The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-04-12


pity exists among these Afr1cans In their vii
F! lages such sights are common. The children
are brought up TO witness executions every few
days, and soon become 20 hardened that nothing
moves them-abyoiutely nothing. They do mot
know what compassion Il.
"And yet these things are what The Congo
Frss stste solemniy pledged itself to put . stop
to In lS65. That pledge to Europe, TO the world
| has been most shAmefuIly broken The Congo
| Free State 10 in the hands Of the BelgiAns who
have mot the strength. who have not the courage
to put an end to slavery, cannihaiixm and say
agery.
ssThe Congo Free State Is in hand and glove
with Tippoo Tip. the great Arabian slave raider,
the head of al the slave raiders and worse than
that, the Congo Free State itself buys slaves
"Were the state to say TO the tribe that slavery
must end, and that to end IL the state would buy
the slaves on condition that no moro be taken.
that would be the thing. But the state does NOT
do that, and its present course simply helps "a
supply slave market.
sThen, too, as have said, the Congo Free
State encourages Tippoo Tip-dines him and
wines him, while he carries on his faids and de-
populafes the country. You can follow his
bloody and fiery trail through the heart of the
country by the bones OF the dead and the black
ened ruins OF the villages. The estimate that
every tusk of ivory brought to the coast costs
five human lives is . low one The cost il
greater.
"And yet the Belgians dare not stop his muir
deroue course. One officer told Tippoo lib TO
90 no further down the river, but Tippoo lib re-
piled that be and his 5000 Arabs would 60 and
come as they liked, and II they chose would
send the officer and all his station down the
river.
.one brave man resisted Tippoo TIb-and Pm
glad to give his name-walter Dean. He was .
6re, clean-cut fellow, who obeyed orders. They
sent him to stop the Arabs. The bloody devils
tried to drive him back, but he turned his
Krupp guns on them and blew eighty Of them
70 hell.
.Dean stood by those guns till all his ammu-
milton was exhausted, and but three men were
leit with him. Then he took the breeches from
the guns, sunk them in the stream, and wan
dered through the brush for thirty days, with
scarcely any food but berries and bugs.
"Did the Free State approve. No; when Tip
poo lib complained, the state blamed Dean, and
yet he was - true and brave man - you win
see.
"And the people in England. when they hear
OF such things talk of the cruelty Of the soldiers
and meet in Exeter hall and pass foolish resoiu-
tons.
II tell you. nothing but guns appeals to those
devils You must rule them or they will rule
YOU The work of the missionaries is fruitless
till the strong hand of force has wiped away
some of the blood.
adventure, all of the excitement that Africa can
give Iprefer to explore the wiids Of Alaska,
aud shall not go back up the Congo again, un-
less it il with an expedition TO put an end for
ever to this sayagcry, cannibalism and slavery
an expedition recognized by the whole world.
ITO civilize these harbariars, even to harmon
lie them, would be the wo-k of centuries; but it
would not be hard to stop the grossess forms Of
their cruelty. would have line of swift boatD
SAY half dozen-on the Congo. Iwould have
stations at regular intervals ana stations tribu-
tary, scattered about back in the country from
the river.
"Then to such fellows as Tippoo Tip, would
say, If catch you slave raiding again will
shoot you and your men like dogs And il 1
caught them would shoot them. few les
sons like that would drive the slavefs out.
1.-The women who make silly speeches in
Exeter hall would call me brutal and a butcher.
but 1 should save thousands from butchery
You cannot use moral suasion with a slave
raider. You can only tell him you will kill him
if he does not stop, and you must keep your
word. Never finch from it
ain the same way you could check these exc
cutionsjn the villages-n0t wholly. but in large
part. Until the rule of q merciful military is
established the work of the missionaries is vain
and the money spent ON them il almost thrown
away.
"The duty Of carrying on such q work of
humanity lies chiefly atfhe doors of England
and America, for Livingston first made Africa
known and stanley marched through the Dark
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