New-York tribune., 1906-04-22
FLIGHTS FROM AFRICA"
Some Present Day Problems Dis
cusSed by a Nesc EagLander.

in "fhe Century Magazine for MayJ
really as weeks N WAS Sst
above The j junction of the two Niles strong re,
home pro6lem-the African in America, 1t gave
second as respecGs the negro
Plainly. no matter what IS coming to the African,
Afrcas time is coming. The Nile problem IS in
process of speedy solution; that Of central and in
S on bsnn5 s , & 9o @ 1g whetber eo a Ebv
sinia that about the Nyanzas. know ncthngl
ADMIT but hnfT the eounS beyond
coroiary TO IL. South of Khartoun-that is up the
things go, a vast region. which If drained and then
rice anG tobacco It is a mere question of water in
a country of uneveny distributed rainfall-where
sum But f i is ' not Country suitable B for the cag
not Is &c b to Be nd ana hs
Mil now be developed admits Of little question:
settles III the er1 neso & % IL; 1' 915 b
money! SO the work will henceforth go right along
the waters Of the Nile will be economical at their
the Nyanzas The gradual ' retaining an and system
suc irrigation of very considerable part of the
the sudthat wTeche 1n No @ 6 Ss
may may not impossiby. be drained by degrses and
Now vast papyrus wilderness it would then
the natives are conaernedEwRat 4ed will follow?
Siace in MS oy,,za he hen AFRICAN will at last fnd his
prove TO be. In the Soudan and Nile basin he viii
d9stral conflict with the white man If he meets cts
with any competitor. It will be the imported Asatc
African frie will not do or cannot wen DO. II
b6g r8RF %se is a9 w If he not m ad If ae
max make home in it or in large portions of it, the
field eld and @ fill il or must he freed from forced regu-
aboriginal and the Australian?
n agg qgeso s 1t Is as iateTesng [ as Its answer s.
the best Of hands-the British
THE. AFRICAN IN AMERICA.
Finally 10 African in Arnarjca What
gleam Of supposabe light does brief visit the
deaiNperhsps In the first place looking about tn me
among Africans in Africa-far removed from that
American environment to which have been accus-
tomed-the scales fell from my eyes. 1 found N.Y.
@ eT1 mes mos nnpresse9 see py a Ieaizlng sense OF the
the United States have INDUCED on this topic. We
we 96s T5 and fbeo
@Tlsts @ of New England We do SO still Having
quently hear the successor TO the abolitonist and
Uncle Tom period-announce that the difference
between the White Man and the Black Man is much
that the only real obstacle in the negro's way is
house come back with decided impression that
rance OF rudimentary facts: yet built upon It in
seifeyide1t ION trby TbyS as upon lounGaGn Stonena 3
theories go to the Soudan. and pass a week at
ieters and IN art in science and architecture, the
highest highest point Of development yet reached by any
between BET ondurman and London about measures
Black White.
oispt!aoIy great that 1t admits of measurement is
So far as I am advised. the soudanese are the
finest race Of the whole African species Physically,
their saTasa Si @ as =, whoie vel formed; and IN
Gus Yet IN them not the slightest inherent power
The instinct as well as as the dese for 6S
1s lacking Such being the indisputable fact,
ei e. Sondiuons s With starting corollary: so long
Tbj = n5 geady @ eohsiGereG m that the negro and the
and guided by the same management, so long viii
Community to which he may nnhaPpy @ 5' belong Sa
AercaH povbs eoa3 at fRe feTy root St,2 OF our our
be conceded~s0 much the woIs Or tn the fac fact! By
a me less be maintained. the principle confidently
What, then Is to be, our American outcome? The
ass0iIsfs nor at eei er bi $50 we can neither
Is comparatively simple The country viii be de
African win md his natural place in the the outcome 5 me-
i bacts VIII be recogn@zed @ and polity adopted in
react on us in America? Who now can say? The
the work done by those who were in political
control at the close Of our Civil War was work
disregard Of unalterabe fact Starting the move
IabIa ,niTry ne M ~ -i ~ S1t p[ooFGlnVe OF lnca!cu-
should have been dealt with not as a political
ity; he should have been treated a ward and de-
Pss6ni nTicg But IN spirit of blindness and
then, this is not less At best it Is some
appToximated Nevertheless it is not easV fG
one at all observant to come back from Egypt and
the Soudan without a strong suspicion thai we will
In America make small progress toward solution
Of our race problem until we approach it in less
oi theoretic and hunanitarian and more Of a
sclentihe spirit Equality results from law
and political system which works admirably when
applied TO homogeneous equals results only in |
OF late with
THE 'vELED PROTECTORATE."
At this writing with what has been done in
n he 1lda ma
Uganda fresh in mind the inDnse js rl9 s{ron "a ana
Delief that properly handled Cuba the Philippines
for the United States correct Up-todate OIdsn de
pendent-people policy, and practically work
influence under the veiled protectorata at 3nca Cl
f -51ldlheJc ana altruistc as contradistnguished
foreign Domination is'osi'izeu dependencies and |
But in effecting our results on those lines dIpIo
macy and the law Of moral and material gravita-
uon, not the big stick either ouiescenr or f1oTr-
shed, be relied on: our adnoiratior u eo IL
man who does things should be ternpered nv rtie i
SS'Sct Tor MN who is wise enough know when |
and how TO wait. Lord Cromer has been twenty
iui ~ British battalion in Egypt
Cuba has been neasurably thus dealt with The |
philippines should ! now believe from the he |
ginning have been dealt with this way If So the
traced pleasing but slightly zoe cbids iG1i Gs fancy %
Ia o = de" 9,eneratlons OF our rule will suffice TO
t 4 iplnos INTO Yankees is not likely to /
Dear Dear the test As the yeruacular has it. lit viii /
wash" whitewssr win caTse the Asistic f6 |
change his skin any more than the leopard his |
pc pe a a MALAY. and he viii not shade off into town |
meeting Yankee Why in our boundless self-com- |
schoolmarm can do much: but she cannot make |
mar white which nature decreed brown black |
adapted should. then give way 10 the largest prac-
cause alien, automatically 'yeiled''proecto
Domingo more htted for self government than the |
Philippines? But for san Domingo latter-dav |
government subject 10 foreign Influence on the |