THE RACIAL PROBLEM.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9187, 12 April 1910, Page 7

THE RACIAL PROBLEM.

A GOVERNOR-GENERAL'S PREDICTION. (By Electric Teleghaph—Copyright.) (Per Psess Association.) PRETORIA, April 11. Tho Chamber of Mines of Johannesburg gave a farewell banquet to Lord Selbournc, Governor-General, who. in acknowledging the tribute, said efforts were being made to wekl the two raccs. He wished to refer to coloured people in South Africa, not the natives, but the people partly white and partly of black origin. All laid the greatest stress in tho superiority and responsibility of whites, and with that ho sympathised, but he differed from'tho prevailing tendency to lay all the stress on tho black side of the coloured races. He would lay all stress on the white side, and tho tendency to drive other coloured races down to the position of Kaflirs. It was unjust, because they often had tho thoughts and feelings of whites, and it was unwise, because we might one day be compelled to face a great concerted movement- of the native raccs. He predicted that when such an event, such a ' errible catastrophe, occurred, the leader of the native races would be a coloured man with the feelings and character and superiority of the white man. Except where coloured raccs manifestly _ adopted habits arid conditions of the natives they ought to have been raised to a condition wherein they could receive the treatment accorded to whites. Mixed marriages were tho last things ho advocated, because they were wrong.