the early stages of the young Commonwealth, but it would not be a good thing for Our grandchildren to have made bitter enemies of the yellow races. He asked thinking men to realise that the admission of a small proportion of Asiatics to Australia might not bo a calamity. He pointed out that more than half of the people of Europe Were of Asiatic origin, and closely allied to the Northern Chinese. Experience had proved that, given tittle cnoughj the different nationalities could mix and produce a S&tisfactcry progressive nation.