Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-10-09
REMARKABLE BUT SANE SHIFT.

WnGCner CQer0 mas D0Cu ally OAoh6Oi
in the views of Theodore Roosevelt,
or whether change Of environment
has enabled him to voice with great
er freedom his real sentiments we
cannot tell, but speech he recently
made in South Africa is somewhat
different from some he has made on
the race question.
ga white mans country" is what |
he now prescribes for Africa, and he |
does not fail to emphasize his BELIEF
that the ballot in the hands of the
negro race is an error. The Baltl-
more Sun thus reviews the speech:
''The burden of the speech made to
His Excellency the Acting Governor,
officials, settlers, missionaries, etc., Is
that the Kapitl plains and certain
other parts of East Africa resemble
out West twenty years ago and have
a great future before them. The
same wealth that has come West dur
ing the last quarter of century Will
come here to British East Africa so
like is the condition in fundamentals.
All that is necessary for prosperity
is that the white newcomers shall
work hard and pull together instead
of sQuabbling, class against class and
interest against interest. The coun-
try and climate suit the white man
I have visited says the ex-Presldent,
the homes of settler after settler, es-
pecially those from South Africa.
both British and Dutch, and saw large
families of children of every age who
had never been out OF the country
and were as sturdy as anyone could
wish to see them-as healthy as any
in America or the British Islands.
1 think few people outside OF
Africa realize that there is here In
Africa a real white mans country
GA white mans country!' Moth
ing is said of the participation of the
native African in the government and
development of the country. AS this
is one Of the few regions Of the world
left which is fit for new white settle
ment, it would be a crime to the white
races, said the speaker, to fail to
take advantage of it, This is to be
done with Justice to the black man.
But the black man, it would seem, Is
to have no part in the government. i
have no PATIENCE Mr.. Roosevelt adds
with people who sit at home and
pirate of self-government to people
who have not governed themselves
and never could. You must occupy 9
position of unquestioned mastery and
leadership. - The tribes here
abouts are hope1essly incompetent to
better themselves or to utilize this
country to advantage without white
leadership and direction
''This is the common sense of the
situation, expressed by the former
leader of the Republican party of the
United States. Just as the new com
monwealth of South Africa, with tht
approval of the British Parliament
has disfranchised the negro in hi:
own country, so, ex-President Roose
welt appears to suggest, the govern
.ment of East Africa should exclude
the East Africans from participation
in voting. Wherever the white rae
settles, there, in effect, the govern
ment should be white. It should b.
just and even generous to the coloret
races, but it should not thrust upol
them voting rights for which they ar
, untitled. This is the fair inferenc
: from his address at Nairobi. The ex
Presidents travels seem to have op
'ened his eyes to the absurdity of tn
ballot in the hands of the incompeten
negro. Observation has taught hin
something. At least, this is his viey
of the case as presented in Africa"