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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2922, 7 April 1891, Page 2

The London Times has published a long series of interesting articles dealing with the Negro question in America. Some of the facts related were such as could not fail to astouish any ruau but an American citizen, who is, of necessity, tolerably well enured to political turpitude of the most glaring description. The concluding article is certainly disappointing; tho writer sees no settlement of the question except by tho removal of the whole Negro population of the States to the soil of their ancestors. But this mode of settlement, leaving out of the question its morality, is utterly impossible. The American Government is not likely to attempt it, and certainly could not accomplish the task if it did. Tho physical means of transporting a population of seven millions some tive thousand miles by sea do not exist and cannot readily be created, even if the "almighty" dollar and the energy of the " almighty " Republic are enlisted in the cause. If such a scheme could be carried out, it would be a uiost cruol and immoral undertaking. It is tnanifeat (.hut the Negro can only be humanised and converted into a decent citizen by having civilised whites for his neighbours. The enemies of the race in the States maintain that civilisation is impossible to them; but this assertion is not borne out by facts. Has not the Negro made immense strides since he was transformed into a free man 1 Properly treated, he should continue to adyance. The fact remains that the two races will have to live side by side, and the terms upon which they shall do so will have to be settled. Tlie revelations of the Times' correspondent abundantly prove that the Negro is, as yet, totally unfit for the exercise of political power ; but the same statement holds good in ret'ereuce to a largo section of every white population. The danger of the Negro to the commonwealth consists mainly in the fact that he has been granted a vote, and every country in which the principle of one man one vote prevails is almost to an equal extent endangered. So long as there are unthinking men in the possession of political power the unscrupulous demagogue will continue to flourish and his country sufl'er.