The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-24
THE CURSE UPON HAM.
NEGRO PROBLEM HAS BECOME 4
 GREAT ONE IN SOU1H AFRICA.
Ambition of KafIir GrOws-Forming Unions and Societies and Starting Legislation

Agitation for Votes and Against Glass
 Legislation.
 south Africa has thrown aside the
 mask and presented itself in it's true
 colros. It used to be dear, lazy old
 country, with little work and big pay
 for it; but it has suddenly come for
 ward as the home of many problems,
 all crying urgently for an immediate
 settlement.
 Of these problems perhaps one of the
 biggest is the Kaffir In the past he
 has fallen through many schemes for his betterment, and the missionaries hearts that he has broken, to say noth-
 ing of the political economists and so-
 ciologists', are beyond numbering. He
 Is half a blessing and half an aff1iction,
 but for the affiction no cure has yet
 been found adequate.
 He is a patient. simple fellow, capa-
 ble, like other wild animals, of domes- tication and training. He can work,
 and sometimes does work. Occasionly
 he learns a trade and labors at it in
 loWliness of heart, not daring to com
 pete with the white man; but more
 commonly he is contento to turn his
 strength to rough labor such as an in- telligent ape might accomplish, and let the higher flights be,
 | What he may yet do is a question of the future; in how far he is to be al- lowed to enter the market of trained labor constitutes the problem in chief.
 Up to the present he has shown him. self unambitious. He finds his destiny
 in service and obedience; and the rule which has best suited him is a benevo- lent despotism. It is word among the farmers that the less you descend to your Kaffirs the more they will hold you in esteem. I heard conversation once between an old colonial and new arrival on the stoop of an up country hotel The new arrival, after the man. ner of his kind, was laying down the law and the colonial was rebutting his differences with considerable energy.
 T don't agree with your native pol icy" said the new arrival. You seem to hold them a little dearer than your dog, little higher than your horse
 Well, not exactly" replied the other; Pm not one of your negrophilists.
 Without doubt the KafIir is glad to be relieved of the responsibility of thinking for himself Where his duty consits in carrying out an order he shows himself an honest and trustwort thy servant but where he finds a measure of responsibility devolve upon him he goes all to pieces. You may trust a Kaftir to take your horse to be shod, but not to judge when the horse requires shoeing and to choose between shoes and plates.
 But this is not state that will last. Up till now the Kafiir has burned his own smoke. There will come the day when that smoke will incommode a whole white people unless the proper (and only possible) precautions be talk en. And we are thus confronted neces- sary to precautions are.
 Already the Kaffir is chasing the edu- system and the practical Already he is pushing his re- markable men to the front and they, bless their hearts, are forming unions an societies and editing newspapers and agitatng for votes and making class legislation difficult for the men that men them well. These are but the | forerunners of a new, abnormal. super i fcially civilized race of splendid vital | ty adaptable morals and no principles whatever.
 We have heard a lot of blither (and perhaps, little sense) about the vel ow danger" but what of the Black Danger? When his great uintelligent, warm m-blooded nation of 'avages stampedes into our ancient avs and policies how shall we keep hem within due limits, and yet avoid urning the guns on them? For, sure IS the Hereafter, that matter will yet all for an answer.
 Can we admit them on an equal foot ng with ourselves? Remember what hese Kaffirs are. Their notions and esres do not coincide with our own in ny one particular, The same causes 10 not conduce to grief and happiness s with us; virtue is to them a name, a weakness chas stity an imported affectation, and the most 'hrlstian and be-missionaried of them l in his times of supreme emotion re- erts to the fetish and foul old deities f his ancestors, The answer is plain; is written on his face and in his istory: Either they will swamp South frica or we must keep them under But they increase and multiply every ay! They grow like the locusts and leir business is urgent. We must find Eannels for them, roads of their own nd industries of their own if we are ) hold them under for another fifty | ears. This, Itake it, is the solution. We ave to provide them with a legitimate ltlet for their energy, one giving | ,ope for thought and organization, to | 3 a safety valve to the power they else ( i'll blow off into our midst, and yet ! ot poaching more than cn be avoided V l our own fields. To be brief, we ust make for the Kaffiir a walk of his c VII. | At home, in his kraal, the Kaffir akes all thinges for his own use, save 0D-ShOn trash he can DrOc1Ire with l