Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-08-28
THE RACE QUESTION:
A"" stanley Would Settle 1t If He Had
the Necessary Means.

ho" STANLEY Would Settle 1T IF He Itaa
the Necessary Means.
Stanley believes that Africa is capable
Vi sustaining large population. and
urges That steps be taken to colombo II
ne says II the subject were taken hold
VI IN earnest-if speakers in all the
large cities plead with the masses to
take the subject to heart and rich men
subscribed lew millions to start the
movement on safe and woll-considered
ines-we should be sure to see revived
ny 1879 one of those wonderful mipra-
,ions OF humanity which peopled all
ASIA Europe, Africa and America.
III d recent letter Mr.. Stanley saws:
inere Is space enough in one section
VI tne upper Congo basin to locate
uouole the number of negroes of the
ohiCeu states without disturbing q sim
sie tribe OF the aborigines now inhabit-
ing IL. refer to the immense Upper
oonSo forest country, $4,000 square
miles In extent, which is three times
larger than the Argentine Republic
ana one and half times LARGER than
the entire German emnire on,br.c;,r
224, 600, 600 acres of umbrapeous foroSt
iaho' wherein every unit of the :. 900. 600
nearly a quarter square mile of
iaho- rive acres of this planted with
bananas and plantains would furnish
every soul with sufficient Subsistence
1000 and wine. The remaining twenty
seven acres of his estate would furnish
MN with mber, rubber, gums, dye
stuHS Tor sale. There are one hun
urea and nifty days of rain throughout
'ie year. There is clear stream
every few hundred yards. In a days
Journey we have crossed as many as
thlrty-two streams. The climate is
healthy and equable, owing to the i'm
perVlous forest which protects the land
from chilly winds and drafts. All
my white officers passed through
the wide area safely. Eight navi-
gable rivers course through it.
Hills and rivers diversity the
scenery and give magnificent prospects.
10 those negroes in the South accus-
toned to Arkansas, Mississippi and
Louisiana it would be reminder of
their own plantations without the
swamps and depressing influence of
cypress forests. Any thing and every
thing mi ght be grown in it, from oranges,
guayas, sugar cane and cotton of sub
tropical lands to the wheat of California
and rice of South Carolina. If the emil
grafton was prudently conceived and
carried out, the glowing accounts sent
home by the first settler would soon
dissipate all fear and reluctance on the
part of the others.
But it is all dream. The American
capitalists, like other leaders of men,
are more engaged in decorating their
wives with diamonds than in busying
themselves with National questions of
such import as removing the barrier be-
tween the North and the South. The
open sore of America-the race ques-
tion-will ever remain an incuralle
tester. While we are ali convinced that
the NessuS shirt which cling TO tho
republic has maddenad her, and may
madden her again, it is quite certain
that the small effort needed to free
themselves forever from it will never be
made. Meantime the railway toward
the favored land will be constructed,
steamers will be floating on the waters
of the Congo and the forest land will be
closed to such emigration by tho first
come, first served"