The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-05

ments to Her Several Colontes-Ex-
 perience in Attempting to Govern ln-
 suIar Colonies Yet Unsolved.
 At o'clock yesterday afternoon
 Loves Dickinson, a leading member of
 the famous London School of Political | Science, gave the first of series of three lectures, in the Isaac Bromley | course The subject was "Self Govern hnent in the British Colonies" The speaker was introduced by Professor Henry c. Emery of Yale.
 In commencing he said that it was his intention to sketch in general way the rise of self government in the English colonies from an historical standpoint. He spoke of the time of the American Revolution, saying that America was the first of the great colo nies which went away before it had self government given 1t. He said that the greater part of North America was left but most of 1t was not much use to any one.
 The colony of Canada after 1790 was well filled with people capable of un- dertaking self government and that they were first given it. The conflict of the two races-French and English -ih Canada was to a degree the same as is the condition of affairs in South Africa. The same jealousies are re- fected, Finally, in Canada, the gov ernments of the provinces were formed and then came the federation of these several provincial governments.
 This same thing took place in Aus taria and the same plan was outlined for South Africa, but complications have come and there is now no telling what will happen.
 The government of the colonies of the Haytian, West Indies and San Domin- go Islands was a different and difficult problem, especially because of the black inhabitants. Most of them were not fitted for self government.
 In all cases attempts had been made to govern these people but they had thus far been failures Two methods were tried. One to give the blacks self government as in San Domingo, but this resulted in internal strifes dissen- sions and massacres. The British gov- ernment had also tried to solve the problem by putting the government in the hands of the white men of the islands, but they being only about one- twentieth per cent. of the population the plan was just as unsatisfactory as the first. It was still an unsettled question.
 Our experience as gained in the south has shown that we cannot solve the problem any more than can Eng land, and now we are confronted with the Philippine situation. In this con nection the speaker referred to w. J. Bryans manifesto issued during his campaign for president where he stated that the Filipinos were perfectly fitted for self, government. The experience of England in their island colonies causes this statement to appear ab- surd and that the contrary is true The best way to govern Is still an open | question and cannot be fully answered. |
 The speaker drew the lesson that it ] is Engands idea to teach the people to govern themselves and how they tried | to bring about a federation of all colo nies. In the future the British em- pire will be composed in a way which no one now can really predict, but will, in all probability, comprise Canada, 4 Australia, South Africa and England in a sort of joint relation but the problem is still unsolved.
 The other two lectures will be given this afternoon and Wednesday after noon at o'clock, also in Hendrie hall.