Hartford chronicle., 1946-09-14
Imperialism For eign And Native William Harrison)
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William HarrisOn)
(Guest COlumnist

I am happy to have the oppor- tunity to resume our discussion of and it's effects.
 Everything which imperialism touches is blighted, crippled, and stunted by it's noisome tentacles. Nowhere is this fact more mani fest than in the field of education. Insofar as education means the abolition of illiteracy, it is not fostered by imperialism, because it would encourage the analysis by too many victims of the funda- mental contradictions of the sys- tenn. A docile Iaboring class is needed, above all, if wages are to be kept low and if various forms of forced labor are to survive. Hence educational expenditures are meagre. The institutions of higher learning which exist in the
 whole of Negro Africa can be counted on the fingers of one hand: Achimota College and Fourah Bey College in West Africa and Ma
 kerere College in Uganda, East
 Africa, not to mention a small teachers college (Lovedale) which is supposed to serve the needs of
 100000, Bantu in the Union of South Africa.
 Although more numerous, the
 secondary schools, whether sup ported by overseas missionary bodies or partly or wholly by the
 state, suffer from inadequate re-
 sources with which to provide in-
 struction for the large popula- tions they must serve. The effect
 of child labor in a colony like
 Kenya, for example, as Archdea- con Owen of the Church of Eng land has shown, tends to reduce the attendance in the primary schools. Moreover, under the guise
 of indirect rule propagated by the late Lord Lugard, reactionary native institutions are allowed to persist on the theory that they represent the best interests of the native peoples as whole while they really represent only en- trenched native social classes like the witch doctors whose continu- ance is "a sin against history. By undressing superstition these in- stitutions prevent it's eradication by progressive native rulers.
 Empire And Democracy . Incompatible
 I have mentioned the foregoing as background designed to bring out in bold relief Professor Leon ard Barnes contention that em- pire and democracy are incompat- ible. Not even all liberal and pro- gressive Americans are fully aware of the anti-democratic na- ture of imperialism, OF ALL I'M PERIALISM, even the American brand, as any Filipino or Haitian who has suffered from it will bear witness. Differences are only of de- gree, not of kind. Race prejudice against the Negro colonial may be less intense in Paris than in Lon don, because French imperialism depends more upon its military levies from Senegal than British does upon the Negroes of the West Indies, for example. Undoubtedly the Kensington sa- trap would deny more of the social to an Indian than his French counterpart might to al But if democratic government as embodied in uni versal suffrage is taken as the yardstick of measure imperialism is the same everywhere. We scare aly need to be reminded that universal suffrage is of the essence of political democracy.
 Under the crown colony system of government which obtains in the West Indies and in a West African territory like Sierra Leone, qualifications for the right to vote and to hold office effectively deprive the vast ma iority of the people of represen- ,ation or voice in the goverme The Massachusetts of Sam Adams, ,f the Committees of Correspon- fence, of the Boston Tea Party, that such deprival means without representation, which is tyranny.
 Furthermore, executive power is | yested in a Governor who is re- Gn M sH I