commission of inquiry into and how to quiet that country with its disagreeable reform association made up of and and john and university and other more interested in other people s business than in their own i appointed it did it stop their mouths no they merely pointed out that it was a commission composed wholly of my the very men whose acts were to be inquired into they said it was equivalent to a commission of wolves to inquire into committed upon a nothing can satisfy a cursed englishman and were the fault frank with my this visit had a more fortunate result than was anticipated one member of the commission was a leading official another an official of the government in the third a it was feared that the work of the commission would not be more genuine than that of innumerable so called by local officials but it appears that the commission was met by a very of awful testimony one who was present at a public hearing writes men of stone would be moved by the stories that are being unfolded as the commission into the awful history of rubber collection it is evident the were moved of their report and its bearing upon the issue presented by the conditions in the state something is said on a page of this certain were ordered by the in the one section visited but the latest word is that after its departure conditions were soon worse than before its coming � m t lo p k i i only what h me � � � p lo king s character they could not be more so if i were a a peasant a they remind the world that from the earliest days my house has been chapel and combined and both working full time that i practised upon my queen and my daughters and them daily shame and that when my queen lay in the happy refuge of her coffin and a daughter implored me on her knees to let her look for the last time upon her mother s face i refused and that three years ago not being satisfied with the stolen spoils of a whole alien nation i robbed my own child of her property and appeared by in court a spectacle to the civilized world to defend the act and complete the crime it is as i have said they are unfair unjust they will and give new to such things as those or to any other things that count against me but they will not mention any act of mine that is in my favor i have spent more money on art than any other monarch of my time and they know it do they speak of it do they tell about it no they do not they prefer to work up what they call ghastly into offensive object lessons whose purpose is to make sentimental people shudder and prejudice them against me they remark that if the innocent blood shed in the state by king ii y v t king s were put in and the placed side by side the line would stretch miles if the of his ten millions of starved and dead could rise up and march in single file it would take them seven months and four days to pass a given point if together in a body they would occupy more ground than st louis covers world s fair and if they should all clap their bony hands at once the crash would be heard at a distance of � it makes me tired i and they do similar miracles with the money i have from that blood and put into my pocket they pile it into egyptian they carpet with it they spread it across the sky and the shadow it casts makes twilight in the earth and the tears i have caused the hearts i have broken � oh nothing can persuade them to let them alone meditative pause well no matter i did beat the anyway there s comfort in that reads with mocking smile the president s order of recognition of april the government of the united states its sympathy with and approval of the humane and benevolent purposes of my scheme and will order the officers of the united states both on land and sea to recognize its flag as the flag of a friendly government possibly the would like to take that back now but they will find that my agents are king s not over there in america for nothing but there is no danger neither nations nor can afford to confess a blunder a contented smile begins to read from report by rev pf m american missionary in the free state i furnish some of the many incidents which have come under my own personal observation they reveal the organized system of plunder and outrage which has been and is now being carried on in that unfortunate country by king of i say king because he and he alone is now responsible since he is the absolute sovereign he himself such when our government in laid the foundation of the free state by its flag little did it know that this j concern under the guise of was really king of one of the most heartless and most rulers that ever sat on a throne this is apart from his known corrupt morals which have made his name and his family a in two our government would most certainly not have recognized that flag had it known that it was really king who was asking for recognition had it known that it was setting up in the heart of africa an absolute had it known that having put down african slavery in our own country at great cost of blood and money it was a worse form of slavery right in africa j with evil yes i certainly was 