The Daily News FRIDAY, JULY 20. THE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8161, 20 July 1906, Page 2

The Daily News FRIDAY, JULY 20. THE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN.

Wherever the white man of tho earth has had a " mission " to carry civilisation into the colored person's I country, he lws also carried firearms, The nigger either accepts " civilisation" or a bullet—und it is mostly bullet. All white men who have coveted the land of the colored men have, of course, been actuated by the purest of motives and armed with the most modern weapons of precision. It takos tho morest spark to set fire to the punitive train of powder. You will have noticed that various colored people at the present time are suffering for colliding with civilisation, One is treated to this sort of cable in the papers : " Besides the loss inflicted by Captain , a further six hundred Zulus have been killed." The Zulus' sin is that they are living in the country iu which they were born, are loyal to their country, and object to imported laws and conditions they do not understand. Anything that an alleged savage does not understand he fights about. He fights with an assegai or a boomerang, a bow and arrows, a spear or other weapon, only effective at close quarters. In fact, he is just a savage. His enemies fight with the Maxim guns and modern weapons of precision, including the new Eexer rifle. The Zulu is the most lusty, healthy nigger existing, and he takes a lot of killing, fio that, to either civilise him into paying a hut tax or to wipe him out, a hollow nosed bullet is used in the Rexer, the Maxim, and the ordinary common every-day rifle, which does not fire more than twelve or fourteen shots a minute, and is therefore hardly the weapon necessary to teach the nigger a due sense of his shortcomings.

* * » # Then there is the colored Egyptian person who made a bobbery the other day in connection with some officers who went to shoot game. Prom the cables, one gathered that Captain Bull, of Tantali, died of heart disease, and it seemed that it was brought about by a quarrel with the natives. Subsequently it was cabled that the natives were in the wrong, probably because all natives in contact with civilisation are always wrong, and five were shot. This method of impressing the natives with the benignity of the white man's rule is made so rospcctablo by its antiquity that there is r.o need for comment. One of the envious methods the white man has nl''.'oltins? over a native difficulty is to civilise tin; indigenous nigger with the l itlu ia.l import some other kind ■■f nigger or coolie. The African Ic -tre slaying thousands of the best pl.y.-ii 1 1 i::a f '>rril in the world, while their mines arc being worked with, played-out ro.lics trom U'.iiiia. On the score of hum mity, or s'jmothing of U nl, !he tixrtips are to

!,, ;...|iii|T|ii> 1, Iml, I,he Xafc.il nigger is to stay in lus own country—food for the wild-dogs and assvogels. These methods may bo Christian-like and humane, and civilising of course, but it is hard to see how.

The white man set',]e l in Queensland and began to grow sugar. He thought he could not grow sugar with white labor, although white men can and do perform heavy labor in the north of the hot colony as easily an any nigger that was ever boin. Tho Kanaka will probably have to go if the recommendations of the Royal Commission tlmt has recently sat on the question are given effect to. No country which permits colored aliens to come in has a light to advise any oilier country on its nigger trouble. Tho Kanaka trade was a slave trade, and t'ie Kanaka when he got to Queensland was not always a desirable person. Under new conditions his animal instincts found play, and the unwritten history of the excesses of tho islanders would make peaceful New Zealanders marvel. However, we are not going into the Kmaka slave business, or Kanaka crimes, or the reason why some Queensland sugarplar.ters should be led out and shot.

Germany has a nigger bother on in Africa, too. Germany is slaying its nigger bemuse the said nigger cannot understand German officialism. On the whole, the Herein hns been holding up his end of tho log pretty well, lint the machine will iri the end be found mightier than the muscle, and Heir Krnpp will come out on top. Now, if it is light and proper and civilised fnr the white man to revenge himself for the slaying of a white man or two by the wiping out, of .several men, black, but equal in the sight of the Creator, would it not bo equally right and proper for the black races of the world to combine in a similar wiping out, of the pale-face? It is of course argued that the nigger is an inferior person. So he is, in competition with the wiles of the white man. In most cases he is superior physically, and in nearly every case he is capable of d«ing anything a white man can do. Every timo the white man mikes a punitive expedition to wipe out a fmv thousand sav.igcs, tin: snv:igr»* who aro left leans something by fhn visit.

Kvbiiy colored race is imitative. What, the African native i.s capable of is amply demonstrated by the culture of hisb'ool relatives in America from whence, as a matter of fact, comes the " Ethiopianisui " that, is spreading uniting tbe African blacks. 'Die fact that, Ethiopians do not dwindle away under civilisation means that, it i.s a verv bad tiling to (piarrel with Ethiopians, nod that, they are capable, as wore tlie.Tips. of learning anything defensive the white man knows. Everywhere on earth the colored man hates the interfering white. The (lliinamati hates liim for poll-taxing hirti when he pokes back. Every trigger m South Africa bates every white man, but, he does not wipe him nut, because he fears bis machines. The very smallest mistake in India would lie siiliieinnt to set, the light, of revolution burning there. * • * *

Tun colored man in the past lias been mostly content to stay at borne. [Air instance, one does not. hear of an army of Ethiopians going abroad on a foreign compnign. As he stays at, home, be can't, understand why the white man should not, do likewise, and when bo can't understand it, it is forced on him at, the point of t,be bayonet or n dumdum bullet. But, if the gentleman with the pigmented skin began as a general thine to wake up after the manner of t,be " little brown man " and began to go abroad and have the same covetous desire for other peoples' countries tho white man has now, well if, would be rather bad for the white man mid his wife and thg

kiddies. He has every moral right to become civilised, to invent arms' of precision, to become Christianised, to build warships and to use the [tremendous physical energy that has not baen sapped by unnatural living, soft food, railway travelling arid stuffiness.

* # * * Thehe is only one bit of advice possible in relation to the nigger troubles of the world. If a white nation must go into a niggers' country to live, the nation must respect the age-old institutions of tho native and not try to teach him that it is wrong to worship the sun by shooting at him with a gun. The white mail is not necessarily right because' he thinks so, and not necessarily a hero because ho kills six hundred niggers who Jid not pay a tax they did not understand. If a black nation came to New Zealand and pointed a gun at us and said we must pay seyeral pounds a year far the privilege of living in our homes, and we felt aggrieved and put a -hole through the tax collector, nobody here would blame us, but if the black nation thereafter proceeded to drive all the whites in these islands into a corner where the nigger guns might do the most damage we should call that barbarism The only question that need worry the white man is " Suppose the nigger gets to know as much as I do ?"