The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-07-04

rows Of younger, better formed and higher
priced girls. bedecked for the occasion
with heavy earrings and bugIes and
bright-colored robes. all the faces marked
with that vacant stare common to the
slave population, the sight h revolving
one, and it 5 rendered doubly 80 when. as
is often the case, some Of the recently I'M
ported wretches are mere skeletons OF
skin and bone. fostering with sores end
loathsome skin disease. and looking as II
they were on the threshold Of death. But
wait until the throng thickens; Until tue
heavy spectators arrive and business
WAKES fast and furious
A keen, hook-nosed Arab discovers
likely article for his money and IN confer
ence with his companions narrowly m
spects the man. woman or child. with all
the science of an expert and princienI'
The mouth Is opened. the teeth examined
the eyes carefully looked at. the hands and
nails passed muster, the limbs handed
and the condition felt IN precisely the
manner in which a horse would be looked
over at a fair; and when the competition
Is eager and the lot Is passed over from
stepping aside to put one or two pertinent
questions and endeavors 10 ascertain tenn
per-an important qualiflcation-and fnal-
IL, in the case Of women, retiring with the
chattel under the cover of an adjacent
shed. the more mfnutely to estimate the
value Of her attractions. one turns away
with a thorough feeling OF sickness and
disgust at such an exhibition being posi-
bic in this civilized age. and hope (happily
now in rapid realization). that the days Of
public slavery are fast drawing 10 close
The foregoing Is no overdrawn picture
but Is one that will bear painting IN far
more sensational colors. and there are in
decencies inseparably connected with the
slave trade which one Is compelled 10 pass
over In writing. No description can effect-
lively bring before a stranger TO the east
coast the utter misery and degra datioa
which the traffic spreads open-handed IN
its wake. Il commences with murder,
rapine and lawless raids; epidemic disease
and death follow up its paths. Legitimate
trade Is abandoned for its heavier and
more attractive gains. whilst morality
breathe not the word-there Is none OF II
that can be co-exstent with the collection.
transportation and sale Of slaves-and the
existence Of the system reflects in some
measure a disgrace upon every civilized
nation of tire west.
There Is little doubt that II the work OF
slave suppression is allowed TO relax,
through matters Of more national and
nearest interest keeping the question IN
the background, the delay VIII tend 20
still further demoralize the condition OF
affairs under far more disturbing influ-
ences than any that have existed hithe--
to.
Every power owning territory IN Africa
has undertaken TO carry out measures OF
effective suppression throughout its pro-
tectorates In the interior. England Is es-
pecially anxious 10 promote measures for
suppression and has gone so far as to
promise the nation that the thing. sought
shall be done, and that her flag shail
cease to fly over slavery in Zanzibar; and
though no time has been named. there can
be no doubt that the government win be
kept to its word. and will be forced to do
what might have been done long ago. and
what cannot any longer be delayed without
national dis1raca