The Lamar register., 1896-03-07

q PARTICULAR uNle-
Illness and Importance. Concerning the
pGrtitioning of the continent, Mr. stan
ley says:
Until the Berlin conference 10 Euro
pean nation appeared to take any spe-
cial interest In the fate of the Dark
Continent. but the three-uoaths' sit
ting under the auspices OF Bismarck
was n splendid school for Europe The
daily kilograms and editorial comments
on the sayingsand dolngs Of many celeb
rites regarding river basins and de-
Limitations. aud the products and pos
sibiltties Of Africa, were Just what was
wanted TO instrue; and start into energy
the Numbering ambitions Of nations as
well as Of individuals. What King Leo
pold. De Brazza. and the writer had
dcne. others could do: and the scramble
for Africa was the consequences. with
all its Jealousies, spltes, newspaper ban
ter. and menace. Thoughts o; the
period Of from lss5 to 1890 remind ne
o. the way my black followers used 20
rush with cleaning knives fer siauEht-
cred game during our travels Foremost
among the countries whose lust for
territory was awakened By the Berlin
conference were Germany. France and
Italy do not blame them al all: on the
contrary. l think II admirable. ncecs-
sary and inevitable. The starving
white man mus; be satisfied. or be viii
become ugly. Before these nations was
revealed a huge continent with many
millions OF square miles undeyelopea.
In possession were several millions o;
black men. divided Into minute frag-
ments OF tribes. each OF which Was
isolated on its tou-square- mile plot, up
holding with tooth. spear and arrow It's
singular African Monroe doctrine
Ugogo for the wagozo. Uganda for the
waganda. Uguhha for the waguhha.
uryora for the wanyoro. and so
throughout all the thousands of ten
square-plile sections OF Equatorial AZ
rica. And fine mess these tribal
fragments had made OF themselves and
their lands after some fifty centuries or
thereabouts Of occupation, Murder In
every conceivable shape riotcd through
out their territories Naked and bestial
they had lived from prehistoric time.
~ was 1SaeA " daf dAi1AllSA b1AAhNl
10 come among them. aud death to any
member of their communities who
showed the least sign OF capacity or
genius. From the Hotteatot TO the
Shillua. the Nasal to the Bakongo, they
were all alike; and so long as they ex-
eluded outside influences they would
continue to deteriorate morally and
physically. until they would become as
degraded as the Pygmies ard the Bush.
men.
Therefore Il was not harm, but tho
highest good. that was coming TO tho
savage African by the advent Of clyilis-
ing white men among them. He was
IL be protected from tbs black-haired
yellow-faced Arab, who was incapa-
Bile OF pity. He would be saved from
self. than whom there was nothine
more deadly. He was to be taught how
to be human. and how in time he would
become the equal of the white. Talk
about the emancipation OF the Ameri-
can negroes and Russian serfsi They
were mere commonplaces compared &c
the emancipation of Africa from her.
self that dates from 1855. England was
the last European power to engage il
the rush for African territory. Her
efforts for some years after the Bar-
lin conference had been confined to re
serving spheres Of influence, rather