We hope that newspapers here, in spite of natural tempta-
tions, will not make the mistake of trying to teach Americans their business. It would be only too easy for British newspapers to point out how the carefully organized system by which negroes are deprived of their electoral rights in America has at last festered into a sore which could no longer be borne. It would be only too easy to harp on the text that, as America took the lead in instructing the world upon the rights of subject nation- alities, she should also bo first to make those rights real, and allow no difficulties, however great, to stand in the way of letting an alien, discontented, and race-conscious people within the Union enjoy the self-determination they demand. Good advice in such circumstances helps not at all, but rather aggravates the trouble.
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