three each in Natal and the Transvaal and two in the Orange Free State. The representatives must be Europeans, and I think it desirable that candidates should be approved by the Governor-General-in-Council, or perhaps, better still, by the Judges of the Supreme Court. The vote would be given to all Chiefs, and to a limited number of their councillors, the latter to be approved by their magistrates: these would represent the tribal Native, and there would be no tests for these. The other Natives who would be entitled to vote would have to prove their fitness by passing an educational test and by showing that they were living a civilized life. This would include the ownership of property and the adoption of monogamy. The members of Parliament elected by the Natives would have all the rights and privileges of other members. This would give the Natives of the three Northern Provinces eight members. They could not make and unmake ministries, but they could prevent neglect of Native interests." In presenting these three reforms Mr. Maurice Evans asks the following challenging question : "The people of South Africa have identified themselves with the free nations whose victory makes this result possible. We, too, have fought and died in the cause. Are we prepared to adopt the principles accepted by our Allies and apply them in the government of our own backward fellowSouth Africans?' DR. ABDURAHMAN. Just as we go to Press we have received the remarkable speech delivered by Dr. Abdurahman to the African Political Association at Cape Town in April last, on the disabilities of the coloured people and their claims in South Africa to the righting of their wrongs and to even-handed justice. It will be remembered that coloured people in South Africa has a peculiar significance, in that it means half-castes or mixed blooded Africans and immigrants. Dr. Abdurahman emphasized in his speech that the Union had meant a great setback for the coloured people both in the political sphere and in individual freedom; moreover the gulf between white and black had been "immeasurably widened." As instances of this statement Dr. Abdurahman quoted the Pass Laws in the Orange Free State, the humiliation of the railway regulations, the injustice of the Land Act, and especially the tyranny of the Trade Unions. He pointed out that organized labour which professes to be a democratic institution has lately erected a bar against the coloured people in refusing to allow them to engage in any skilled trade. Dr. Abdurahman urged the right of the coloured people to develop according to their endowments, and that in order to secure this they must organize their forces to secure both economic and political freedom. Protection Society President: Chairman of General Committee : LORD HENRY CAVENDISH-BENTINCK, M.P. Vice-Chairman of General Committee: Treasurer: E. WRIGHT BROOKS, Esq., J.P. Secretary: TRAVERS BUXTON, M.A. Organizing Secretary: JOHN H. HARRIS. Hon. Lecturer: MRS. JOHN H. HARRIS. Chairman of Parliamentary Committee: RIGHT HON. J. W. WILSON, M.P. Bankers: BARCLAY'S BANK, LTD. 95 Victoria Street, S.W.1. Printed in Great Britain by Butler & Tanner, Frome and London. PARLIAMENTARY: THE COLONIAL OFFICE DEBATE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS: Southern RhodESIA, ETC. Price Fourpence 90 OCTOBER, 1919. [The Editor, whilst grateful to all correspondents who may be kind enough to furnish him with information, desires to state that he is not responsible for the views stated by them, nor for quotations which may be inserted from other journals. The object of the journal is to spread information, and articles are necessarily quoted which may contain views or statements for which their authors can alone be held responsible.] The Presidency of the Society. WE have great satisfaction in announcing that the post of President of the Society has been accepted by Mr. CHARLES ROBERTS, who has been ViceChairman of the Committee since 1917. Mr. Roberts, who represented Lincoln in the House of Commons for many years, was Under-Secretary of State for India in Mr. Asquith's Govern ment, and is deeply interested in questions affecting the natives of India. Many will recall his able chairmanship of the Select Committee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire into the abuses of the Putumayo Company in 1913. New Joint-Treasurer. WE are very glad to be able to report that Sir FoWELL BUXTON, the eldest son of our late President, has accepted the position of Joint-Treasurer of the Society with Mr. E. W. Brooks. Rhodesia : Quarterly Mote. REPRESENTATIVES of the Society were heard at one of the sittings of this Commission appointed to inquire into the accounts of the Chartered Company and to determine, in accordance with the report of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, the amount due to it for its administrative expenditure. A statement was put in on behalf of the Society, taking exception to the Company's claim for expenditure incurred in the Matabele Wars of 1893 and 1896, and pointing out that the costs of the natives' case before the Privy Council had been borne by the private effort of the Society in spite of the Resolutions of the Legislative Council of Rhodesia providing out of the Revenue for the representation of the case of " the inhabitants and people of Rhodesia." Mr. Harris spoke to this statement. The Company and the Crown reserved their observations upon it until a later date. Mative Races and Peace Terms. MEMORANDUM ON COLONIAL MANDATES. THE Committee of the Society has had the opportunity of submitting to the "Commission on Mandates appointed by the Council of the principal Associated and Allied Powers" a draft mandate in which its views are fully set forth, the terms of which follow. Some months have been spent upon the preparation of this document, to which great importance is attached, because the principles stated are designed to secure an extension of existing beneficent elements in Colonial administration and definitely to eliminate admitted abuses. A deputation from the Society was received in July by Viscount Milner, M. Simon (France), and other members of the Commission, when Mr. Charles Roberts, Mr. Molteno, Sir Fowell Buxton and the Secretaries attended and presented their case, which they were assured by Lord Milner would receive careful consideration. TERRITORIAL. MEMORANDUM. The Committee of the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society has observed with regret that no provision has yet been made to carry out |