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Show WHAT WILL BECOME OF THEM. A writer In the Nineteenth Century has this to say of a suggested "South African Black Peril:" The native jvopulntlon of Africa south of the Zambesi Is ten millions. Tho whlto population Is undor one million. Today the majority of tho natives are In a seml-savuge seml-savuge condition. But the day may como when they shall have emerged from that condition, and havo attained the degree of civilization which prevails among the negroes, their kindred in the united States. Tho process of evolution hns begun. be-gun. When it Is completed, the relatlvo position of the black and white populations popula-tions In South Africa will be what? Look to tho United States and you will find come hint of tho answer. There the two races are at each other's throat. Who will say that the Kaffir, half a century hence, will, not exerclso a similar power, socially, politically nnd economically, If not a greater, In South Africa? A similar phantom might have been conjured up In this country when the English first began their settleme'nts on the Atlantic coast, In view of their fewness compared with the Indians. What was the result? And we imagine thnt.lt will be very much the same In South Africa. A hundred or two hundred hun-dred years from now, the predominance of tho whites in that region will no doubt be quite as pronounced as is now that of the whites over the reds In the United States. |