RHODESIAN TOURIST'S VIEWS.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12680, 27 October 1909, Page 1

RHODESIAN TOURIST'S VIEWS.

Writing in the "Daily Telegraph " a tourist in Rhodesia says :— A Kaffir does not expect to be treated kindly at least not with direct open kindness which he regards, as weakness, but ho does expect to be treated justly. If h o has done wrong, and knows he has dene wrong, he will accept punishment to r wk none the worse -of his masPunish liim unjustly ami he resents it; keep your word passed to him and 'lie wall work better for you. Promise a native a hiding for misbehaviour and he must have it, if not to-day, to-mor-row or six months hence. As an illustration, I may quote the instance of a farmer who promised a big strapping native a thrashing for some misdeed. The native promptly decamped, bix months later he returned to the farm and asked for work. His former employer recognised him at once gave w£> ti W th <v cul P ri t to get to his J5I k ;, ™» n t tlvc went meekly off, and -the other boys so approved of the course of events that no farmer had a better or more contented lot Of course I realise that this will horrify many tender-hearted people at home, ■they do not understand. The man ?n U vn - 6 n d T' and when he can he invariably chooses as servant a raw native who is infinitely more tractable, than an "educated" one All the world over tho education of the native races presents a pretty prol>lem, and nowhere is it more acute than in South Africa. What is tho right system of education is no easy matter to decide. But in this coun™sTs i + i co "f' so is reeled as that whioh teaches the native to look upon work as an honest virtue, to teach him to be useful to himself and to the community, and not stuff his head is not fitted to understand. The idea of equal rights, politically and socially, is utterly wrong, and is dangerous 5h * l " I ? CeS) Whit ? a »d black, uith equal justice ; see that if a black man 1S wronged in the eyes of the law h?!+ a + 1 i m i a " ° is , givcn reparation, but to lead him to believe that he is the other man's equal in ail respects disaster wron S 1 - v ' an <* to invite