Sir Sidney Olivier certainly knows
what he is talking about. In the
Island of Jamaica, where he was gov
ernor for five years, there are about
800,000 colored people and only 20,000
whites and yet there is absolutely no
friction between the races. Jamaica
is a British colony and the govern
ment is just. Colored men enjoy ev
ery civil and political right which
white men have and there Is no color
line.
Among other things Sir Sidney said:
"My study and comparison of con
ditions in the United States and the
West Indies," he said, "has brought
me to that conclusion. American and
colonial politicians and public men'
are not Exeter Hall abolitionists nor'
evangelical Christian missionaries. I
do not expect them to adopt the meth
ods of missionaries, nor do I sympa
thize with all their programmes. But
it cannot be ignored that it happened
that the faiths of the men who laid
the foundations for the peaceful de
velopment of the mixed community in
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Jamaica were democratic and human
itarian and, aboye all, uncompromis
ingly Christian. i
"Were race differentiation held to it
must increase civil discord. When the
balance of numbers is as it is in the
South in America it must tend to
foster obscure preparations for civil
war and rebellion. If statesmen and
citizens face in the contrary direction
I do not say that they will attain im
mediately civil peace, but I am confi
dent that they will be traveling the
only road toward it.
"I do not suggest that race does not
greatly affect facilities for combina
tion between humans in healthy
national life, but race difference is
only one of many schismatic agencies.
