THE UNIVERSAL RACES CONGRESS. I29 



which we imagine belong to ourselves and civilisation only. They forget 

 that in nature everything has a right and a wrong side, and that it is 

 only in art you have to teach people on which side the shadow falls." 



The Chairman of the Congress was the Hon. Peniher Reeves, 

 Agent-General for New Zealand in London ; the President was 

 Lord Weardale. Honorary members and supporters hailed from 

 fifty different countries, and included twenty-five Presidents of 

 Parliaments, and the same ntmiher of British Governors and 

 British Prime Ministers. The writers of papers alone included 

 representatives of over twenty civilisations, and, where possible, 

 natives of the race most affected read papers on special prob- 

 lems. On the Honorary Committee were the following South 

 Africans: The Hon. J. W. Sauer, IVLL.A., acting Prime INIinister, 

 Sir James Rose-Innes, the Rev. J. S. Moffat, Dr. Abdurahman, 

 Olive Schreiner , the Rev. Ramsden Balmforth, iMrs. Saul 

 Solomon, Dr. J. J. McClure, and the writer. The Rev. W. Flint. 

 D.D. represented the local (Cape Town) auxiliary Committee, 

 Dr. Rubusana a section of the educated natives, and with him 

 the Chief Dalindyebo (Tembu), Tengo Jabavu, the well-known 

 editor of Imvo, was present, and read a paper ; the Rev. W. C. 

 Willoughby represented the missionary societies, Mr. Thomas 

 Searle the Women's Christian Temperance Union, and Mr. 

 Sampson, M.L.A., Organised White Labour; many individuals 

 were also present from South Africa, among them Miss Molteno, 

 daughter of the first Prime Minister of the Cape, and throughout 

 the country are many " passive " members — i.e., subscribers for 

 the valuable books and papers in connection with the Congress. 



No resolutions were passed ; the Congress was pledged to 

 no political party or scheme of reform, though the Imperial 

 Government and Parliament gave valuable assistance, direct and 

 indirect. Neither religious nor political questions were touched 

 on, but certain aspects of Government were dealt with by Sir 

 Henry Johnstone and Sir Sidney Ollivier, both of them dis- 

 tinguished and successful administrators. 



Though at present " 'tis an hour inhospitable to reason's 

 tempering word " in many parts of the world, yet the effort to gain 

 some common ground of action, some generally recognised binding 

 principle, is imperative; as the Head of Lovedale (Dr. J. Hender- 

 son) truly says, "the claims for racial justice based on religion 

 make effective appeal only to those' who submit themselves con- 

 sciously to its guidance. But racial questions are coming rapidly 

 to be the concern not only of Churches and Governments, but 

 also of the individual citizen, and demand teaching on lines of 

 ■policy and general utility, as well as of moral obligation." 

 Readers of Putnam Weale's books know how he emphasises these 

 points from a purely worldly and practical point of view, and 

 on the last day of the Congress Baron d'Estournelles de Constant 

 (member of the Hague Tribunal) read a paper on " The resi>ect 

 due by the White race to other races," surely if we are a superior 

 race, noblesse ohliyc — alas that it often does not! 



