THE UNIVERSAL RACES CONGRESS. I3I 



by Professor Felix Acller of New York, one of the main pro- 

 moters of the Congress, followed by " The Jewish Race " from 

 the pen of Israel Zangwill. 



The African questions come naturally under this heading, 

 dealt with by Tengo Jabavu, Mr. Blyden of Sierra Leone, and 

 Sir Harry Johnstone; while Professor Du Bois of Atlanta Uni- 

 versity dealt with the Negro in America. 



The last day, July 29th, was given to positive suggestions 

 for promoting inter-racial friendliness, beginning with a paper by 

 Baron de Constant already referred to, and ending with " Sug- 

 gestions for a World Association for encouraging inter-racial 

 goodwill," by Professor Mead, of Boston, Director of the Inter- 

 national School of Peace. 



A stimulus may be given to a more scientific study of our 

 various native races here, for every year it is less possible to 

 act wisely without knowledge. Papers on various points are 

 read at each annual meeting of this Association, and 'collectively 

 they should be valuable. A book on the lines of Mr. Dudley 

 Kidd's " Kafir Socialism," written with a less violent anti-Socialist 

 bias and a more scientific outlook on humanity, should be invalu- 

 able to administrators and law-makers here. There are already 

 works on native law and native medicine and tribal peculiarities 

 which need combining and collating. May not many of 

 our South African difficulties come from trying to force an 

 ultra-individualist civilisation on an inherent Socialist people (as, 

 according to Mr. Kidd, all the Kafir races are), and has the 

 Csesarean motto, " Divide and rule," which we have taken to 

 mean break down the power of the chiefs, always been success- 

 ful? What is the secret of the prosperity of Basutoland? What 

 are we to infer from the intellectual capabilities of Dr. Rubusana, 

 Tengo Jabavu, Mangena, the Kafir barrister, and Harold Cressy, 

 the half-caste Zulu, vvho was the first coloured man to take a 

 degree at the South African College? Many of our natives and 

 coloured people are seeking opportunities for education and 

 self-culture — ^is it wise to force them to seek it, as Dr. Rubusana 

 did, in America?* — and the white race is reported to be lagging 

 behind in that desire for knowledge which it is the object of this 

 Association to encourage. 



Sa3's Dr. Frazer : 



" Government- private property, marriage and respect for human life 

 are the pillars on which rests the whole fabric of civil society : shake 

 them, and you shake society to its foundations." 



The best men of every race unite in supporting them. Though 

 abstract justice may appeal little to the native mind, the release 

 of the Pondo Chief Sigcau, on a writ of Habeas Corpus, by the 

 Chief Justice of Cape Colony from the prison into which the 



* Mrs. Sprigg writes: " Dr. Rubusana was educated entirely at Lovedale, and 

 his degree was sent from America in recognition of his work in translating the 

 Bible ; but many educated Natives do go to America, and I agree it is a very great 

 pity." 



