The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1903-05-01
BY the Belgiums in the
Congo Free States.
AS Told by e. B. Huxley, an En-
listed American.

wears the black veil of misery that is
drawn so tightly over the Congo Free
State, by the Belgium authorities, VINO
control it, has been lifted long enough
to give the public glimpse OF the
atrocities so horrible and too bad Tor
one really to believe true. The Belgium
government compels natives to gather
rubber to pay tax which the paternal
government has the right to intiict IN
return for protection. In order to collect
what the government considers a suttl-
Gent amount of rubber for the payment
of each individual tax, the native must
spend every bit of his time working as
hard as he can at the business. They
must bring IN their rubber once month.
Every native wears brass tag with his
number, and as he delivers his rubber
he is checked off, and the amount that
he has gathered is credited to him. It
stands native we'll i'll hand to have his
baskets filed, Tor those who do not are
fogged in a barbarious manner. The
victims, men and women, are stretched
on the ground before the eyes OF their
companions and walled with heavy,
thick whip made of rawhide, the number
of lashes being sometimes into the hum
dreds. These atrocities are carried out
by the consent of the officers OF the
Belgium Guard, who are in charge Of the
affairs in the Congo State. The chiefs
of a tribe who refuse to gather rubber
are captured and tortured; also women
and children who have committed triaing
ofenses either are slaughtered or hide
ously mai ned.
MANY of the cases of inhuman treat
ment of the natives are so loathesome
that they cannot be printed. There are
many hardships for foreigners in Congo,
and of fourteen Americans that enlisted
in Washington for Congo service Sew
eral years ago only three of them ever
returned alive and we're able to reach
the United States. They were so weak
ened from disease and labor that they
were comparatively fit for nothing when
they did return.
As told by Mr.. E. B. Huxley, one of
the enlisted Americans: II would have
died had remained in South Africa. l
came to America for medical treatment,
and doctored with number of the most
prominent specialists in the East, and
could get but very little benefit from
what seemed to be the trouble with me.
I was advised to go to northern eli
mate. and if possible to the climate of
the Northwestern states. came to Min
nesota in 1902. l heard of the remark
able success of DR.. w. D. Rea, who was
pronounced the best specialist, and who
was curing diseases after other doctors
could do nothing for them. consul. ed
him in Minneapolis and began doctoring.
In six months after began doctoring I
was we'll. had spent much money in
doctoring with other doctors, and I had
akena long chance on my life and had
felt that my time had almost come. l
was sick at heart, body and mind. My
skin was pale, my blood thin; l was
dizzy, week and worn OFT. No one could
tell the miseries suffered. Death would
have been relief to me had it come.
From the first commencement of DR..
Rea's treatment had great faith in him
owe much to him, as we'll as thousands
of others who know him. DR.. Rea, as
physician, stands at the head of his
speciality in the treatment of heart dis
ease, cancer, consumption, nervous dis
ease, kidney disease and blood disease.
There is no other physician in America
that l would trust as quickly as would
him. He is surrounded by a corps Of
physi clan specialists 10 assist him in h
practice. He has the best appliances,
and his laboratories are the largest OF
any in the Northwestern states. His
business is SO large that he has special
drug department and five men employed
continually in putting out his prescrip-
tons, and his medicines are sent to all
parts of the United States and many
other parts of the world"
How he cures these diseases, and why.
no one can tell, but does it by a power
which seems far-reaching and by a
power that never fails him. His science
IS new revelation to the practice of
medicine. His cures are quickly made.
People come to him given up to die, who
IN the last hope Of success are quickly
cured. Or. Rea is certainly wonderful
man in his profession. Thousands Of cures
ali over the United States have been an
nounced from time to time and published
In the newspapers all over the country.
People come q him from Texas, Maine
and California and all over 70 See him.
His ability % diagnose diseases Is mar.
yelous and he perhaps treats more peo-
ple 81 ons ny ttl,an 80 other known