BLACK AND WHITE

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 November 1923, Page 8

BLACK AND WHITE

SOUTH AFRICA'S TROUBLES. CAPE TOWN, October IS. Addressing the Orange Free State National Congress al nroonstad, Mr Hertzog declared that European, civilisation in South Africa was threatened. He knew no country with such a relatively large army of unemployed. South Africa could not remain a white man s country unless a different economic policy were pursued. English South Africans who previously had enjoyed avenues of employment closed to the Dutch were now feeling the problem of finding employment for their sons. The natives were doing the work their sons should be doing, because the foundation of the economic edifice was one on which European civilisation could not rest. Mr Hertzog argued that the remedy lay in active segregation, territorially and indsutrially, claiming that this was fair both to the black and white. He pointed out that taxation had doubled since 1915. He declared that .South Africa, unlike England, had not been able to pay off one penny of her debt since the war. It was no wonder the people were now being taxed out of the country. The salvation of South Africa lay with the English-speaking citizens, who had one future with the Dutch-speaking peoples. The Congress endorsed the Nationalist pact with the Labourites after Mr Hertzog had explained its effect.