NO MORE RACE RIOTS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXII, Issue 4309, 26 August 1921, Page 2

NO MORE RACE RIOTS.

President Harding, in a short address to the negro students of Lincoln University, said : “The coloured citizenship of America, in the* world war earned its right to be memorialised. Much is said about the problem of the races, but let me tell you there is.nothing that government can do which is akin to educational work. One -of the great difficulties with popular government is that the citizenship expects at the hands of government f.hat which it- should do for itself. No. Government can wave a” magic wand and take a race from bondage to citizenship in half a century. All . that the Government can do is-to afford the opportunity. The coloured race in coming into its own must do the great work itself in preparing fo? that participation. Nothing will accomplish so much as educational pre- ■ paration. I commend the valuable , work this institution' is doing-in that direction. It is a fine contrast to the unhappy and distressing spectacle .•that we saw the other day out in one of tiie Western States, God - grant tha,t in the soberness, the fairness, and the justice of this country we ? shall never ‘ have another spectacle like it.” f ‘

The latter portion of the President’s brief address is construed to refer To the recent Tulsa race riots.