prksidknt's address. I I 



the point of view of other races involved. It is not inilikely 

 that such investigation will reveal the fact that Chinese, Japanese, 

 Indian wnll not readily admit the claim, whatever may be 

 acknowledged by the cannibal aborigine. As a matter of fact, 

 the Chinese are 'often deeply conscious of an absence of certain 

 Eastern virtues from our Western social system. It is at least 

 a question open to argument in some phases, and we must not 

 lose sight of the affirmation that the infusion of Eastern and even 

 of African blood in European veins is one predisposing cause 

 of the development which has resulted in our present civilization. 



Too much is sometimes made of a i)hrase like that of 

 Kipling's concerning East and West. There i? a sense in which 

 Occident and Orient may never meet, but when Kipling is read 

 aright they are found capable of travelling in the same direction, 

 and the peril and difference are not so great as when an unthink- 

 ing philosophy makes them eternally different from each other. 

 His ballad really teaches that the elementary virtues are the same 

 the world over, and the balance is often very delicate as between 

 the claim of these and the distaste of other factors. His picture 

 of the Brothers-in-Blood has surely a counterpart in brothers 

 whose blood is unshed, which awaits discovery and exploitation. 



Yet whatever may be argued, there are certainly elements 

 in our white civilization which we prefer to any other, and which, 

 because of their intrinsic worth, we do well to guard ; but the 

 question of relative superiority while affecting our relations 

 with Eastern peoples in one degree, to a much greater extent 

 enters into the relations between European and Bantu or Negro 

 peoples. The sense of superiority is often accompanied by a 

 feeling of repulsion, and seems to be so overwhelming as to 

 admit of no sort of moral control, and proceeds to ignore 

 wellnigh every claim which the other race niay have to treat- 

 ment based on fairness, while the innate consciousness of that 

 race that, though at present debased by its history and environ- 

 ment, it has the capacity to rise and develop is treated as a pre- 

 sumptuous dream. 



The clashing forces are in operation, and if science may not 

 be able to elaborate any system of final adjustment of the 

 differences, it does demand the recognition of the known facts 

 of the situation, and the application of the laws f)f the case so 

 far as they can be ascertained. 



The facts present themselves in various phases in different 

 parts of the world — (a) in Central Africa, %vhere at the earlier 

 stages of contact no question of social equality is presented and 

 no democratic jx>litical rights are considered; {b) in South 

 Africa, where the social and political advancement of the native 

 peoples is pressing the difficulties forward with ever-increasing 

 urgency; (c) in the Southern United States, where the two 

 races, in more nearly equal numbers than anywhere else, and with 

 theoretical equality as a political basis, have found at present no 

 solution satisfactory to either side; (d) in Spanish South 

 America, where we have such a near approach to a fusion of 



