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Show The Peril in Africa w . . -j "If the blacks should rise." Is a sentence sen-tence which has not Infrequently boon uttorod, and nerouly uttered, In Africa, snys tho New York Mall and Express. Tho white-- In that continent, conti-nent, oven in Dutch and English South Africa, are In an absurd numorl-cal numorl-cal minority, in Cape Colony Itself, tho oldest nnd best settled European province, there aro but 382.J98 whites to 2,118,437 blacks. No such disparity dispar-ity nB this exists In any part of our Amorlcan "black belt." In Rhodesia ho whites are but a handful among upward of 500,000 warllko blacks of tho stronger sort, Including tho flerco Matnbolo. in Nttta t"0 nro 73,095 whites to 80C.512 ZulnKafllra. In most of German Atrica nnd, of courso, the whole or the continent northwnrd to Algeria, the disparity is greater still. In tho Warm bail district of Gorman Gor-man southwest Africa, thero were, nt last nccounts 1,513 whlto persons, mostly Doers who have trekked there, to 10,000 blncks. Tho. other day we had nows of tho mns8ncro of a white missionary nnd his community or eighteen converts in tho hinterland of Liberia. Tho scono of this deed Is significant, If tho nows Is true, for If the black avalanche ava-lanche Is ovor let loose In Africa It will undoubtedly bo by the hand of somo bln.gk who has been inspired by thoughts of black rule nnd Indcpend" enco, such as thoso thnt prevail In Liberia. Li-beria. No such native avalancho ovor hung over tho heads of oven th6 few whlto settlors In tho Amertcnn colonies colo-nies in tho enrly day, for tho Amorlcan wilderness was never peopled by such hosts of BavagoB as fill tho African veldt and Jungle. For tho nttempt, nt least, nothing is wnntlng but tho Toussnlnt l'Ouvre-hire, l'Ouvre-hire, the determined nnd nblo black leader who can organize, tho dlvcrso nnd mutually foreign, nations and tribes and Inspire them with a common com-mon motive of revolt. No such leader Is in sight. Yet a negro King Philip, a negro Pontine, a negro Tccumsoh, tho stamp of whoso foot upon tho earth may some day bo heard In tho earthquake, is neither Inconceivable nor impossible Wo may understand tho uneasiness of South African whites over this Hottentot Hot-tentot Insurrection. Tho Hottentots nro a widespread nation. A general black Insurrection must result In hor-rlblo hor-rlblo massacres. Yet thero could bo but ono final result for It, a3 there was but ono posslblo result for tho general Indian wars in America. Tho thousands of whites, with tholr resources re-sources nnd organization, would prevail, pre-vail, and moro sternly than ever ngnlnst tho millions of blacks. |