The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1911. SOUTH AFRICA.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 25, 14 September 1911, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1911. SOUTH AFRICA.

At the Universal Races Congress a speech which made a deep impression was that by Mrs Alfred Macfadyoii, whose theme was the position of white women in South Africa in relation to black men. In old days the white won en were absolutely safe; they ,ve • still safe, in places where the natives had not come into contact with the whites. If elsewdiere they were less safe it was because the old moral sanctions had been broken down by the ft lienees of the We.-t. 'I he peril was in part the price exacted for the treatment of coloured women by white men; in part, the result of the deliberate debauchery of the African people by the sale of drink and in other ways. Mr W. 13. Rubusana, the first native member in the South African Parliament, urged that drink should not be imported into South Africa. It would'never become a white country, for the native was there and was going to remain. There was no “black peril” in South Africa, but there wore isolated cases. If there was a black peril there was equally a white pezil, Ini they never heard tiie native’s case in the Press. All that the native required was no favours, but equal opportunity and an open door.