Northern Weekly Gazette. — 1905-08-12 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

SLAM THE DOOR.  No matter to which portion of our world-wide Empire we may look, all have their " streak of yellow," and were it not for the heavy "duty" placed upon this most undesirable "import" by crur colonike, this "Yellow streak" would 600t11 bid fair to more than tinge the whole of the British dominions beyond the seas, with the same trying colour. In considering the Chinaman es a colonist one is tempted to ask: "Does he of his own desire and free will emigrate?" The only honest reply possible to such a question is that he does not. He is exported like any other marketable commodity; the so-called free emigration being merely a "blind," coolie traffic, though highly remunerative from the contractors' point of view, is an unwholesome thing. 17t is slavery under another name. In the most densely populated districts of China, where the struggle for existence has been reduced to an exact science, there are always to be found a body of unscrupulous scoundrels known as "labour contractors," who act in concert with "celestial "—equally so un.serupulous as themselves---eojourning in the .\ands of the " foreign devils," and these men sp. temically sweep into their greet trawl-nets all tile unhappy flotsam and jetsam of Chinese life. crle trader in human kind is a demon incarnate and the " yellow" edition is certainly not an exception to the rule. Should a wife become tired of her husband, a family, of a son, or the community generally of an undesirable unit, ttera the ever obliging contractor is called in. 11 is at all times prepared to relieve the distres Id for a "consideration." These contractors will undertake to  supply, almost upon dema. gd, any variety ( f worker. The " bosses" flier.. on the other side  of the wateT proceed to carry out the programme. Bt ig Chinese of long standing and position in the land of their adoption, they exercise a powerful sway over the destinies of their less fortunate compatriots • so powerful, indeed, that should a celestial be found bold enough to consistently defy them, his sojourn in the land--age in the land of the living !—would be brought to an abrupt termination. Shipped in a rougher manner than we ship our cattle, the Chinamen harbours no visionary ideas of an Utopia beyond the seas, and he is soon made to realise that he eaiters the Land of promise under a very ominous cloud indeed. He enters in bond, he lives in bond, and in a bond he departs. He is viewed with the utmost distrust and hatred by white and native colonists. With the native it is a question of personal dislike. With the white man it is a latent fear of his capabilities. In contradistinction to the average British colonist, be is in every respect better fitted for the bitter hardships of colonial life. He is meek, patient, cheerful-, economical, industrious and imitative. In versatility and intelligence he is the superior  of the white' colonitit re-cruited from a similar  cla-ss. HiB callous indifference to the extremes of any climate r.xmstitute another very powerful factor in his success. Against these good points, no doubt, there are many vices to be set off, but, generally speaking, the Chinaman is not one whit worse than the average white man. He is an unblushing liar, and as a man of business he is secord to none. As a petty huckster of unconsidered trifles," he leaves tl.-.e Jew far _ _ _  behind. Apart from arty special qualification.s, the Chinaman is an ideal handy man, As a social unit he is undoubtedtly a brilliant success. It must be admitted that he oocasionally displays an ability for cool and deliberate murder that is momewhat staggering; but in this it has in variably been the minder of a fellow countryman; *and as the ways of the oeliestial are an enigma, so are his deeds. The latent possibilities of the Chinese colonist are becoming a serious menace to the wbits race, hi very virtues being tho greatest source of fear, and if we in land are are to believe that our Colonial Empire ;13 to become an °inlet for the poverty-stiricken masses here at home, then in the name of wisdom, of self-preservation, let us without further delay, slam the door in the face of this insidious, sraree human entity. Let him be stamped out of Colonial life, as St. Patrick dealt with reptiles in the "Sister Isle," (Ornal).—Wilfred C. Sweeting, 4., Swainston-street, West Hartlepool.