RACE WAR IN AMERICA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 1514, 9 November 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)

RACE WAR IN AMERICA.

GRAVE FORECAST. According to Dr. Giddings, Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, there is a race war coming in the United States between whites and blacks which will appal civilisation. Ho mentions that there are twelve million, coloured people in Amcrica, and they multiply with great rapidity. Ho denounces the enfranchisement of the negro as a great political blunder, and maintained that political rights had been a hindrance rather than a help to the negro.

Dr. Giddings considers that the Civil War did not solve the problem of slavery, that the conditions in the South aro as bad as ever, and that the black man cannot win social equality through political liberty. "The white man," ho concludes, "considers the black man so inferior to himself that he does not oppose him or give him much consideration as a rival; but with the improved opportunities of the negro, with better education and extended privileges, he must inevitably claim a plaoe> alongside the white man as his equal. If he should be able to back up his claim on the strength of educational and economic equality, then wo may preparo to witness a race conflict compared to which the present situation is & love feast."

Dr. - Giddings's idea is that the negro should have been enfranchised gradually, according to his mental development, and in that way many problems which now vex his . condition would hay© been avoided. i