Evening journal., 1901-09-13

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gent, short-sighted, warm-blooded ma
tlon Of savages stampedes into our an
cient laws and policies how shall we
keep them within due limits, and vet
iaVoid turning the guns on them? For
sure as the Hereafter, that matter will
yet call for an answer
Can we admit them on an equal foot
ing with ourselves? Remember what
1hese kaffrs are. Their notions and
desires do not coincide with our own
IN any one particular. The same causes
90 not conduce to grief and happiness
as with us; virtue is to them a name
! sslorepearance a weakness. chastity an
imported affectation, and the most
christian and be-missionaried Of them
an in his times Of supreme emotion re-
Verts to the fetish and foul old deities
Of MS ancestors. The answer is plain.
u Is written on his face and in his his
Tory: Either they will swamp South
africa or we must keep them under
But they increase and multiply every
aay They grow Ike the locusts and
their business is urgent. We must
hnd channels for them, roads OF their
own and industries Of their own If WI
are to hold them under for another "a
years.
ihls, | taxi it, is the solution. We
nave to provide them with a leeiti-
mate outlet for their energy, one Civ
ing scope for thought and organiza-
tlon, to be a safety valve to The mower
they else viii blow off into orr midst
ana yet not poaching more than can be
avoided on our own fields. To Ia
pIleT' we must make for the Kaffr
walk Of his own.
Al nome, in his kraal, the Kafdr
makes all things for his own use save
siop-shop trash he can procure with
less trouble and cost at the Karin
stores. Since the creation he has de-
Veloped some slight skill in basket |
work and rough carpentry. and Tic
/, little for the time he took to
leaIn u. His architecture is, in most
particulars primeval; but in the build
ing Oh roofs he shows an ingenuity
ana sound workmanship il would be
lard to excel There are other tbinge
le can do; he is fairly good ait tiIlino,
ne ground and making the tools nee
sssary to the work. He has littIo
lnowIedge OF working metal. and for
nead-work and brass wire trinketrv
'ou must 80 far to beat him.
lhis, then, is the solution. safe
'uard TO the Kaffir the work he can
Io' protect him as far as necessary.
rant MIN monopolies and concessions
ha everything else he requires in that
me and let him supply the sontb
.lflcan market, and So far AZ ia a
PIE other markets with such goods as
can produce Let him keen bis Iand
LORD give him more, for the matter
bhat, and keep him on iti-bpt Iet
7 strlp ourselves of all false no+ions
~ uuey 70 the negro and reso.utely 2
sns ,4i MN az semblance of an equality :
iun the white man The world re-
ives on the principle Of the survival
.le httest. We have spared tbo 4,
arlr, but we cannot count on bts =
airing us when his turn comes. mn
anllest duty is to remain the ton
lhink Of it! Already they outnum
us white men by five or six ~ ono
they are to be our equals under y
stem OF representative government "
ey can be our masters when tha,,
eose' ~ IS then you will see what
plack brethren are capable Of II
,Hsn al,, you VIII rue your false security
oiu. II Is then you will win. a. tho
=, oeise q blood and death, true es- =,
~ ~ - une man and devil behind the -
~ skln.-London Chronicle ca