New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-03
SEES j. S. DRIFTING
INTO CIVIL WAR AGAIN
Sir S. Olivier, Ex-Governor Of
Jamaica, Says Race Different.
alton Must Be Abolished.
CHURCHMEN IN CONGRESS
Solution of the Problem Involves
Discipline for the White
Man as Well as for
the Black.

| southampton. Oct 2.-Racial and inter-
national problems replaced the sex ques-
ton I'm the discussions of the Church OF
England Congress to-day. Both OF these
problems led to rather startling utter
! ances by the speakers
Sir Sydney olivier. who was Governor
OF Jamaica from 1907 TO the end OF 1872,
: put forward the remarkable claim that
I no solution Of the American color ques-
ton was possible except by a resolute
disclaimer of the color line and the race
differentiation theory. He expressed the
| opinion that negrophoba was. in mixed
communities, one OF the most active
sources of danger.
| MY study and comparison OF conditions
| in the United States and the West
| Indies" he said, has brought me to that
conclusion American and colonial poll
ticians and public men are not Exeter
J Hall abolitionists nor evangelical Chris
tian missionaries. ! do not expect them
to adopt the methods of missionaries, nor
do I sympathize with all their political
programmes. But It cannot be ignored
that 1t happened that the faiths OF the
men who laid the foundations for the
peaceful development OF the mixed COM
munlty in Jamaica were democratic and
humanitarian and. above all. uncompro-
misingly Christian.
Were race differentiation held TO, ie
must increase civil discord When the
| balance OF numbers is as II is in the South
| in the United States IL must tend 10 fos-
] ter obscure preparations for civil war and
rebellion. If statesmen and citizens face
! in the contrary direction l do not say
: that they will attain Immediately civil
peace. but ! am confident that they will
: be travelling the only road toward It,
| II do not suggest that race does not
greatly affect facilities for combination
! between humans In healthy national life.
! but race difference is only one Of many
schismatic agencies. The solution OF the
| difficulty involves discipline for the white
man as well as the black"
! The Earl of Selborne former Governor
| OF the Transvaal and High Commissioner
| TO South Africa, who has had plenty OF
| opportunity OF studying the color ques-
! ton. told the congress that backward
I races could not exist permanently in in
dependence side by side with the civilized
race. There must. he said. be effective
control. full and complete. and exercised
in the light OF day. by the civilized race.
| II any OF these conditions should be abb
sent. he said there would be a state Of
anarchy. resulting in the generalization
and decay OF the native race. Natives. he
concluded. who were found unfit for the
vote ought 10 have constitutional means
for expressing their grievances and wants.
+. d. Morel who has devoted many
years 10 freeing the Congo OF slavery
was introduced as The Hero Of the Con-
60" He declared that the slave spirit
was not dead IN Western Europe. and
there was need Of fighting il wherever
| and whenever Il raised its head against
the vital. moral and material interests OF
civilization. He said that 1t was with
| feelings akin TO CONSERVATION that he
! had noticed the recent speech OF Lord
| Morley. bearing on the inevtableness OF
unjust and inhumane labor in the tropics.
| The acceptance of this theory would
mean that the economic development ~
the tropics could be attained only by the
subsection OF the colored races TO servile
labor. The success OF free labor in many
parts Of Africa contradicted Lord Nor
ley's claim.
Mr.. Morel in conclusion said that the
experience OF Congo and Putumayo was
beginning TO convince the governments
that without inhabitants the tropics were
[ useless TO the world.
The most striking contribution 10 thu
debate on ornaments was supplied by
Canon William Leighton Crane. who de-
scribed the present relations between the
nations as an anti-social. barbarous and
violent anachronism. Had II been case
of individual, not national, folly, he de-
clared. the laughter Of the world would
long ago have killed IT,
Sir Ernest Satow declared that the doc
trlne of the balance OF power had made
for war, instead Of peace.