Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-07-11
DEVELOPMENT OF AFRICA.
How England is, Forcing n Largo
Trade--Tho Slave Traffic.

How England Is Forcing n Large
Trade-The Slave Traffic.
American, schemes, ior the extension
OF trade with Afrion have not met with
That degree of success which the most
sanguine had hoped for, says the Iron
Age. Not many years ago b promi-
nent New York merchant became
quite enthusiastic respecting the pros
poets OF Liberia, sending out sugar
mills, encouraging coffee culture, and
aiding in, the deportation Of American
negroes, but the, sO-called republic"
.aow exists scarcely in name. In like
manner steamship project which for
Il time engaged the fostering interests
OF several New York gentlemen phil
anthropically INCLINED never took D
tangible form and pissed out OF mind
But IL line OF sailing vessels from New
York TO Liberia has been maintained,
and American exports of manufactured
cotton to Africa through various chan
nels form n considerable item. Mean
whsle England is building up u flour
ishing trade on both sides of the con-
tinent, on the west coast and at Zanzi-
har, Trade with the colony of Lagos
fer the year 1887 amounted to
SI,500,0OO, and it il calculated that
the entire trade Of Great Britain
with the west coast last year amounted
to the approximate value of S2j, 900, 900
| of imports and Sl3, 900 of exports,
! comparing well with some portions OF
! India. At Zanzibar, up TO the recent
/ LII, hN IL,
coast was continuous line of British
Indian trading stations, and trading
increased rapidly to Sl0,0OO,000 per
annum, the greater part OF this being
in the hands OF British subjects. ANUn-
fortunately" as We are told by Arch
bishop Farrar, "this property attracted
the greed of certain German Sdven-
turer3," who made "bogus treaties, "
claimed vast tracts of country, and
proceeded to take possession, despite
the circumstances OF the sultan.
Furthermore, according 10 the author
ity just quoted 1.-The whole trade Of
the coast is in tho hands OF some 10,
600 British sabjects from India, in
Guiding the ivory trade, copra, gum
opal, india rubber, hide aud grain
trades These British Indians have
lent large sums of money to the Arab
ivory caravans. They have also
invested their profits in mort
CAGES on the houses and plan
tations of the Arabs feeling
quite secure under the shadow OF Eng
fish justice. The British Indians have
10000 OF floating capital employed
at this time in the ivory trade in the
far interior. and unless some decisive
measures are undertaken by the Eng
lish government this large sum must
inevitably be lost" England appears
to have become inextricably involved
by joining in an agreement with Ger
many to MAINTAIN a blockade ITO put
down the slave trade" feat some
what difficult of accomplishment where
every African and Arab trader is Q
Shareholder either in will or decd.
Clearly enough, it would now appear
the "developm OF AfricI,n what
ever this may mean, has received {
check from which there will be tardy
re covcry. II is surmi sed, however,
that traders in Zanzibar, while post
poning indefinitely the Relation OF
hopes for the commercial subjugation
OF the interiO" lake regions accessible
from this point, my give new i'm
petus to the Congo Free State and Il
efforts 10 penetrate tropical Africa
through the SoudaC. The marvelou!
achievements of Livingstone's success
sor Henry NJ. Stanley. OF whom full
advices have just come TO hand. in
vest the subject with new interest