Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16
His Work With an Army UnfayOrably
Compared to the Sole Efforts of
Livingstone and Others.
BRAcKETISG HIM WITH BIRTTELOT.
TAs Ein Pashs Relief Committee Taking Lofty Stand
Against the Tide Of Press Criticisms
Toward Il
TVERYoT KEEPING A DISCREET SILENCE
ny CABLE TO TIE p1sPLrcH1


LONDON, November 5.-[Copyright J.
The Stanley-Barttelot controversy shows the
Emin Relief Committee in a very bad light,
and il is their procedure which is attracting
most attention at this moment. When
Assad Faran came TO England, after making
on the Congo the most terrible charges
against Stanley's officers, the committee
kept him in their custody the whole time;
carefully lock ed MIN away from newspaper
men, and having frightened him, made him
sign declaration that his previous state
ment was false. Now the people are angrily
asking if the Emin committee bribed Assad
Farsn to retract his story.
The Pail Mall Gazette is demanding a
full inquiry in strong terms. The Star says
zhese revelations throw lurid light on the
opening up of the dark continent.
Turning Against Stanley.
1t urges that petition should be got up
no LORD Salisbury, demanding that the con-
uession which he has since granted to the
promoters of the Emin relief project should
be withdrawn,
This business" the Star continues, ''has
Htemmed the torrent of cant which flowed out
over Stanley, and will prevent its repetition
cin any future exploit. 4" The public tide here
is turning against Stanley as we'll as
Eagainst his officers. The people are COM
.paring his achievements at the head of an
tarmy with what had previously been accom-
.plished almost unaided by Livingstone, Bur
Ton and Speke. They are unearthing his
records OF hostile encounters with the ma
EIves, and they are beginning to bracket him
with Jameson and Barttelot as hypocritical
humbugs who pretend to go to Africa for
Africa's good, and then act as marauding
adventurers and bloody-minded martinets.
Inquiry VIII be Demanded.
It is becoming pretty certain tn at the up-
Rhot OF the controversy will be the appoint
ment of royal commission, or some such
body, to inquire into the whole Of the cir
cumstances connected with the inception
and execution of the expedition for the re.
lief of Emin Pasha.
Tue people are getting disguised with the
prolonged personal controversies and want
TO have the facts brought to light in a man.
ner which shall convince the world that the
truth has been told. The members of the
Emin Pasha Relief Committee, who know
good deal OF what has gone on behind the
scenes, decline to say a single word, and
have evidently bound each other to preserve
silence until authoritatively called upon to
give evidence upon oath. Mackenzie, the
leading member of the committee, told your
correspondent to-day he did not care but
ton for the press and no notice would be
taken of newspaper attacks upon the COM
mittee.
Not Afraid of Criticism.
If the newspapers thought they could
force the committee into saying anythin
they were greatly mistaken. The commit
tee knew its business, and the newspapers
did not understand the facts. The commit
tee was above press criticism and would not
be drawn out to satisfy the curiosity OF
newspaper readers.
Sir William MaeKinnon, chairman of the
committee, and Lord Kinnaird expressed
themselves with equal emphasis as to their
intention to keep silence, and told the re-
porter the newspapers could say as much or
as little as theY pleased