The morning times., 1896-05-03

Copyright, 1867

gold and silver and diamonds, OF metals,
OF rare stones. OF fertile fruit fields, of
ore thicker and purer than any that ever
showed along the pie reed SIDE Of u mountain.
Here i'll the ground, lying upon it in places,
SO rich that you have only to stamp the
dirt away to get it, is goid-gold! And
there in caves, in the sides OF mountains.
i'll the beds Of roadways are mines, dia-
nond mines; and while you are glCating
upon them, you see the dull of tie silver
vein and the priceless iron. Yes, and there
is ivory. Elephants are in the junges in
Africa. The great country is large enough
10 give them an unmolested Playground;
and so Africa has the ivory OF the world.
II is for these precious products that all
the Soudan is fighting.
When the American Indians fought, they
battled for their homesteads. But there
were no precious metals for them that they
then knew about. If there were, they did
not know it. And for years the Soudanese
did not know OF the treasure that lay
at their door. They were peaceful then,
and willing to sell the lands since found
so valuable.
Very easily, by simplest Of conquest, the
British took away from the Africans the
upper territory of Africa. Cairo and
the northern part OF the Nile was largely
bought by them from the soudanese for
conside rations so small that the British
territory rapidly extended. Rey built
hotels. They put steamers upon the Nile.
They made pleasant winter resort, and
| they, of course, stationed troops there.
They owned as far as Kbartoum.
When Lord Wolseley, fn 's5, was driven
back up the Nile he had TO abandon
Khartoum, but up to that time the British
! had owned it for many years, and vir-
| tuaIly had the whole eastern coast of
| A frica.
And what did they do with 1t? They
| established a British South frican Com
| pany, for the taking OF the gold out OF
the country The clever Britishers knew
as soon as they sa W the rusty-loOking rocks
along the Nile that there was gold there.
They sent their states out. The states
men formed private companies. The Duke
| of Fife belonged to cue. Barnato has sew
| cral under his name. Cecil Rhodes, the ex-
| governor of the town, owned the diamond
! mines of the place, holding mighty enough
| TO flood the world with diamonds, were
they all sent out, so that diamonds would be
as plentiful as glass
| The Soudanese, the natives the in
comers patroniZingly called them, were al
| lowed the privilege of being servants. They
waited upon the lords in their mansions.
saw pieces Of land made into parks and
named after the strangers, and they saw
the money come flowing in, en ough to buy
| ali things TO drink and eat and the great
| houses to live In. Where did they get it?
| Out of the ground-the ground the natives
| had given away.
| This lay smolderlng in their minds.
Meanwhile all went merry in the upper
part of Egypt. Cairo is beautiful city
The people further down the Nile became
allied to it by bringing their curios and
| baskets and rushes and odd stones up to
Cairo to ell. Soon they found they were
| not as friendly with their cousins down the
| river. They began to call them the Sou
| danese" also. They hated them.
/ Lord Woiseley, thinking these natives
| would be of great value in case of war,
| formed them into troops and drilled them,
so that he could have them in case Of
| !rouble with the Soudanesc. They are
| big fellows, and it looks strange TO see
| 3hem in British uniform marching under