Daily camera., 1899-05-01
STANLEY SEES FIGHT
STRUGGLE BETWEEN COUN-
TRIES is INEVITABLE.
S"souistion IL Impossibie-Fr.nsS Il
stark Crazy Over = Colonial Policy
nations OF Europe Devoariag tie
Dark Continent

IN London letter to the St Louis
| Globe-Democrat Curtis Brown de-
clares that Henry Morton Stanley.
| member of parliament for Lambeth.
former governor OF Congo, greatest of
the explorers of the dark continent,
and husband of the lovely Dorothy
Tsnnant, foresees war over the do
main he discovered. and he is in
hurry for II to come. This is the
hrst time in long while that Mr.
Stanley has been heard from He has
been sick nigh unto death since last
summer, and for the six months be-
fore that he was buried in his work
In parliament-that institution into
which strong men go at the beginning
OF a session and al its close emerge
wrecks from bad air and midnight de-
bates. Mr. Stanley lives in Richmond
terrace. stately row OF seven brick
houses, in historic Whitehall street. a
stones throw from the banquet hall
from one of the windows Of which
Charles | was let down to be led to
his execution on scaffold close by.
Two hundred yards away, according to
Mr. Stanleys own figures, are the ma
jestic houses of parliament. Simple
quiet elegance is shown by the fur
nishings of the Stanley house. The
exquisite taste OF its gracious mis-
tress is shown everywhere. The ex-
piorer received me in his den. the first
room on the ground floor, where he
SITS behind a big roll-top desk. sur
rounded by books OF reference n. is
% years old. bu, he looked 60 when
he came back from Africa ten Years
ago. with hair turned snowy white
and his recent siege Of illness has not
exactly made him look younger hut
when he is well started in talk on a
subject that Interests him IL is To be
perceived that he is far more vigor-
Gus than he looks. He is as full OF
night as ever. and. unlike most pub
lie omcials in England. he says what
he thinks without reservation Mr.
StAiey was asked II pretty much ALI
Africa wasn't going to be a mart of
the British empire some OF these days
No. said Mr.. Stanley. 1T is not
certain that Africa will eventually be
controlled by the English, but the
race lies between the English and the
Germans. and is likely to end with
the English frst. the Germans second
and the Belgians third. /, won't do
TO overlook Germany in the future of
AtficA- they are an emigratiug race.
and fertile. They have a strong foot,
hold In Africa. and they keep what
they get. When | reached the east
coast with Emin there were thirty-fye
German officers there. Now there are
61s The stream has only just begun
into the territory seized by Bismarck
In 1884. for people are like sheen, timid
and aimiess until some ram leads the
way. when the rest come hocking
along. II Will be a race worth watch
Ing. England got a little the start in
Cape Colony. but growth there was
slow for years until the discovery o,
diamonds brought colonists with
rush. There are $4,000 white men
now In Cape Colony, and the English
Inhabitants are increasing at the rate
Of $1,000 4 year.
When Rhodes comes here and.
along In next July. gets money for
his railroad from Bulowayo to Tan
ganyika. England will be greatly
strengthened in the race. The line of
advance is from the Cape Colonies to
TangAnyika. thence to the source Of
the Nile. Then the English, working
up from the south. will shake hands
with those working down from tho
north, and we shall occupy the old
highway that was used by the prehis-
toric African nations In their migra-
tions. The course laid out is along
the spine OF Africa Just a. the Rockies
are the spine of North America There
is however, German colony to the
right ana another to the left OF this
track from north TO south. fiourishins
marvelously in Gods own air-the air
that is like the breath OF life. II is 40
pure" Mr.. Stanley prsdisas 4 marvel
Gus future for America In describing
1t he remarked with some gr,mns.s
that the colonies grew as RAPIDLY A.
the American pension list. He drew
many parellsl between the growth Of
the American colonies along the Mis-
sissippi valley and the growth Of the
colonies along the Congo. II took
commerce several generations to fol-
low In the track Of De Soto, but IL has
kept close to Mr.. Stanley's heels. Al
though the course OF the Como wa
not even known uuntil isT7. Mr.. Stan
ley pointed out that the Internal rev.
snue alone In the Congo region now
Ia fb7s.000. and the commerce 10 IN
creasing at a tremendous rate. A.
rica, 1t appears. is going to outs&r4p
North America in rat> ~ ~ro.<A