A SOUTH AFRICAN PROBLEM

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 361, 12 April 1910, Page 5

A SOUTH AFRICAN PROBLEM

WELDING BLACK AND "WHITE TOGETHER, By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received Ajril 11, 7.35 p.m. Pretoria, April 11. The Chamber of Mines at Johannesburg gave a. farewell banquet to Lord Selborne, the , retiring South African High Commissioner. Lord Selborne, in acknowledging the tribute to his c'.i"oiv> to weld the two races together, risked to refer to the colored people of South Africa—not to the natives, but to the people partly white and partly of black origin. All laid the greatest stress on the superiority and responsibility of the whites, and with that he sympathised, but he differed from the prevailing tendency to lay all stress on the black side of the coloreds. He would lay all stress on the white side. The tendency was to drive the coloreds down to the position of Kaffirs. This was unjust, because they often had the thoughts and feelings of whites, and it was unwise, he continued, because we might one aay be compelled to face a great concerted movement on the part of the native races. He predicted that in the event of such a terrible catastrophe, the leader of the native races would be a colored man with the feelings, the character and superiority of a white man. Except where coloreds manifestly adopted the habits and conditions of natives, they ought to be raised to a condition wherein they could receive the treatment accorded the whites. Mixed marriages), however, were the l'ast things he advocated, because they were utterly base and wrong.