Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-12-28

waukee have decided that something
must ba done to reduce the output" 1t
might as we'll be in -four as in every
thing else, we suppose, but reducing the
output" means not only less to eat and
wear for more men, but less work and
money for more men, and more money
for fewer men only.
ALL the states south of the Potomac
have been memorialized by the Southern
immigration association to make appro-
priations for the encouragement of i'm
migration, and the Georgia Legisla ure
has already appropriated $4,000 for es-
tablishing a state bureau to attract capi.
tai people by advertising the resources
and natural possi ibilties of the state.
We may venture to remark that the ex-
hibition of little more tolerant social
spirit down that way will prove an unex-
pectedly drawing card. There yet re
mains a vast, undiscovered country there
to be developed.
alton of labor, which adjourned at st
Louis Saturday, proved to be a much
more single-minded and manageable
body than similar gatherings of Knights
have been. Besides, il seemed POSSESSED
of more common sense and Americanism.
Still, some radical mistakes were made
notably the creation of a general strike
fund and the endorsement of non union
boyoOtts which have done so mu,h to
weaken the Knights. The federation will
now take up the eight-hour movement IN
earnest and project successive meetings
to be held mulsaneOusly, over the coun-
try until June /, 1890, when a general de
mand for the short day will be made Dy
the associated trades.
GEORGIA promiyes to take good step
forward in the matter of providing pub
lilo school facilities. The state house of
representa- has voted an extra appro-
priation of $lG5,OOO for 1889 and
1880, 600 for 1890 1t is believed that the
feet will bs to give four months of public
schools in the country next year, instead
of three, and of extending the school
term TO FIVE months in 1890. In the
cities the average of the school year is
much longer than in the country, and
there is not so much ground for com
l..
her public school system will be worthy
of her, but there is an earnest movement
IN the rtate for an improvement. Let Il
really good beginning once be made, and
the results will be so apparent that a
great impetus will bo given To the work.
THE letter which, according to the cable,
has been received by Major Rumble, at
Suakim from Osman Digna Is curiously
inconoIusive. he writer declares that
hs has Emin PaEha ana white man,
name not mentioned. According to one
report this white man is identified ia
Stanley by some rifle oartridges; accord
ing to another, by paper known to have
Oaman Digna has Stanley and wishes to
exchange him for Suakim, why was any
doubt left on the subjectr The man who
mentions Emin Pasha by name in let
ter could just as easily have mentioned
Stanley If he really had him. Knowing
his Importance, he would naturally do 80
if he wished to use him as a hostage.
The reports thus far published are by no
means self explanatory. Go the theory
that the white traveller is Stanley, they
imply eooentricities in Osman Digna's
character that are not conducive to the
reputation for common sense which
ought to accompany such world wide
celebrity as he has achieved.
THE DARK CONTINENT.
History il continually epeatiug itself
In the days OF the Roman EmpIre it wNs
popular saying that if man wished TO
hear any thing that was new and strange
it WAS to Africa he must turn. That
dark, mysterious land, as it seemed to the
Roman and Greek is the one portion of
the ancient world that has remained
practically unchanged. To-day, as in the
past, it 10 to Africa that civilized Europe
is looking, and the African future politi-
oally speaking, is as inscrutable as the
oountensnce of the Sphinx which looks
upon the stranger from its dessert home.
In the North, Egypt is unsettled and
erumbling; it's credit among nations ex-
hausted and it's government, through
misrulo and oppression, slowly sinking
into decay. In the South there IL per
petual warfare between the Zulus, the
Beers and the English warfare varied in
reaults, uncertain as TO its future and
with small honor for the victors.
Around the fortidcatious of Sunklm the
English forces are now gathering, and
upen the fate of the little Arab town may
depend the continuance or fall of the Eng
iish Ministry. And somewhere in the re
cesses OF the African forests is the intrepid
Stanley, and the whole civilized world
awaits with anxiety the news of his death
or OF his safe return. Nor is it only in
the political world that Africa Is an OBJ
ject of interest and anxiety. The religi-
oss world, under the leadership of Car
dinsl Csvigerie, Archbiship OF Carthage
and Algiers, has organized crusade
against the African slave trade whioh Is
likely to stir up the nations more than
the question Jf governments; prestige
and the acquisition of new territory
The address delivered IN London IN July
last, the cardinal missionary related some
OF the evils of the slave trade as he him.
self has seen them. He spoke of whole
regions depopulated, of thousands carried
away into slavery, aud being abe to dis,
tinguish the roads 70 thu coast by the
lines of bleaching bones which lined tn,
highways. In one place he described
near tie village OF Uirji, so many of thcs,
xretched slaves had died that the hyena'
would no longer eas the bodies; they were
sick of human flesh. A the natural re
suit of this and similar addresses th'
European powers have made preparations
to combine their forces az sirst th'
African slave trade, Pacific messuret
are worse than useless in deSliBg with tn,