Unflattering Opinion.

The Melanesian.

[Letter to the Editor ] I note from recent issues of “The Pacific Islands Monthly” that wide publicity has been given to the severe sentence imposed upon a New Guinea planter for his treatment of a native labourer. Might I, as a reader of your most interesting and just publication, be permitted to express my admiration of the fair stand you have taken re garding the matter. I am specially re ferring to your remarks following the article written by Mr. Vogan.

This gentleman publicly states that he is an authority on native psy chology, etc., but my friends, who are internationally-known anthropologists, do not know him.

If Mr. Vogan knew anything about the hybrid mixture called Melanesians and their extremely distant descent from the first sub-race of the fifth root race, he would refrain from comparing them with the last sub-race of the fifth. The progenitors of the Melanians suffered nearly total annihilation, through causes created by themselves.

The Melanesian racially is an ex tremely poor specimen, ranking amongst the lowest type of humanity.

He has no form of religion, he is an arrant coward, a liar to the backbone, constitutionally weak, lacking in gratitude, and an animal by instinct.

There is a geometry that applies to races and nations, an equation of their curve of advance; but the Melanesians have not even advanced to the de finition stage. Mr. Vogan certainly defends the native and does not fail continually to emphasise the fact that their predecessors were, in the dear dead days beyond recall, natives of India. I suppose I could also state, with a fair degree of accuracy, that my own race progenitors sat at the Last Supper with Christ, but that does not prove that I am a Christian or that I am at liberty to partake of Com munion with the saints.

Mr. Vogan would probably do well to commit to memory the following, especially as it is a Vedic transla tion: — “Each gain for self denies the self that knows the self is vain; Who crowns accomplishment with pride must build the whole again”

I am, etc.,

Zeitgeist.

16/1/33.