The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-09-14
Stanley L, King Of Congo.

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According to telegi aphic dispatches
and other information Mr.. Stanley ia
disposed to act on his own account on
the banks of the Congo. The ex-re-
porter of the New York Herald aspires
to found dynasty. The idea is not
quite impraetieable, and we feel GER
tain satisfaction in seeing former
journalist take up the sceptre. Thrones
have been occupied by sons of adj
vocates and inn-keepers, like Berna-
dotte and Murat; by former sub-lieu-
tenants like Bonaparte; by petty bour-
geois ike his brothers; but so far we
have never seen newspaper reporter.
1t was reserved for the nineteenth CEN
fury to show the press as becoming a
nursery of kings. From the day on
which the Sacred College should have
proclaimed Pope some Don Margotts,
journalism, which it has been the
fashion to call the fourth power in the
State, will rise two steps in the ladder
and will become the second power. In
the meantime Stanley is actively en-
ploying the money of geographers to
purchase his crown, Neither does that
cause us any vexation, for the misad-
ventures of geographical societies do
not affect us beyond measure. If we
are to believe kilograms from Am
sterdam, Stanley is signing treaties
with the petty kings on both banks of
the Congo. At least he signs them;
as for The African monarchS, as they
never learned to write, they make %
mark at the bottom of the parchment.
We must acknowledge that Stanley l. is
acting very correctly from diplomatic
point of view; his treaties are drawn up
in French, which, as well known, is the
diplomatic language, and are counter
signed by his lieutenant, named Walk,
who probably exercises thefunctions of
Keeper OF the seals on the banks of the
Congo. One of those treaties that
passed with King Jongo de Selo, recog-
nlzes the sovereignty of the Comite
d Etudes du Haut Congo; that is to say
| with Stanley. After that promising
commencement, the treaty STIMULATES q
series of privileges to Mr.. Stanley an6
the committee. % The right to trade
! and reside in the country. ~ Obliga-
tons to furnish laborers, etc. In re-
turn for which Mr. Stanley and the
| committee engage to pay to Jongo and
| his descendants an annual pension of
two pieces of cloth. A similar treaty
/ was passed with the King, or king, of
Manyanga. One of Mr.. SANKEY'S aids
de-camp was thus able to say, with
little adaptation of the facts: I'VE are
now master OF all the country between
Manyanga and Stanley Pool" Those
were probably the treaties alluded to in
/ dispatch from Lisbon, which states
that they have caused some surprise, as
Stanley represents no constituted gov
/ eminent. Stanley is, inded, only the
representative of an international geo.
graphical association, but it was prOba-
| bly, for that reason, and to meet obiec-
tiOnS, that he fastened to form a Gov
| eminent of his own. As chief of his
own Government he can make annexa-
lions, and later on he will get his Gov
eminent and his anneXatiOns recog-
nized. 1t is said, besides, that the new
King has no idea of making his subjects
| happy in the usual manner-that is to
say, by granting them constitutional
liberties, As a former journalist, he
] hAOHo Nudb ClIGSC. oIS WOIbii5 ttilu ISClS3
no doubt, certain contempt for the lib
critics of the people he defended when
he was part of the people himself, A
letter we have before us says, in fact:
STANLEY is of passionate and violent
disposition, accustomed to command
despotically, and treats the natives of
the Upper Congo as wild beasts. His
Zanzibarians, besides, are armed with
breech-loaders, which have a most per-
suasiYe power, and he exercises the
rights he claims with revolving brutali-
ty. Why an old negro chief was
asked, did you sell your territory to
StanleyP He gave you scarcely any
thing for it and he sells it very dear to
others I am afraid that is true said
the old negro" That IS how empires
are founded by fear; and Stanley has
only followed the examples of history.
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