"The Round Table"
DEALING with the African labour question, The Round Table quotes Sir Harry Johnston's prophecy that five hundred years hence Africa will be peopled by "a dark-skinned race with a white man's features and a white man's brains.'! Whether this be true or not, the writer maintains that the status of the dark man in Africa must be improved. "It is fashionable to run down 'the mission boy," but "most employers apparently prefer him in the concrete even if they abuse him in the abstract." If "the native is really to be rendered more productive he will have to be trained and taught as are workers in other countries." The general upshot seems to be "that the native in South .Africa will slowly penetrate into the higher ranks of labour and establish a claim to equality of economic opportunity with the white man." In "The Outlawry of War" it is argued that the Kellogg proposal "really aims at creating throughout the whole world very much the same conditions as now exist within the British Commonwealth," whose "members have renounced entirely the notion that they will ever settle their disputes by war." If the nations finally agree to sign this simple Treaty, it will mean nothing unless they "proceed to build up an effective pacific procedure." Under the heading "China," the origin, development, principles, and personalities of the Chinese Nationalist movement are considered. Beginning with the breakdown in 1911 of the Manchu Dynasty, when the voice of the people declared that dynasty "to have exhausted the mandate of heaven," the writer carries on the history of China through riots and revolutions till to-day. As things are, he sees many hopeful signs. There has been a turn against Communism ; China has realized that student rule is dangerous ; and she is utterly tired of militarism so far as internal affairs are concerned. With regard to the Budget, we are told that Mr. Churchill's measures involve "the complete reorganization of internal government and a serious reorganization of the fiscal system." The writer foresees acrimonious controversy. Even this Budget, however, is not perhaps the most interesting economic event of the quarter, which in the eyes of the writer is the formation of
the Finance Company of Great _Britain and America._ __
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