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of judgment, since it leads the natives in certain 

 districts to consider themselves the equals, or 

 superiors, of the white men visiting the country. 



Time and experience have taught Englishmen 

 throughout the world that the only successful way 

 to rule natives is by firmness tempered with justice, 

 compelling them to feel a certain dependency upon 

 their white associates. Beneath the skin of a native 

 lies the heart of one born to be ruled by a superior 

 hand, whether it be that of his own kind or that of 

 an alien race. Kindness is too often interpreted by 

 them as a form of weakness, familiarity breeds con- 

 tempt, and equality between the white and coloured 

 races will eventually end in disaster. 



It is with the latter terrible problem, a demon 

 yearly increasing in size and significance, that the 

 whole American nation is faced to-day, nor can any 

 man say what will be the final outcome of the great 

 racial upheavals which are bound to arise at some 

 future date. Slow, methodical, behind the times, in 

 the onward rush of civilization as we are to-day, 

 England, and Englishmen alone, are those who can 

 still successively rule the native races upon earth. 

 Hence the secret of success in the colonization of the 

 vast Empire which is to-day ruled by the population 

 of a small island kingdom. 



Perhaps the one point on which the Americans 

 display more judgment in the treatment of natives 

 than is the case with many Governments of the old 

 world, is in the matter of so-called religious teaching. 

 As a rule, little is done to try and convert the natives 



