The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-11-09
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IN NUMBERS OVER II VSIirII itH
THE UNITED STtATE3 c sS
SOUTH AFRICA K Sss as 81 ss
Census Statistics. !.

Building up a Great White Natf01iI
on the Dark Continent nj yVESefe
Whites Refuse Manual Iiab ,sS
In the midst of the North African
turmoil all England Is discussing
figures of the last : South 4 1Afrfcans
census which seems to he prophets.
a black South Africa. Following ~
frank discussion OF the pr0plani
by the Johannesburg copfesponds Isn't!
of the London Mail: 4. Sa-5Ss;s s5 t+5tS ,zsSs
Some of the STATISTICS revealed bys
the census are ominaAs. Cpnt asst
ed with the figures OF the Is Oh cen;
sus they reveal tendencies which
must cause the gravest anxiety.
! In the Cape hich iss an
area more than five times the siza
of England-the white male popuIaA
tion has decreased by 16 ,825 In thass
seven years, a. percent tage dacraaaSS
Of 5.2S. But the natives ann col.
ored males increased by 54,34es I'm
the same period, InT 1904, Ehes White
population Of Cape formed 24.0ss of5
the total populations. !. - Today it ia
only 22.75 per cent OF the total pen
ulation. And this after more than
two centuries of white element Ssa4
Taking the whole union nf South
Africa, the white population I'm
creased by only 161, a19 I'm the Iasts
seven years. But the native and COLI
ored~ population increased by 82d,-S
456. In 1904 the black and brown
races formed 78.42 per cent of the
! total population of the Union. To-day;
they constitute 1885 per cent. n n
the Union Of South Africa today
there are only; 51,336 male whites
more than there were seven years
ago. But thre are 336, 6,039 u more
males in the native and :icoloEed pop:
ulatfon. ..'~,.'r r'.% &-+sS6 .235sE
These census returns, remember
do not include Basutoland, J Bechuaif4I
Hand or Rhodssia !; in ch sbi iss
people far ontntm bar the viii sst,S ssS
must 1t be. forgot ten that Cha al
rate among the blacks isI decreasing !,
and that in years to come their per-
centage increase will still grow more
! ! rapidly. The whites In South Africa;
are not holding their own today.
They are falling back. It is a terias
dency which usually becomes more
rapid the longer it lasts. ,4 .S - 3Sss5y:
Why Whites are Losing zI .:3t
The hites are losing ground be-.
cause the whole history Of white coI-5$
oniZation in South Africa has been
record Of famous attetnpt To-
build up white nation upon a, basiss
OF cclored labor. *. .'< sss:.
| For generations the black faDuYs
policy has ruled. Today we ara, pc
ginning to see the effects Of that pol
icy Back in the fiftiea OF the saT.
enteenth century, Van Riebeek, the
first Dutch governor of the cape 96fi
Good Hope, advocated the isnportas3
ton OF Chinese labor for the garden
establishment under the shadow on
Table Mountain. In all the record&
Of Dutch administration one finds
only one high official who pleadaa
for the importation Of white settlers.
instead Of colored settlers. the
| Dutch introduced the slaves. The
English in Natal brought In Asiatlssi
coolies--so that today there 81 are
| more British Indians ttkan- tee ~.
the garden colony of South Africa.
Chinese for the Rand mines and
when they were sent away. 1arger
numbers Of natives imported from;
Mozambique. 80 s
| The agents Of South African arn-
ployers still scour half q continsnts
for black laborers. Whenever a
shortage occurs the cry goes mn TOR;
more colored workers. One wonders
what would happen In Lancashtre f
the millowners brough. In few
hundred thousand Chinese cor Imvs
dians to work the looms But THE
has been South AfFica's policy for
years. Color is the most desirable
qualification for the worker. And
the irony of it all is that the very
mon who are bolstering up the syg3
tenn are always talking largely about
the Great White Nation Witch ~
being built up in South Africa. Great
Black Nation, II you like Bnt n0E
white while present methods Iaa&
NOT white when the census returns
read as they do today. js
A Curious Phase. 3s39
One of the most curious things if
this land of curious arguments til
that with all it's cheap black iat50rsts
lives largely upon the fo6dstns6s
produced by expensive white 1gbaK
thousands of miles oveY, ttas Y8 fs6sfHhs
Africans will be heard declaring fllgA
white farm laborers are innposalhi0
because they are too oxpenaiva. Ant