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The Review or Reviews. 



DfCfmber 1, 1906. 



freslminst'T Gazette.'] 



The White <iheet Competition, 



Mr. GIBSOX BOWLES: "Why didn't you enter, Mr, Bal- 

 four? You're just as well qualified as Waltei- Long and 

 WyndUam," 



[Mr, Giteon Bowles intervened in the Long-MacDonnell 

 controversy to point out that the real culprit is— Mr, Bal- 

 four.] 



been too busv making holiday to find time either 

 to make speeches or to listen to them. Bishop Gore 

 has. however, taken occasion to express in a very 

 eni])hatic manner his determination to oppose any 

 attempt of Parliament to legislate on the recom- 

 mendations of the Royal Commission on the Roman- 

 ising of the .Church. He has, indeed, as a Bishop 

 spread his mantle over the clergy who are admit- 

 ted! \ breaking the law, probably relying on the fact 

 that the majoritv of Englishmen are much too 

 bi'sv about more important things to care a straw 

 what particular bib and tucker the grown-up chil- 

 dren who ha\e been ordained think it necessary to 

 wear in church. That is all very well for a time, 

 but that indifference may suddenly disappear and 

 our High Anglican friends will then be in for a bad 

 time. 



Dr. Jameson called at our offices 

 South African last month, and I was very glad to 

 Affairs. find him looking so well and in such 



good spirits. He has paid a flying 

 visit to England in connection with federation and 

 railway rates. He has yet another year of office 

 before him, if not two, unless something unforseen 

 should precipitate a General Election, in which case 

 the Doctor will probably secure the rest and holi- 

 day which he so much needs. Of the Transvaal 

 Constitution Dr. Jameson said it was as good as 

 could be hoped for. He would have preferred that 

 the establishment of responsible government should 

 lie postponed, but if it were granted it could hardlv 

 be done in a less obiectionable way. If the British 

 stood together they would have no difficultv in elect- 

 ing a British majoritv, but the chances of such co- 

 hesion on the part of the British, the Doctor ad- 

 mitted, were verv slight. All the news to hand from 

 the Transvaal last month pointed to the election 

 of a mixed majority of Boers and British, who are 

 in opiiosirion to the party of ascendencv represented 



Tlie Pope 



sni 

 the Republic. 



by the Chamber of Mines. A most probable out- 

 come of the election, therefore, is a Solomon ad- 

 ministration, depending for its existence upon Boer 

 support. 



There seems no prospect of any 

 arrangement between the Pope and 

 the French Republic. Pius X. 

 seems to be one of those saintly 

 good men who are raised up from time to time to 

 render impossible the working of the compromise bv 

 which the men of this world manage to avoid dead- 

 locks. He is the Vicar of Christ, and as such he is 

 to be obeyed. In practice this means that we have 

 to accept the ideas of a dear, good old Italian priest 

 as equivalent to the master thought of the Creator, 

 and all the affairs of this world have to be ruled 

 in accordance with the notions of a cloistered celi- 

 bate in the Vatican. The French Government and 

 the French people appear to be quite calm in the 

 ]iresence of the approaching coUision between 

 Church and State, nor will thev even be provoked 

 by the somewhat intemperate language of Arch- 

 bishop Bourne, who. with very natural esprit de 

 corps, has rushed into the arena shouting war-cries 

 on behalf of his fellow-prelates, who, after a vain 

 attempt in favour of a more re,isonable settlement, 

 have fallen into line at a word of command from 

 the Pope. The notion expressed in some quarters 

 that the Archbishop's diatribe could affect the 

 entente cordiale between England and France is 

 all fudge. The men at the head of the French Re- 

 public are much too well informed as to the real 

 sympathy of the English people to be affected by 

 the discourse of the Archbishop. 



The 



White Savages 



of 



the South, 



The news that the white savages of 

 .\tlanta, in Georgia, have broken 

 out in a murderous attack upon 

 their coloured fellow-citizens has 

 reminded us of one of the open sores of the world. 

 The usual allegation was made that some negroes 

 had outraged white women. This is on all -fours 

 with the storv alwavs spread bv Jew-baiters as to 

 the Jews having killed a Christian child to obtain 

 its blood for their religious rites. There are more 

 white women outraged in the Citv of Chicago every 

 year than in the whole State of Georgia, and for 

 one white woman who is defiled by a coloured man 

 there are io,ooo coloured women who are submitted 

 to this degradation by white men. To all civilised 

 men a woman is a woman bv virtue of her sex, 

 which is not affected by the colour of her skin, and 

 if we must lynch for such offences. I. as a white 

 man. would like to see the white brutes swing first. 

 But it seems that the real origin of the Atlanta 

 murders was nothing more or less than an attemnt 

 on the part of white labourers to kill out the com- 

 petition of the coloured men. Most of the white 

 savages who have discredited the name of American 

 were, it is said, not the real old Southerners — ' 



