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An Establishments Theory

Sir Sydney Olivier was governor OF
Jamaica from 1907 through 1912 and
Is convinced that he now knows
enough to advise the world how to set
tie the race problem, problem that
has come down through the ages. In
an address to the Church of England
congress at Southampton, Sir Sydney
announced some remarkable theories.
He declared that there could be no
solution of the American color ques-
ton except by resolute disclaimer
of the color line and the dogma of
race differentiation. In his South
ampton speech the ex-governor of ia
maica said:
My study and comparison OF oondi-
| lions in the United States and the West
! indies has brought me to that conclu-
sion. American and colonial politicians
and public fnen are not Exeter hall
abolitionists nor evangelical Christian
missionaries.
do not expect them to adopt the
methods of missionaries nor do sym
pathize with all their political pro-
grammes. But 1T cannot be ignored
that it happened that the faiths of the
men who 1aid the foundations for the
peaceful development of the mixed
community in Jamaica We're demo-
cratic humanitarians and above all un-
compromisinsly Christian.
Were race differentiation held to, if
must increase civil discord. When the
balance of numbers is it is in the
south in America it must tend to foster
obscure preparations for civil war and
%-yabellion. If statesmen and citizens
face in the contrary direction [ do not
say that they Wal attain Immediately
civil peace, but 1 am confident they
Will be travelling the only road to-
ward 1t.
I do not suggest that race does not
greatly affect facilities fer combination
between humans in healthy national
life. but race difference is only one
of many schismatic agencies. the So
luton of the difficulties involves disci
pline for the white as well as the black.
This liberal quotation from Sir Sgd
ney's speech is made in order that
the reader may understand the falla-
cious and obnoxious doctrines he at
tempts to preach. 1t is true that he
has worded his ideas most adroitly.
He makes no plea for amalgamation,
yet that seems the inevitable deduc-
ton from his sentences.
No greater mistake could be mad.
The fact that the white and colored
races are now living amicably to-
gether in the south is due solely to
mutual recognition of the impossible
bounds of hue and blood.
So long as the negro held to the
hope that he would ever attain social
equality with the whites, so long We're
there antipathies and antagonisms
that certainly made for preparations
for civil war and bloodshed," and
these preparations were not "obscure."
The white man holds and will ever
hold that he is inherently superior to
the black. The admission of this is in
dispensable. With it admitted, the
other vexing questions which must
arise with two antithetical nations liv-
ing side by side in the same land and
pursuing the same ideals of civiliza-
ton become much easier of solution.
Sir Sydney's theories can be of no
benefit. They may be productive of
much harm