The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-29
WOULD COUPLE PHILANTHROPY
WITH BUSINESS IN GII|NFA
Returned Missionary Has
Scheme to Convert the
Hesthen and Make Him a
Profitable IRve stment-
Broad-Gauge Preacher Inn
presses Rich Men With the
Feasibility of His Plan.

Special Foreign Service.
ONDON, May 28.-After spending
many years In New Guinea-six
as trader; eight as a missionary
Rev. f. W. Walker has returned to
England to proclaim new doctrine
of salvation for the heather by means
OF philanthropy that pays per cent
And Is likely to be tried. A company
Is in process of formation to be called
the Papuan Industries. Limited. with a
capital Of $250,00 for DEVELOPMENT of
native industries In British New Gut
nea. The company pledges itself to
conduct its business on Christian
pr1nciples'-certainly a novel combin-
atlon in these days-and to devote all
It's profits over 5 per cent to improving
the condition Of the natives. That Is
where the philanthropy comes in; also
in agreeing to wait until 1910 for pos
sible dividends.
The London Missionary society has
Endorsed the project. George Cadbury,
the great Quaker cocoa manufacturer
and newspaper proprietor, and w. H.
Lever, millionaire soap maker, both Of
whom are renowned for dividend-pay-
ing philanthropy in the shape of Gar
den Cities" for their employees. have
each offered to take $4,000 worth OF
shares. Many other prominent busi-
ness men have pledged their support.
Mr.. Walker, the originator and back
bone OF the enterprise, belongs to that
type of evangelist popularity defined
as broad-gauge Christian. He makes
light of distinctions Of creed, and for
the doctrine Of eternal damnation ex-
presses open scorn. He is a healthy
clear skinned, virile man of strong con-
victions and lots of pluck Once, to
prevent a shindy among the natives.
he visited. unarmed, a witch doctor
named Tokerieu, who was melting the
savages against the white men, and
sought TO convince him Of the error Of
his ways. Only by f1eetness Of foot
did he escape being murdered by To-
kerieu's enraged followers, who prob
ably would have made q meal Of him
afterwards. But when the writer ask
ed him if he had ever been in any tight
corners in New Guinea, he said, None
worth speaking Of" and the story was
got from somebody else. Put the two
things together and they give a good
idea of the character of the man.
1T must not be supposed" he said
that because I am now engaged in an
Industrial Undertaking I have lost faith
in the efficacy of missions among the
heather. But missions alone do not
go far enough. Too often they merely
pave the way for the rapacious, un-
scrupulous trader and the devastating
blight of what is miscalled civilization.
Must Save Bodies, Too.
"The question that confronts US is
simply whether the same wholesale
degradation and destruction Of savage
races that has taken place in other
parts of the globe Is to be repeated in
New Guinea. If philanthropic effort
continues to concern itself alone with
seeking to convert the natives to CHS
tianity they are inevitably doomed. If
philanthropy can be brought to rec
ognize that they have bodies to save
that are worth saving as well as souls,
then they may escape extinction and
be developed into useful industrial
communities.
"Their natural occupation is fight
ing. In dealing with them it is not
enough to cast out that one devil
When the fighting ceases they have
practically nothing to do. They must
be provided with useful occupations
or the seven other devils'-white
mems devils, some of them-wiIl enter
in, and the last state Of these people
will be worse than the first
If Australia be regarded as a CONT
nent, New Guinea becomes the largest
island in the world being about 1,400
miles long and 400 broad at its great
est width. 1t possesses magnificent
mountain ranges. much land that Is
fruitful even under native cultivation,
mighty rivers that take their rise far
inland, one of them, the Fly river, be-
ing sixty miles wide at It's mouth and
navtgable 1000 miles from the sea. The
greater portion of the country is still
unexplored.
Here, for the most part still utterly
unacquainted with either the virtues
or the vices of civilization, dwells the
Papuan. AS Mr.. Walker describes him
he is generally a little man, 1.-THE and
slim. seldom exceeding five feet four
inches in height. His huge shock of
frizzled hair is his most prominent
feature. 1t serves him as a pillow by
night and a protection from the scorch-
ing rays of the sun by day.
He Is Not Beautiful.
Probably knowing that he would not
appreciate 1t, nature has not lavished
any beauty upon him. But he strives
to make himself several degrees uglier