Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-29
I0ORLD NEWS
FROM LONDON TOWN

Il London, October 2S.-Drastic mea-
sures have been adopted by the Ger
man government in the hope Of set
ting the vexed native problem in the
Southwest African Protectorate.
BY order of the governor the fol
lowing three regulations have now
come into force:
First, natives are, as general rule,
in future prohibited from acquiring
rights over or titles to land. They
can acquire such rights or titles only
with the sanction of the governor
Secondly, natives are in future as
general rule not permitted to possess
or keep animals for riding purposes
or big cattle. Permission to keep such
animals must beobtained In each
single case from the governor. Third
n, leach native is required to be in
possession of a passport.
According to the general regulations
the governor permits natives freedom
of movement in the colony, but, when
important reasons demand 1t native
can be forbidden to remoe out of his
district, and passport. without which
a native cannot travel from one part
OF the colony to another, can be re-
fused him.
A special authority, termed the ma
T. tive commissioner, is appointed to
supervise the natives, but the rights
of supervision is also given to civilians
farmers and employees, and, indeed,
ito eery white man as SUCH"
These regulations fulfill to some ex--
tent the demands advanced by the
German Colonial party. which urges
that the natives have by their attitude
toward the government forfeited to
the latter all rights to the soil OF
Southwest Africa.
The Pan-Germans- are delighted
with the regulations, which, they say,
will enable the real colonization OF
the protectorate to be proceeded with
!, LII earnest.
+ There is no chance of white labor
being intgoduced into Southwest At
RIGA, for the government has decided
to admit only settlers who have suf-
ficient capital to start fairly large
farm. The possibility of a serious
scarcity of labor is, therefore, likely to
become acute, and the "Windhoek
Gazette complains already of a sus-
picious moement among the Hereros
toward the English frontier.
tracing considerable attention in It.
ally at present, as public opinion is
alarmed at the drain which it con-
stitutes upon the male population Of
Southern Italy. Yet, according OF a
i very interesting report drawn up by
Df. L. vfllaro, who has been commits
stoned by the Italian govellSnent to
investigate the condition Of the Italian
emigrant, in some parts of the United
\ States the poor Italian laborer's lot
Is not such that the Calabrian peasant
need envy.
DR. Villari points out that the fore
man is practically an autocrat, and
seldom beneolent one. maintaining
discipline by the stick or the revolver,
and usually backed up by the COM
pany which employs him. He de-
.scribes the so-called peonage, which
exists in some places. by which the
foreman lock up the workmen at
night SO that they cannot escape, and
have them guarded by armed watch
men and 'shadowed' by detectives OF
the worst stamp. The account which
the author gives of pustice as meted
out to the emigrant deserves the at
tention of the American authorities.
Still. in spite of these things, the tide
of Italian emigration continues to set
steadily towards the United States,
while the italian Red Sea Colony at
tracts pr NimA no one. Tunisia is
more pq the Argentine Re
!. .pablis a Italian state.
lilo, the Spanish
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