The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-04-21
STANLEY ~SEESAFIGHI'
STRUGGLE BETWEEN COUN.
TRIES is INEVITABLE,

Cancellation Is Impossible-France Is
Stark Crazy Over a Colonial Policy
Nations of Europe Dcvourins the
Dark Continent.
IN a 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
remnant, foresees wal over the do
main he discovered, and he is in a
hurry for it to come. This is the
first time in a 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-
o that he was buried in his work
in parliamcnt-that institution into
which strong men go at the beginning
Of a session and at it's close emerge
wrecks from bad air and midnight de-
bates. Nh. Stanley lives in Richmond
terrace, a stately row of seven brick
houses, in historic Whitehall street. a
stones throw from the banquet hall
from n OF the windows of which
Charles wal let down to be led to
his execution on a scaffold close by.
Two hundred yards away, according to
Mr.. Stanley's w figures, are the ma
Jestlc 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-
plorer 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. He is
So years old, but he looked GO 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 Int
when he is well started in talk on a
subject that interests him it is to he
perceived that he is far more vigor-
Gus than he looks. He is as full Of
hight as ever, and, unlike most pub
lie officials in England, he SAYS what
ne thinks without reservation. Mr..
Staley was asked if pretty much all
Africa wasn't going to be a part of
the British empire some of these DAVIS.
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
and is likely to end with
the Engllsh first, the Germans second,
and the Belgians third. It won't do
to overlook Germany in the future of
Africa. They are an emigratiny race
n fertile. They have a strong foot
hold in Africa, and they keep what
they get. When l reached the east
coast with Emin there were thirty-fve
German officers there. Now there are
67S. The stream has only just begun
into the territory seized by Bismarck
in 1884, for people are like sheen. timid
and aimless until some ram leads the
way, when the rest come 1ocking
along. 1t viii be a race worth watch
ing. England got a little the start in
Cape Colony, but growth there vas
slow for years until the discovery of
diamonds brought ~colonists with a
rush. There are $50. 900 white men
now in Cape Colony, and the English
inhabitants are increasing at the rate
Of $1,000 a 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 the
north, and we shall occupy the old
highway that was used by the prehis-
toric African nations in their migra-
tons. The course laid out is along
the spine of Africa. just as the Rockies
are the spine of North America. There
is, however, a German colony to the
right and another to the left of this
track from north to south, Furnishing
marvelously in Gods own air--the air
that is like the breath Of life, it is so
pure" Mr.. Stanley predicts a marvel
Gus future for America. In describing
it he remarked with some grimness
that the colonies grew as rapidly as
the American pension list. He drew
many a parallel between the growth of
the American colonies along the Mis-
sissippi valley and the growth Of the
colonies along the Congo. 1t tool
commerce several generations to fol-
low in the track of De Soto, but it has
kent close to Mr. Stan1ev's heo1c Al