The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-04-23
YELL
LOW PERIL
OF AUSTRALIA AND
NEW ZEALAND CURSE THE DAY
THAT ASIATICS WERE INVITED
TO COME.


a dolly of novel shape, pale yellow
and black with a border of angry
white. 1t is about as large as the
United States without Alaska, and its
name is Australia. Fifteen hundred
miles southeast more land rises out
of the water and its name is New
Zealand. The colonists of English
descent who live in both countries
spend part of their time bewailing
their troubles; the remainder in con-
demning the follies of the past.
THE yellow peril is fully developed
among u.s." declared NJ. T. HYDE, a
prominent business men from Napier.
New Zealand, who is making a tour
of the world. II find the people of
the Pacific coast bordering whether
the Chinese and Japanese shall be
made welcome to these shores, with
the chance that they may ultimately
do more good than HARM" he con-
tinued. LET me, coming from
country where such a welcome was
once given, leave warning with the
people of the coast. In the first
place let me say that no white man
can compete with the yellow man.
The Chinaman, for instance, can live
on the smell of dishrag and he can
work from 60 to 100 hours a week.
He makes labor so cheap that sooner
or later he monopolizes it. This is
what has happened in New Zealand.
The growing and sale of fruit, one OF
the leading industries on the island,
has been monopolized by the Japan
csc and Chinese. We must buy every
bit of fruit we eat from some men,
Der of the yellow race.
But that is not all the danger
We face, sooner or later, the prob
ability that one of the yellow races
will occupy the land to the exclusion
of the whites. They possess them
selves of as much property as they
can; they hold on to it In q way that
indicates, to our minds, an agree.
ment to exclude the white man from
the soil. We have grown to fear
and hate the Asiatic. 1t means dis
aster to any land to invite his pres
ence, He blocks progress; he mon
opolizes trade; he works only for
himself and his kind.
And yet the blame rests ultimate
ly on the white man. AS long as the
yellow man is given employment that
will constitute as much of an invi-
tation as he wishes. Oregon and
California will continue to suffer the
invasions of Japanese coolies so long
as they are given employment.
THE other day in New Zealand,
man who hates the yellow races, shot
a Chinaman as he went past him on
the street. The trial jury Immediately
acquitted the white man, adjudging
him insane | think, myself, he was
insane. Those who needed shooting
were the whites who patronize the
Japs and Chinese Let the employing
agencies of this country refuse work
to the yellow man and he will cease
to come to these shOres-nOt be-
FORE
Accompanying Mr. Hyde is r. B.
Hogue, formerly a Californian, and
now large landowner in Australia.
Australia has learned the lesson
of fear" said Mr.. Hogue. ''No men,
Der of any Asiatic race is allowed
to land on Australian shores. If one
is brought by ship to any port and al
lowed to escape to the interior, the
owners of the ship must pay fine
of $500. This law is rigidly en-
forced. But what we struggle most
against now are our unsettled labor
conditions.
Australia, you know, is settled by
white people in a fringe all around
the coast The interior is arid and
waste. and probably always will be.
We have always had more or less
trouble with labor organizations and
the recently passed arbitration act
has proved curse to us. Emboldened
by the recognition thus given and
fired by the speeches of fanatical
labor leaders, law and order is de-
fled; the lives of the people placed
in jeopardy. Vicious labor leaders
have taught the workingman that the
employer is his natural enemy.
The employer is vampire feed
ing on your labor and your lives one
of these fellows declared. Therefore,
no appreciation is shown for employ
ment given and the danger of upris-
inc ic oOnStaut short time ago the