In the course of a lecture delivered in England by Mrs. Annie Besant in 1912
on "The citizenship of colored races in the British Empire",
while condemning the race prejudices of her own people, she brought out a fact
which will be interesting to my readers, especially to the Australians.
She says, "In Australia a very curious change is taking place.
Color has very much deepened in that clime, and the Australian has become
very yellow; so that it becomes a problem whether, after a time,
the people would be allowed to live in their own country.
The white people are far more colored than are some Indians."
In the face of this plain fact is it not time, for their own sake,
that the Australians should drop their cry against yellow people
and induce their Parliament to abolish, or at least to modify,
their immigration laws with regard to the yellow race?
Australians are anxious to extend their trade, and they have sent
commercial commissioners to Japan and other Eastern countries
with the view to developing and expanding commerce. Mr. J. B. Suttor,
Special Commissioner of New South Wales, has published
the following advertisement:
"NEW SOUTH WALES. The Land of Reward for Capital Commerce and Industry.
Specially subsidized steamers now giving direct service between Sydney,
THE PREMIER COMMERCIAL CENTER OF AUSTRALIA, AND SHANGHAI.
Thus offering special facilities for Commerce and Tourists.
NEW SOUTH WALES PRODUCTS ARE STANDARDS OF EXCELLENCE."
Commerce and friendship go together, but how Australians
can expect to develop trade in a country whose people are not allowed
to come to visit her shores even for the purposes of trade,
passes my comprehension.
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