"COLOURED" HUSBANDS.

Taihape Daily Times, 21 November 1917, Page 2

"COLOURED" HUSBANDS.

LIVERPOOL VICAR AND BLACK AND WHITE UNIONS. The growt-h of the negro population of Liverpool, leading to the union of black men and white women, is causing alarm. Marriage between the two races is discussed in the “Liverpool Express” by the Rev A. T. Howard, vicar of St Matthew’s who writes:

In by-gone years I have married certain couples, “black and white ; ’ \ being influenced, from the point of view of “necessity”; on the part of the woman —although I always did it much against the grain. A conversation I had with a “coloured” man, the result of such a marriage opened my eyes and ended the matter for all time for me. For this man cursed so terribly his black father and white mother that it brought home to me as I never otherwise should have understood the hideous wrong that these unnatural unions wrought for the succeeding generations. As this unfortunate product put it, he was “outcast” from both races alike.

From that time, though applications have been frequently made, nothing would induce me to take a black and white marriage, not once or twice, but many cases have come under my notice where the plea has been put forward to “preserve the girl’s good name.” Probably other clergymen have the same experience. Quite recently application was made and strongly urged on these grounds. The inhabitants know well now that the white clergy of two out of the four parishes where these black sojourners most abound will on no consideration consent to couple together those who by nature are so glaringly set apart. The same may be said of “yellow” (Chinese) marriages.

Talk to any Afrikander you liTe, British or Boer, or any man wub has lived abroad, and you will hear amazement and disgust expressed in unmeasured terms, at the “criminal folly” of white women here being allowed not only to make fools of themselves, but to bring danger upon their European sisters in every tropical part of the Empire. Those who know will understand