Evening journal., 1901-09-13

| Danger? When this great uninte,li-
| gent, short-sighted, warm-blooded ma
/ iuOn of savages stampedes into our an
, cient laws and policies how shall we
keep them within due limits, and yet
avoid 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
these Kaffirs are. Their notions and
desires do not coincide with our own
in any one particular. The same causes
do not conduce to grief and happiness
as with us. virtue is to them a name
iorebealance a weakness. chastity an
imported afiectation. and the most
Christian and be-missionaried of Them
all in his times of supreme emotion re-
yerts to the fetish and foul old deities
of his ancestors The answer is plain:
it 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
day! They grow like the locusts and
their business is urgent. We must
find channels for them. roads of their
own and industries Of their own if we
ARE to hold them under for another so
years.
This, I take it, is the solution. We
have to provide them with a legiti-
mate outlet for their energy, one Civ
ing scope for thought and organiza-
ton. to be a safety valve to the power
they else viii blow off into our midst
and yet not pOaching more than can be
avoided on our own fields. To be
brief, we must make for the Kafir a
walk of his own.
At home, in his kraal, the Kafhr
makes all things for his own use. save
slOp-shop trash he can procure with
less trouble and cost at the Kaffir
stores. Since the creation he has de-
veloped some slight skill in basket
work and rough carpentry, and It's
mighty little for the time he took to
learn it, His architecture is, in most
particulars, primeval; but in the build
ing of roofs he shows an ingenuity
and sound workmanship it would be
hard to excel. There are other things
he can do; he is fairly good at tilling
the ground and making the tools nee
essary to the work. He has a little
knowledge of working meta, and for
beadwork and brass-wire trinketry
you must go far to beat him.
This. then, is the solution Safe
guard to the Kaffir the work he can
do; protect him as far as necessary:
grant him mOnOpOlies and concessions
land everything else he requires in that
line. and let him supply the South
African market. and. so far as he is
able, other markets with such goods as
he can produce. Let him keep his land
Lord give him more, for the matter
of that. and keep him on itl-but let
us strip ourselves of all false notions
of our duty to the negro and resO.utely
deny him all semblance of an equality
with the white man. The world re-
wolves on the principle of the survival
of the fittest. We have spared the
Kaffir but we cannot count on his
sparing us when his turn comes. Our
manifest duty is to remain the top
dog.
Think OF IT, Already they outnum-
Der us white men by five or six to one.
If they are to be our equals under a
system Of representative government
they can be our masters when they
choose. II is then you will see what
our black brethren are capable OF. 1t
is then you will rue your false security
of old 1t is then you will win, at the
expense Of blood and death, a true es-
innate Of the man and devil behind the
black skin-LondOn Chronicle.