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Identifier: ourholidayinafri01whee (find matches)
Title: Our holiday in Africa
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Wheeler, W. W. (William Webb), b. 1854
Subjects: Wheeler, W. W. (William Webb), b. 1854
Publisher: (St. Joseph, MO : Press of Combe Printing)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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olony, Orajige Free State, Natal and the Trans-vaal, with a Protectorate over Rhodesia, which may, at some-time, become a part of the Union. The Boers have a ma-jority of the members of the House, but as no laws can bepassed without the concurrence of the Senate, the Legislationmust be satisfactory to the English. The present Governor isLord Gladstone, son of the late Premier of England. Thereare many serious problems for the Parliament of South Africato solve, one of the most important of these is the care, regu-lation, education and direction of the negro race. The pro-portion of negroes being about fifteen to one of the whites.The increase of the negroes is very rapid, compared to thewhites, and the relative number will continually be gettinggreater. Formerly this increase was kept somewhat in checkby the continual warfare of the different tribes, but since theEnglish govern the country these wars are not permitted, andtheir numbers are rapidly increasing. 149 OUR HOLIDAY IN AFRICA
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SOUTH AFRICA NATIVES In some parts of Africa where the natives have been civ-ihzed and enhghtened, it is claimed that there is much discus-sion on the subject of Africa for the Africans. It has been,stated that the negroes emigrating from the United Statesto Africa are preaching this doctrine. There are only aboutone and one-half millions of whites in all South Africa, not in-cluding British East Africa and West Africa. They couldnot hold this country if the millions of natives were armed,educated and had a leader who could hold the various factionstogether, a condition which is not likely to occur in a thousandyears. In the study of geography in our boyhood school dayswe were taught something about the nations being uncivil-ized, half civilized, civilized and enlightened, and we confessthat we never realized what these terms really meant, untilcoming on this trip, and here w^e have seen all the above men-tioned grades of humanity. There is much complaint in South Africa about the sca

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