St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-01
WARS HORRID FRONT
It Is Raised in Africa by the
Anglo-German Block
ade.
The Dark Continent Rent
Asunder and Desolated by
Cruel War.
TpaffickePs in Human Flesh
Still Despoil the Populous
Lake Districts.
The Wave of Social and Moral
Progress Has Been Rolled
Back.
Snecial Cable to the Globe.

Special Gable to the Globe.
LONDON, Aug. 31.-Leading English
politicians outside of the ministerial
government regard the utterances of
the North German Gazette repudiating
the Emin relief as government under
taking. as another one of Prince Bis
marck's schemes to get Lord Salisbury
to pull his African chestnutS out of the
fire. The English people, at least, are
beginning to see that the Anglo-German
blockade OF the Zanzibar littoral is
even more than blunder; that it is a
disaster. Owing to the astuteness of
Prince Bismarck and the supineness of
the British foreign Office, England has
been harried and cajoled into rash and
costly enterprise from which, sooner. or
later, 81 @ must perforce retire without
satisfaction, honor or reward. AS the
primary result of the action of the
blockading feet on the east, the entire
region of Central Africa, and from the
banks of the Zambezi to the borders
of Sahara, and from the Indian ocean
to the Atlantic, is ablaZe. Uganda,a ter
ritOry from which Stanley years
ago hoped that light might
eventually stream forth which would
brighten the entire densely populated
lake regions, and inaugurate a new
era of prosperity and peace, for
equatorial Africa, is rent aSunder and
desolated by civil war. The Arabs, in
stead of being ''pulverized" by the
blockade, have been gOaded into saw
hnctilifu RI onutbinU an6 nuQrU-
thing European, and the slave dealers
have become more aggressive and inso-
lent than ever.
TRAFFICKERS IN HUMAN FLESH
still sweep over the populous districts
of the lake country and the Congo and
Nile basins, and carry off the unarmed
and defenSeleSS inhabitants without let
or hindrance. A large market for the
sale of negroes has been opened on the
coast since the beginning of the block
ade, within sight of the blOckading
squadron, where an enormous number
of slaves change hands daily. The
blockading sQuadrons have failed to
capture any slaves, save the 250 taken
by the LeipZeig and recaptured by the
Arabs. No contraband of war has been
seized. In fact, the blockade is an
utter fraud. Amongst those ''myriadS of
day by the heroic labOrs of Livingston,
Cameron, Stanley and others, profound
distrust of the white-faced foreigners
has taken the place of that confidence
plant of slow growth in the breast of
the saVage-which was so happily in
spired in the heart of Africa years ago
by the sagacity and humanity of the
pioneers of civilization on the Dark
Continent. All the newly opened path
ways of commerce across the tropical
beltof the peninsula have been killed"
Trade is ruined. The wave of social
and moral progress has been rolled
back. Civilization has been diScredited
in the eyes of the black men. For the
first time in centuries EngliShmen have
been
INsULTED AND sPAT UPON
in the streets of Zanzibar. The once
community of BaDyans in that city
the Venice of East Africa-who have
for generations been the merchant
princes of the seaboard north and south
of the island. and the hackers of the
great mercantile houses, native
and foreign, have been beg
CARED and driven penniless away
to India, Mauritius, and Reunion. Ad-
vices from the scene of action indicate
an outbreak of Mahomedan fanaticism.
A Mahomedan feeling has manifested
itself at Zanzibar and any fanatic might
bring about crusade at moments no
tice. That the slave trade has nothing
to do with the present condition OF
things is fact well known to every
trader and government official in East
Central Africa. The object of Prince
Bismarck is to punish the insurgent na-
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means of the blockade, if not more vio-
lent measures, and he has succeeded in
drawing the English government into
the same net with him. English action
has begun to be identified in the African
mind with that of the Germans, and
EngIishmen are regarded by the black
races as helping the Germans to regain
their lost position and as formally COM
mitted to regular campaign by land
and sea upon the aboriginal tribes. The
suppression of the slave trade is longed
for by all EngliShmen. but the present
crisis is hardly the time for continuing
to Join in combined action of any kind
with Germany, whose zeal in slavery is
generally looked upon as merely cover
for much deeper paSSiOn-a desire to
re-establish her authority and regain a
footing, and revenge the check she has
board. Bismarck feels that Capt. Wiss-
mann can not accomplish this without
the aid of the British officers, and to
conciliate the English, the North Ger
man Gazette admits in so many words
that the German-African policy has
heretofore been a mistake, and should
be in line with England's, and that DR..
Peters expedition for the relief of Emin
Bay is also blunder, as it might clash
with
THE SCHEMES OF ENGLAND
in Central Africa which Stanley set out
to accomplish. Between now and No
vember all sorts of schemes will be
drawn up and presented to the public
as the land bill which Mr.. Balfour is to
introduce for Ireland. Some of them
will bear the stamp of semi-authenticity
in that they will contain suggestions
which ministers have considered, but
the others will be wide of the mark. 1t
is we'll therefore to keep in mind that
the cabinet is not engaged just now In
the solution of the Irish question. No
detailed measure is before it, and
though some of the principles of legis-
lation have been accepted, their appli
cation mas not been discussed. What
has been agreed upon is really very
little. Agrarian legislation must pre-
cede local self-government. The object
OF the agrarian legislation must be to
unity occupation and ownership, to
make the tenant his own landlord. A
wholesale purchase of Irish estates in
all four provinces. such as Mr.. EGlad-
stone proposed, must not be thought of;
but compulsion must be largely used.
the difficulty being to invent a principle
or to draw line which will not estab-
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