The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1895-10-18
Civilization and Religion in NADIA
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The French troops in Madagascar
continue to advance, slowly, indeed,
hampered by impossible roads and
decimated by the fever, but they adj
vance and hope to possess themselves
of the capital during the winter. The
Queen and her Ministers are reported
to have fled, giving orders to burn An
tananarivo If the city cannot be de-
Tended against the French. Eugen
Wolff. the correspondent of the Berlin
Tageblatt, reports that the Prime Min
lister Furnishes most barbarously all
assertions from the army. The desert
ers are burned alive. Yet there is n
large party of younger HoVas who wish
to submit to the French. The troops
are not very enthusiastic, and their or
ganlzation is rather primitive. The
Courier de Madagascar, TamataVe
says:
must buy his own uniform, and must
be satisfied with one loose gown in all
kinds of weather. Beside this, he must
provide a broad leather belt and a
small tent. The Queen provides the
gun, bayonet, ammunition, pouch ana
cartridges. Each soldier is provided
with an old tomato can or paint-pot
to which a handle has been fixed. This
part of the outfit was thought worthy
of a special proclamation, which was
read by the officers to- the soldiers. 1t
runs as follows:
40, you, my hundred thousand men,
you are now fitted out with the things
most necessary to civilized troops,
things which your ancestors did not
possess when they followed the re-
nowned Sadika of Andriananpomimer-
ina. You harvest today the dement's OF
that civilization which Our Royal
Father and Mother introduced with the
help of the London Missionary society
To tighten your burden, and to render
you more able to rush upon the enemy
have decreed that 1t is unnecessary
to burden you with provision, which
you will find anywhere. Wherever the
Government has gathered supplies OF
rice, you will receive share. In Otner
parts the people, whom you are TO de-
fend against the yoke of the foreigner
will give you cattle. In places where
no provisions are to be found, count
upon your intelligence to supply what
you need. o, you, my hundred thou-
sand men, supplied with this pot, you
can not let victory escape you. Kun,
fly to the frontier, your Queen VIII near
of your deeds.
lin, does the great Napoleon appear in
comparison to this Hova queen! He
did not know how to keep his army
alive upon the icy fields of Russia. ct
the matter is very simple, as this choc-
olate-colored majesty now proves. All
you have to do is to appeal to the In
telligence of your hungry soldiers.
European commissariat departments
have not yet learned to supply thei
troops in this simple manner.
The Westliche Post, st. Louis, ex-
plains the religious position of the
Madagese as follows:
"French. American and English mis-
sionaries have done their best to con-
vert the Hova, but without success
They remain without faith. The ennis
saries of the London Mission society
have succeeded in introducing Protest
antism but only nominally. They un-
derstood that the queen had to be won,
and pointed out to her that she, If she
adopted the Protestant faith, would
become the religious head of her people
as Queen Victoria is the religious head
of the English. The queen was flat
tered. She saw that she could not OBJ
tain a similar position in the Roman
Catholic church and she became a con-
vert to Professionalism. The majority of
the people followed her example. The
missionaries, however aimed chiefly to
counteract French influence, The Mad
agese are as much opposed to all re-
ligious ideas as ever. The New York
World therefore, shows that it does
not understand the situation, If 1t
raises Christian lamentations because
Catholicism is getting the DeSt OF
| Professionalism in Madagascar.
The paper points out that all conces-
slons and privileges obtained by En-
glishmen and Americans win be worth
about as much as that possessed by
Consul Waller when the French had
conquered Madagascar. That is to
say, they will not be worth the paper
they are written on. On the other
hand, the mineral wealth of Madagas-
car will do as much for that country
as gold has done for the Transvaal.-
Translated for the Literary Digest.