The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-13
BR1rA1N's RACE PROBLEM.
The Color Line as Rigidly Maintained
 as in America.

Throughout the whole British empire, wherever the white man is confronted by the black man en masse. the preju- dice against the latter is bitter in the extreme.
 The theory of equality. the man and brother" doctrine. however beautiful it may appear on paper, is absolutely un- workable in the practice of everyday life. We rule our dependencies-India South Africa. the West Indies, Ceylon, Australia, the Straits settlements-by a rigid enforcement of the superiority of the white man. And this is inevitable; and it is as necessary as it is inevitable
 We should not hold India for day did we not realize and act up to the well-proved and absolutely undeniable fact that the white man, in all essen- tials, is immeasurably the superior of the black.
 Of course. to the ignorant, untraveled sentimentalist this is appalling; and he will Indignantly deny the truth of my assertion. To many an untraveled cockney the black man is as good as, if, indeed, he is not better than, the white man.
 But to the initiate. to the minority who know, as opposed to theunthinking majority who do not know, the sup pression of the black man is a stern duty. Nothing, surely, is more remark able than the dislike and distrust of the black which is invariably felt by the white when he encounters the former in the mass There must be a reason for this,
 Carlyle and Froude-the latter to me personally-both pronounced the eman- cipation of the slaves in America a very mixed blessing indeed. And certain it is that in the old days the condition of things between white and black was in- finitely happier and more desirable, sa- fer and more natural than it is to-day.
 For one Legree there were a hundred owners who treated their slaves as friends more than servants.
 In India, of course, the line of de- markation is necessarily very rigid. We are in a minority and if we are to keep the upper hand it is absolutely es- sential that white supremacy should be enforced, even at the swords point.
 It has to be remembered that the diff ferences between white and black go so deep and are so intimately connected with the subtlest physiological pro- ot fn In with them would be fraught with dan ger to the whole human family. And they cannot be done away with; they lie too deep; they are part of the race.
 Some years ago there was great public meeting held in one of the West African colonies. presided over by the governor. At this meeting a native-a K. c. M. G.-clad in the white waist coat and swallowtails of western civili- zation, delivered a powerful and elo- quent oration. After 1t was all over friend of mine congra tnlated him on his splendid effort
 He sighed, quaffed a glass of Pomme- ry, and then said: "Yes, and yet do you know I often feel that one day I shall throw it all off, put on the loin cloth of my fathers and rush back into the forest?'
 can assure you that poor Grant AL lens "The Rev. John Greedy" was based on solid fact and a deep knowI- edge of colored human nature. Howev- CT brilliant the veneer of his civiliza- tion, the black man remains forever black man. East is east and west is west, and never the twain shall meet"
 We are loud in our condemnation of the methods employed by the southern CTS of the United States in punishment of the offending negro. I quite &C., knowledge that burning an erring ne- gro alive is a horrible method of deal ing with an evil-doer: but though we English do not usually resort to such extremes, yet without doubt we treat our colored fellow subjects in manner which would not be tolerated in the heart of the empire.
 Within the last seven years I myself have seen the thumbscrew applied, with the full knowledge and consent of British authorities, to 8 thieving na- tive; and in West Africa the methods adopted by whiteo fficials are frequent ly cruel in the extreme. We in Eng land say that the black man is in all respects the equal of the white
 If you go to Bombay, one of the dain- tiest jewels in our imperial crown, you will find that not even the greatest In- dian prince is allowed to put so much as his face within the doors of the By cuila club or the Yacht club.
 Some time ago a distinguished colored cricketer was staying with the govern or of one of our great Indian provinces The governor wrote to the secretary of a certain club and asked that this cricketer should be put up as an hono- rary member. The reply he received ran as follows:
 My Dear Lord -: have received your Excellency's letter. If your friend chooses to come in his turban and take off his shoes and wait at table with his brethren, he can enter the club. Not unless."
 When Lord Reay was governor of Bombay he gave a large dinner party, to which he invited certain very high class native gentleman. This gentle man he introduced to an English lady, saying: Twill you take Mrs. So-and- so in to dinner?" The lady at once left the room, accompanied by her husband; the Anglo India has not even yet for given Lord Reay for his innocent sole- cism.
 Sometimes. I own. this preildice can