The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-14
district is 1000 miles beyond Johannes

burg.
1T is possible" continued Mr.. Brown,
that the early miners were Phoeni-
clans. 1t is probable that the ancient
Egyptians mined along the Zambezi-
and it is the opinion of many that the
gold of SolOmon's temple was brought
from the district. The country abOundS
in ruins of great stone temples which
were also used as forts, and miners
have found many specimens of gold
which were used as money and as or
naments by the original inhabitants
The presence of Portuguese cannon is
proof that the Portuguese in centuries
past knew of the mines and worked
them. The African slave trade almost
depopulated the district, but it is now
thiclxly settled in places and natives
swarm for miles through the favorable
localities. The African race is one of
the wonders of the world, and IL there
is any one danger which threatens civ
ilization of the future, in my opinion,
it is the spread of the African race
The Indians of North America are not
to be compared in numbers WITH the
vast Swarms of blacks who have their
homes in the mighty continent of
Africa
conquest in Africa, Mr. Brown made
some startling statements:
1T would take every missionary in
the world to convert the negroes The
conversion would even then be only
skin deep. Place negro in constant
contact with whites and he may i'm
prove, but withdraw the influence of
the higher civilization, even after long
years of time, and the black race will
quickly return to savagery. This has
been illustrated many time in Africa
What has been the result of the many
attempts to COLOMBO Liberia? Look at
the figures of negroes on the ruins of
the Egyptian temples The pictures
were made 5000 years ago. and they are
an exact representation of the negro of
today He has not advanced a hairs
breadth in all these centuries These,
maybe, are harsh words, but l lived for
years among the natives and know
what I am talking about The negro
is a, menace to the civilization of the
earth. 1 am firmly of the opinion that
the negroes absorbed the whites who
at one time lived in MaShOnaland and
mined for gold. The tendency in ma
ture is for the lower forms to absorb
the higher. and with the advent of
peace in Africa and the adjustment of
the slave trade, whose horrors in the
dark continent no language could de-
scribe, the native population will soon
become so large that one continent can
not hold it.
England" continued Mr.. Brown.
will eventually have supreme control
of nearly all the desira bic parts of
Africa. England is better able to han
die the difficult problem than any 9TH
er nation in the world, and every friend
of humanity ought to wish the British
cause in Africa gOd-Speed- The gov
eminent of the British is really much
more lenient than the natives deserve.
While I was in the gold region there
were two wars between the negroes and
the whites 1 took no part in the first
war, as my sympathies were with the
natives, but when they arose in one
day and maSSacred over 200 white men,
women and children, infiicting on the
prisoners every known torture and
actually Skinning men and women alive
1 changed my mind and did what I
could in assisting TO exterminate the
brutes.
The whites did not give cause for
the uprising and there can be only one
end Of the troubles still in progress, and
that is the overwhelming defeat of the
negroes Americans are disposed to
sympathise with the Transvaal repub-
lie, simply because it is a republic but
it is a republic only in name. There
can be no liberty in Africa. unless it be
under the British flag. The Portu-
guese, the Dutch, and the Germans
have done nothing but tyrannize in
Africa, and the French have no emf
grants to colonize with The Germans
carry their system of military despot-
ism into their colonies, but under the
British flag all men are equal and the
weakest can obtain justice. I am an
American by birth and sentiment but
my sympathies are all with England in
the attempt to cOlonize Africa.
In my travels 1 never met any of
the soft-hearted negroes described in
the travels of Mungo Park Over each
tribe is king. usually vicious brute.
who rules like a tryant and revels in
the blood of defenseless women and
children He has from 20 to 100 wives.
over whom he has undisputed control.
and the majority of the tribe must be
slaves to support the tyrant and his
army of fighting men,
AT the end of the rainy season each
year, the doctor throws a stick. and
the army moves in the direction the
stick falls, swooping upon every village
in the line of march and killing and
torturing the men and taking prisoners
the defenseless women and children
This savagery is kept up year after
year, until the army is overcome by
some more powerful band of assassins
50 it has been going on for centuries
and it Will never stop until England
lays the strong arm of power on the
necks of the inhuman rulers and obliges
them to desist from bloodshed. A thou
sand times better would it be for a
great army TO swOOp through Africa
and exterminate the negroes rather
than to allow the savage practices to
go on unchecked"