to develop upon their own lines, but there were always Englishmen
living in that pale, just as in the same way they found Europeans
living among Natives. Sir George Davis in describing this policy wrote
that it was the intention of the Government to set up a separation
between English and Irish, intending in time that the English should
root out the Irish. If they changed the Irish for Natives they would see
how the illustration would apply. A policy more foredoomed to failure
in South Africa could not be initiated. It was a policy that
would keep South Africa back, perhaps for ever. (Hear, hear.)
What would be the effect of driving these civilized Natives
back into reserves? At the present time, every civilized man
-- if they treated him properly -- every civilized man
was becoming an owner of land outside native reserve, and therefore
he was an asset of strength to the country. He was a loyalist.
He was not going to risk losing his property. He was on
the side of the European. If they drove these people back into reserve
they became our bitterest enemies. Therefore, he viewed anything
that tended that way with the gravest suspicion. Again, in this Bill
there was not sufficient distinction between those Natives
who tried to educate themselves and the ordinary raw barbarian.
They were all classed under the word "Native".

He came now to what was the main object of the Bill, and that was:
to do away with the squatting evil. Why was there a squatting evil?
Was it the fault of the Native? (An hon. member: No.)
Was it the fault of the law? (No.) They had got the most stringent
laws concerning Natives of all the laws in the whole country,
in the Province of which his hon. friend (Mr. Keyter) was a member.
He did not think anything was more surprising than when they came to look
at the increases in the native population in the Orange Free State.