The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-06-21
English Way of "civiIz1ng" Barbarians
TREATMENT OF BLACKS IN QUEENSLAND.

English Way of "Civilnng" Barbarians
TREATMENT OF BLACKS IN QUEENSLAND
The English manner of g civiliziug" the
natives of any country with which they have
to do, seems not to vary greatly either with
time locality. What they did here among
the aboriginal tribes, what they did in ireland
among "Papists." and what they are doing in
Australia among the blacks is all of one piece
The London Tablet gives the following extracts
from an Australian paper, which do not lcok
very we'll beside the virtuons depreciation of
til barbarities of the slave trade, and the duty
of England in that matter, to which we have
been treated lately in connection with DIR.
Livingstone and his labors:
"Tbe Sydney Morning Herald of the 2nd
February contains a letter from Mr.. Hevdon
describing the operations of the native police
who, says the writer in the first place are
slaves-lnothing else. They are men captured
from wild tribes sent to another part of the
country, and subjected TO the requisite drill
| When tit for the Government service thew are
paid Il thiEkl 81 per mouth, and are supplied
with rations But they are never allowed to
leave the service and if they leave it of their
own accord Gas they do sometimcs) they are
hunted down and shot, And in order to re-
eoncile them to their position, these men are
systematically allowed and even 'encour-
aged to indulge, to satiate all their brutal and
bloodthirsty passions The assertion ia SIM.
ported by horrible details, and the writer
in their dealings with the wild blacks was to
be allowed to the police, as 1t both made them
like their work and encouraged the brutality
which fitted them for it, And to a question
about the age at which it was preferred that
blacks should be captured for conversion into
police, the answer was, We don't care for
savage there is in them the better 1t is then
scarcely surprising that the influence of the
white officers under whom these men serve is
not very efticacions in controlling their ex-
cesses. Indeed, an officer of police who
4 should be lnkewarm in the destruction of the
blacks, would become very unpopular When
squatter who has had some cattle speared,
or fears that he may have some speared sends
FOR the native police, he does not expect the
sub,inspector to sit in Judgment, but to pro
coed at once to execution. Public opinion in
plood. Pr'vate persons go out to kill blacks
ape cav axa 1T Awkward words
sounds better than numbering MAUI But
the BLACKS are never called men and women
and children. ingalls, and sniggers.' and
GINS and piccaninnies," seem farther re-.
used by every inspector in his report after
attacking camp) We dispersed them in the
usual usual manner means; in plain English, We
shot and tomaba wked SO MANY men and 90
many women. killed all the little children. and
left the lot to be eaten by the native dogs /,
And distinct and per fectiy independent Wit
! CHAIRMAN he
semen OF Magistrates in one of the principal
| counties of New Sonth Wales Describes as
| follows, in a letter which appeared some DAYS
i ia.e, IN the same paper. the process of HINT
| station on the River Bowen, about forty miles
from the Burdekin, have heard from reliable
sources such accounts of brutal massacres Of
the blacks in that district, not only by the
native police, but by others calling themselves
CHRISTIAN men, as would seem almost incred BILE
-0nt stIll true. AS rule, the native police
| nPnH
cniluren bnt not SO with the stockmen and
others, az they kill all they can indiscrimi
nafely. One squatter (now in Eugland) told
me that his men, on one occasion threatened
10 shoot him for trying to protect the women
and children. The usual method adopted by
me native police is to find out the camp of
or lagoon). and attack them at break of dav.
the troopers stripping themselves of everv
th'ng mt their forage caps and cartrdg e pouch
anh belt. and leave their horses etc in cbarra
or The officer in command, and fire a yollev
into the camp, and afterwards follow ND and
snIot as many more of the blacks as they can,
ana Tn" trooper who kills the most is cousid-
cred best man by his comrades until tho
next hunt, when some of the others NAV
sn"ot :" greater number. The forage can is
kept on TO prevent the TROOPERS shootino ono
another in the scrub The native noIice
officers say their orders are to disperse,
packs wherever they hnd them, and that. as
|ney are semi-miitary body. they justified
IN putting the military Interpretation on the
word, aud to kill all they can and scatter the
rest. am assured on the best authority that
az a. the gins outraged by the native police after
the slang hter is over are in the South Kennedy
district killed by the rest of the tribe. The
native troopers get sulky aud dissatisfied If
they do not have 'chirry after the blacks
them" W '"""'se
COMMON SENSE Whom a man offers two ar
three per cent per month for money few known ones,
Will let him have it it lie well established fact thar
no man VIII" intends to pay up afford such h oh rates