IMPERIALISM AND 'COLOUR
'■'I am not, nor neier have been, in favour of bringing about in any ' way . the social and political equality of tlio white and coloured ■ races, and in so inuch as they could not so live. I, as much as any other man, am, in favour'of having the- superior position assigned to the white." 1 —Abraham Lincoln. Sir,—ln reply to Mr. Von Haast, I would like to remark that while Britain might be necessary to India, there is.no doubt that-India is necessary to Britain. India, iii the hands of an unprincipled* Power, would be a menace not only/to Britain, but to the civilised world. If the form of Empire is left as it is;- India might be, content to remain as she is. Does Mr. Von Haast think that India would submit to the degradation of being denied a voice in council halls of an Empire, in the up-building of which' her blood had been unstintedly spilt with_ that of the Anglo-Saxon ? Yet to admit her would mean our political annihilation; to exclude her would be to bring about a set of conditions disastrous to both races. Evidently the only safe course is,,to-leave things as-they, are.—l am, etC " FRANK BELL. ' Shannon.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2866, 2 September 1916, Page 7
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204IMPERIALISM AND 'COLOUR Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2866, 2 September 1916, Page 7
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