Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-10-11
IL stanley is the white pasha and is

IL stanley is the white pasha and IS
working his way northward toward Con
lokoro and Cmdurman, tho fate Of the
nahdi is sealed. A tyrant of his kind
will be deserted by his troops at the first
lash of arms. and Stanley Is no mean gen
.ral. 1t may be reserved Tor him TO COM
oete the work which Wellesley was una
Die 10 accomplish and to avenge the death
Of Gordon. If this should prove TO be his
destiny. and II this was his ODE tive
point when he left England, how admra.
bly, the secret has been kept There is
aothing incredible in this conjecture
The opening of uatorlal Afri "A one OF
the most fertile populous sections OF the
world, to civilization and trade, involved
TWO prior conditions-the overthrow Of
he slave trade and he extinction of Mos
lem intolerance OF ,he foreigner. The
mahdi was ia tyre Of both. Ie is not
known to have b. n slave trader him
self, but he'was the ally of the slave
traders, and in one sense a protector OF
their nefarous tratic. OF the savage
bigotry OF the ancient Mos lem he is one
Of the few surviving representatives. He
believes in destroying Giaours because
they are Giaours. u he lets them live, it
Is in order that he may subject them TO
indi2nity and humiliate their religion In
their persons. The time has passed when
civilized nations thought it their duty to
go 70 war to propagate n religious faith.
But the time has not passed when spirited
nations held 1t to be a solemn duty to res
cue their citizens from the clutches of
barbarans. And If this is the errand on
which Stanley is bent, this country, at all
e ents. will W sh him Gotspeed.
The destruction wrought in Central
Africa by the slave stealers within the
past five or SIX years is appalling. In re-
gions where Livingstone, stanley and
Cameron saw large popuati nS no human
inhabitant car now b. found. Most of
them have been captured or slaughtered,
and remnants of tribes have escaped into
other districts. Along three hundred
miles of the Congo, between Nyangwe
TO Gleerup and Len, have depopnlated
abOHt $4,000 S ,uare miles of territory.
The numerous tribes whom Stanley FIRST
saw have become slaves or i'm greatly de-
peted numbers wander through the for
ests FAR from the river. About 10, 90
square miles of the rolling pTaires west
of Tip,o lib home at Kasongo have been
utterly drained of their people About
20, 900 square mil on the western head
waters OF the Congo are NJ longer q prof
table field for slave hunting. In the
Very region where Livingstge died and
where his heart was buried. extending
southeast from Lake Banweclo. and en-
bracing about $4,000 square miles, the
Arabs, we are told by Giraud, have COM
pletely rayaged the country And from
all these centers OF devastation the paths
OF the destrOyers leading to the slave
marts and shipping points may be raced
by the bones of the victims who fall Ivy
the way. 1t cannot be possible that the
civilized world will much longer permit
this colossal crime of the century to add
to its murderous results without taking
earnest measures TO put stop to it,
A disgraceful scene took place at Castle
Garden few days ago which deserves the
severest censure. Two hundred emigrants
from sweden had Just landed from the
steamer Hecla and were Immediately
seized upon by the agents of rival railroad
lines. They were pulled about and hauled
and iostled as if they were so many cat 10
that needed prodding. Their Away or
ders were torn out of their hands by the
railroad hirelings. Their baggage was
smashed and lost in the confusion. Fam
lilies were separated and bjected to all
kinds of indignities, merely becau there
had been a quarrel between the members
of railroad pool" and each agent was
trying to get the bulk of travel over his
own line IL Is only short time ago that
Representative Ford's investigating COM
mttee exposed the abuses ~ Cas- lie Gar
den, and 1t was thought and hoped that
the publicity given to the arrogance of
transportation companies in their treat
ment of emigrants, woul check their ra-
pacity, but it seems that it has only sharp
ened their greed. a more summary method
of bringing these railroads t. proper re-
spect for law and decency ought TO be
adopted to protect innocent men, women
and children from their rapacity.
The late Richard A. Proctor, it appears,
had no faith in the modern system of
weather guessing, based on the so-called
science of planetary meteorology," or
the appearance of sun spots. Some years
ago while storm-bound at Davenport,
Iowa, the professor was interviewed by
the editor of the Democrat, and reference
being made to that subject, he said: "0h,
that is all humbug; you might as we'll try
to tell where the largest wave or the
greatest white cap will rise during a
storm in mid-ocean, as to locate storms by
observing the position of the planets or
the size OF sun spots. 1t cannot be done.
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