Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-03-24
EFFORTS BEING MADE TO
SUPPRESS 1T.
Disapproval of he English "rauu
Emancipation is His Aim and That
Does not Suit the
e~asiness of tho Natives. q

extent or England coIoHldi ehhpiio'
the incessant struggle that goes for-
ward in one form or another and III
one place or another TO establish n
to maintain Il. and the work that sol
diers and administrators are steadily
doing in the face OF persistent DIM
culties. and that should bring oftener
than 1t seems to do a wider reward
than consciousness of duty done. says
a London correspondent of the New
York Commercial Advertiser. To the
average American the British posses
sions In Africa imply Cape Colony, the
diamond mines OF Kimberley and the
gold reefs OF johannesburg to the
south, and Egypt and the valley OF
the upper Nile to the north. To the
average Englishman British West Al
RIGA is probably not a very tangible
country, though now that the eye or
the energetic and somewhat talkative
Mr.. Chamberlain has fallen upon II he
may learn more Of II. British East
Africa would be scarcely more tan
gible to him had he not been more or
less often reminded OF it IN recent
years by the agitation over the aboli-
ton OF slavery In Zanzibar and the
neighboring territories under English
protectorate and by the comparatively
swift and orderly development Of
Uganda-the interior territory around
the great lakes that make the sources
Of the Nile.
When slavery was prohibited and
measures devised for the liberation Of
the slaves In the East African protec-
torate he may W. have flattered him
self that a stain was removed from the
flag and freedom advanced In the ends
OF the earth. When he looked upon
the fiourishing condition OF Uganda
he seemed to have fresh cause for
pride in the ability OF his race to rule
savage tribes and to lift them a little
out OF barbarism. For the moment
he Is disillusioned on either score; for
DEGREES have not sufficed to abolish
slavery in British East Africa and the
whole rudimentary fabric of civiliza-
ton in Uganda Is in peril from a mill
tary mutiny.
Even in these days OF railways.
steamships and telegraphs British East
Africa is for the purpose Of govern
ment almost as far from London as
was India In the time OF Give and of
Hastings and the English administra-
tors there have something Of the same
freedom OF action hat the two pro
consuls," as Macaulay would say. en-
joyed In Hindostan. Now, the English
guardian of the sultan of Zanzibar
and the real ruler OF that isalnd and
the neighboring territory is Sir Arthur
Hastings, by all accounts an able a
exercising his protectorate efficiently
and steadily increasing British inAu-
ence and trade in East Africa. Since.
as consul-general. he began his adj
m~inistration In 1895, he has restored
and kept the peace In a country CON
stantly desolated by the internal wars
OF Arab chiefs and native tribes and
by the raids OF other Arabs and other
tribes from without. He has Develop
ed the beginnings of civilized govern
ment, and he has even Interested tho
better sort OF native Arabs and Swa.
hills IN them. He has found them In
deed. the best means for the increase
OF British influence and trade In East
Africa and for the general progress of
the country. Therefore, he has sought
though always as a predominant mart
ner, to conciliate them. Apparently he
has succeeded, but to the proportional
increase OF his difficulties at home
The Arabs and the Swahills do NOT
see slavery and the slave trade In tbe,r
territory with the eyes OF missionary
bishops, OF speakers at ph%ilanthron,c
meetings or of members rising to ask
questions on the subject in the bo,.a
OF commons. Neither does Sir Arthur
Hardinge.
Naturally he does not, like tho
Arabs. regard slavery as a part NJ tha
order OF things. and the slave-troas
as a lucrative and legitimate industrv.
but ne Is disposed to go slowly in ths
prohibition Of both. to bear In mind
what on the ground seem mItig,t,na
circumstances. to offend the Arab s,.
capabilities as little as possible and
o keep an eye on a labor m.-L.,
largely supplied by slaves. He tnorss
that he Is dealing with a people amors
which slaves rather than coin No.
been long the usual medium =,
change. and of such UNDERSTANDING :,
the new conditions that a manumittsd
slave. who had recovered some monss
Tor assault from a former master Won.
forthwith to buy a slave with u ,or
herself. He has. however. a~ccordins
70 his reports, suppressed The sIavo
trade on the adjacent seas and VOW
narrowly restricted It on land s,av,
cry itself has now no legal status IN
British East Africa; but In the There
uon O the slaves Sir Arthur and his
suoordinates are proceeding very slow
~, seeking to substitute a middle ser,-
oom that shall lead with time 10 grad
uated manumission. They behave
swilter progress impractlcable: for the
SAKE OF what seem to them more I'M
portant considerations they NAV toIsr-