The silver lance., 1898-07-01
AFRICA'S FUTURE.
uop uARrzgLLDlscUssE 1T
/ Have Great Britain and the
=. s.vtes Protect Liberia-Poasi-
,u,,,es of the Little Republic.


, Hartzell of the Methodist
pisnp who has charge of missions
/. cnu,s sriea. has been spending few
III in washington, and has received
. qs..aat deal of attention from Presl-
FL .st Mckinley and other high ofh-
,i,s whom he has been trying TO IN
.anast .,a ir the development OF the dark
aaeontineIH Since the 9th OF Decem-
.bor 1896, Bishop Hartzen mas trav-
a,ed more than 10000 miles IN ms dlo-
eieu ' 900 being on the African CONT
cese' ue spent two and a half months
nen iberia. where he stationed eighty
III missionaries; a month in Sierre
,a nv and then followed the entire
LIT ss. around as far as Zambeeg and
.I,'ta,i in eastern Rhodesia, which is
~ terminus of the railway system on
the east coast.
pishop HartzeI speaks with great
..,tbusiasm of the energy and zeal
18th which the English are developing
Africa, and sa1d
..rba conflict between the Dutch and
p,a,isb in South Africa is irrepressi-
hIa The South African or Transvaal
.an,,bIic has only $4,000 Beers, while
tbere are 10000 English and 1,O0O.-
nn natives. The Boer voters number
onIv D. 900. and although the Euro
aans or Uitlanders pay into the
,raasury over S25.O0O,0OO a year taxes
m various ways, chiefly on mining in
dnstries they are not allowed to vote.
; There are three burning questions in
.ha renublic-the furnishing of dyna-
mite which Kruger has put into the
hands of Jewish syndicate; transpor
.- tation which is controlled by a Meth
orIands railway company, and the ma
rive labor question. The republic is
ono in name only, being absolutely
dominated by Kruger and a few of
his non-progressive party.
II expect in few years to make the
trim of 6.OO0 miles from Cape Town to
cairo by rail and steamboat, all I'M
der the British flag. My plans include
tbe development of a large industrial
missionary station near Umtal1. l
have already been given concessions
of money, land and buildings by the
British chartered company, the lead
ing men of which both in Africa and
London have assured me of their earn
est desire to have America unite with
England in developing Anglo-Saxon
civilization in Rhodesia, where for
been submerged in barbarism.'
The bishop is greatly interested in
Liberia and believes America should
renew her interest in that republic.
rpresident Coleman said the bish-
op. "has come to realize fully that a
few great nations are to control the
world, and that this is especially true
of Africa His desire is that the
United States and England should es-
tablsh some sort of a prOtectOrate
over the republic and insure its au-
tonomy and the exploration and de-
velopment of its domain. Secretary of
State Gibson of Liberia will soon visit
the United States and with friends of
Liberia will bring the matter more
prominently before this country"
d, Bishop Hartzell is said to represent
the Republic of Liberia and is author
lied, it is claimed. to ask Great Brit
ain and the United States to establish
Joint protectorate over Liberia. He
has already laid the matter before the
Il President and Secretary Day. If
Great Britain and the United States do
not consent to a joint prOtectOrate
neither country will be asked to do
80. The aggressions of the French,
Germans and Belgians are said to be
worrying the little republic.
Bishop Hartzell feels greatly en-
Outraged by his reception at the
White House and Department of
State, and will return again to Wash
ington when Mr.. Gibson, the Liberian
minister of foreign affairs, arrives in
= this country. He deplores the emigra-
!. ton of negroes from America to Ii
.9s-beria. He says there is no room for
them over there unless they go with
capital sufficient to engage in COM
,plercial or industrial enterprises.
AThere is a great field offered in Ii
:: befia' for American enterprise in the
development of the mineral. agricul-
.tural and other resources of that re-
public, because the people there have
no money, no experience and lack the
energy and intelligence necessary to
lufilize the opportunities that are of
fered them. The emigration of labor
from the United States to Liberia
Fimply increases the difficulties that
exist there and make it harder for tile
natives of that country to get living
A few of the emigrants who have
gone from the United States are doing
well, but the most of them have by nc
means improved their condition.-Chi
cago Record.