BLACK V. WHITE.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 October 1921, Page 3

BLACK V. WHITE.

PRESIDENT HARDING’S VIEWS. CAUSE A SENSATION. AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION(Received This Day at 9.40 a.m.) NEW YORK, Oct. 2(i._ Mr Harding created a sensation in the course of a speech at Birmingham (Alabama), concerning the status of the negro. Few Republican Presidents Pave ever had so enthusiastic a reception in the South as has been accorded to .Mr.l larding, hut when he began to speak at Birmingham he stirred the old civil war issues. The segregated negro section of the audience cheered vociferously. Imt the whites remained

stonily silent. Tlio I’rosideni said he did not advocate racial equity, rather he stressed the impossibility and nndesirahleness thereof, hut he said politically and economically, there need he no occasion for a groat permaiient dillcrentint ion, provided that on both sides there is a recognition of the absolute divergence in things social and racial. I would say let the black man vote when he is lit to vote, and prohibit the white man obeli he is unfit. I would insist upon equal educational opportunity for hot It tlie men and women of bulb races, bill would stand uncompromisingly against cverv suggestion of social equality, hut a question of recognising the fundamental, eternal, uncseapahle dillerences preventing racial amalgamation. There cannot be a partnership ot rates developing the highest aim of all lmmanitv. If litmianit'■ is to achieve the end which we have set for it. the black man should lie encouraged to lie t!>' best possible black man. and not best possible imitation white nnm.