The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-26

my place, and some months elapsed. One day the little Batetela boy came running joyously to the house. crying: Wembo come Wembos come!' Surely enough, up came the redoubtable runaway, and deposited the little wallet containing his all on the floor and saiuted. He said that his. master had taken his wife from him and sold her far away to the Bakuba. Then he had beaten his master and he'd.
 gave him one of the forms of declar- ation for licensed workmen furnished me by the Government. and he became my legal employe. Never had any man more devoted henchman. He was the most powerful man I ever saw. Once he went out into the great river in a small canoe and caught a wild boar in the stream which had been wounded. dis patched him, and put him into the canoe with one hand. have seen him swim fifty yards under water across swollen river with the river raging like mill race When I was wounded once, he car ried me several miles in his arms.
 He had several encounters subsequent ly with his old enemies. the Zappo-zaps. Once four of them, three of whom were six feet high, set upon him, and he knocked them all down and completely put them to rout in less time than 1t takes to tell it. Once when a slave trader used some threatening language to me, Wembo shot across the yard like a can non ball, and before I could step him, knocked the offending Zappo through fence and wrecked the wall of a native house behind with him. He also made nocturnal expedition to the country where his wife was held and brought her safely back to camp without striking a blow. He became a Christian, and is now fire man on the steamboat of the Presbyterian Church on the Kongo.
 The method of enlisting the help of the native chiefs in the work of voluntarily putting down the system of slavery is one of the best that can be pursued. Of course not all the chiefs can be persuad- ed, but the cooperation of a sufficient number can always be secured to make much headway.
 But the great reliance must always be in opening up practical industries in which the slaves can be employed under the protection and guidance of the white men. Of course missionary work does much in this direction, but 1t will always be inadequate to the large requirements of the whole situation. Work is the best tonic for the savage African, after he has come under the influence of the Christian religion. There is vast deal of mis- placed philanthrophy directed to the fields abroad in this respect.
 The practical question of the best meth- ods or securing, using, controIlnB' traln- ing and governing this enormous labor force which is presented by the needs of the Central African slaves is the most important with which white men con- trolling the tropics now have to deal. The intrinsic difference between the negro and the American Indian is in the fact that the former may be converted into a useful laborer. The Indian disappeared because he occupied regions suitable to the white man, and he could not be induced to help him develop those regions. But the ne- gro occupies a territory in which the white man cannot labor physically, or even reside permanently, and the negro can be made to develop those regions. Hence there is no economic reason for his probable disappearance. The world will soon need the products of the trop- ics The white man must direct the de- velopment of thoes resourceful lands. The negro must do the manual work there. This is the gist of the whole matter.
 In my next, I shall discuss the new la bor contract system, and show the rela- ton of American slavery and subsequent emancipation to the international issues presented by the wide problem of the tropics.
 L. N