The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-11-18
4 Paris Letter.
Regular Correspondence.0
PARIS, France, Oct, "a, 1882,

PARIS, France, Oct "a, 1882.
Mr.. II. NJ. Stanley entertain ned at lunch
con on Saturday party of fourteen repre-
sentative gentlemen, including NJ. de Braz-
"a, Sir Owen Lanyon, M. Rabot, the presi-
dent of the Geographical Society, Colonel
John Hay, the emlssary of the Sultan OF
Zanzibar, and Mr.. j. G. Parkinson. Tao
conversation was peculiarly interesting in
asrnuch as the points in dispute between
Mr.. Stanley and M. de Brazzs were amply
discussed, both gentlemen expressing their
views as freely as their respective natures
permit. Mr.. Stanley was strong in his con-
viction that the object of the Association
internationally. under whose auspices he
has established trading stations on the
Congo, is exclusively humanitarian, and
that everything that is calculated to fright.
en- the natives must necessarily initiate
against the success of the scheme for open.
ing up Central Africa to European civiliza.
ton. Mr.. SANKEY'S object has been and
by paying them fair price for their labor
and commodities to make them feel that
they have a strong personal interest in the
presence of tie white man NJ de Brazzs's
object has been simply to obtain cesslon
OF territory for his adopted country,
France. AS it is d ulte evident from Mr..
SANKEY'S straightforward narrative that
the native chiefs had not the slightest con-
ceptlon of the meaning of the document
to which they are supposed to have append
ed what is thought to be their signatures,
the cession Of the territory is absolutely H.
lusory, and the first Frenchmen who, on
the faith of this suggestions treaty, at
Tempt establish themselves on the north
ern bank of Stanley Pool will infallibly be
massacred France will then have an ex-
cuse for making an expedition for the pur-
pose of avenging the deaths of their coun-
trymen and all the labor that has been en-
Ployed by Stanley in his thus far success.
full attempt to inspire confidence will haye
been used in vain. No wonder that the
great explorer is lrritated at the object to
which he has devoted the best years of his
life being thus frustrated simply IN order
to give an empty satisfaction to French
national vanity. If the French were to be
the only or even the chief sufferers the
subjects Of other countries, however much
they migh, deplore the inJudiciousness Of
the step taken, would have nothing to say
in the nntter. But the animosity which
has been already excited against them will
surely extend 70 the pioneers of ciri'tT7'loH
to whatever nationality they may bel...
Mr.. Stanley has striven for years to incul-
cate in the aboriglnes an absolute respect.
for the word of white man. But where
he has laboriously taught them TO expect a
friend, they will IN the future look for enc.
mics whose only object in exploring their
country Is to take away from them their
land. If the French were to maintain their
rights by force of arms they would, for the
idlest imaginable object, get themselves
into serious complication with all the Eu
pean states which have representatives on
the Congo; while if they were afterwards
to abandon claim lujudiclously made in
their name, they would hear Of their flags
to use Mr.. SANKEY'S graphic phrase--he /
ing employed as loin cloths by the native
chiefs. Mr.. Stanley and M. de Brazza
are personally out OF this dispute. Mr..
Stanley, intent only on his mission of carry
ing civilization into the heart of the Dark
Continent, looks with natural horror on
any attempt made from any quarter to frus.
trate his great design. NJ. dc Brazza IS am
bilious Of carrying the flag of his adopted
country as far as possible into the wilder.
ness, dreaming possibly of Younger
France which shall bear down lis
name to future ages, and hoping to achieve
by diplomacy the fame which his rival has
acquired by indomitable determination and |
pluck.