The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1904-02-04
AWFULDEEDS COMMITTED
the BeIgiumS in the Congo
Free States.
AS Told BY e. B.. Huxley. an En-
listed American.

Every once in a while for the last five
years the black veil of misery that is
drawn so tightly over the Congo Free
State, by the Belgium authorities, who
control it, has been liftod long enough
to give the public a glimpse Of the
atrocities SO horrible aud too bad for
one really to believe true. The Belgium
government compels natives to gather
rubber to pay a tax which the paternal
government has the right to inhict in
return for protection. ln order to collect
what the government considers II sufh-
cient amount of rubber for the payment
of each individual TAX, the native must
spend every bit of his time working %
hard az he can at the business. They
must bring 10 their rubber once a mouth.
Ever, naive wears IA 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. 1t
stands a native we'll in hand to have his
basket filled, for those who do not arc
fngged in II barbarous manner. The
victims, men and women, are stretched
on the ground before the eyes Of their
companions and walled With a heavy
thick whip made ofrawhida, the plumber
ur la>hes being sometimes into the hun
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 q tribe who refuse to gather rubber
are captured ard tortured; also women
and children who have committed trifipg
offences either are slaughtered or. hide.
ousiy MANNED.
Many of the eases Of inhuman treat.
lntnt Of the ratlvcs are so louthsume
that they cannot hr printed. There are
many hardships fpr foreigners In I onlo,
and OF fourteen Americans that enlisted
iii Washington fnr Congo service sew
eral years ago unlr three OF them ever
returned awe an we're. able tt reach
the United States. They were SO weak.
ened from disease and labor that they
we're comparatively tit for nothing when
they did return.
AS told by Mr.. K B Huxley; one of
the enlisted Americans: l would have
died had I remained in South Africa. l
came to America for medical treatment,
and doctored with Il 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.
| was advised to go to a northern eli
mate, and If possible 10 the climate Of
the NorthWeSt,rn states. | came to Min
nesnta in 1902 ] heard Of the remark.
able success nf i'r. w. ID. Rea. who was
pronounced the best specia' lat, and who
was curing diseases after other doctors
could do nothing for them. lcopsulted
him in Minneapolis ana begandoctoring.
In six months after | began doctoring l
was we'll, | had spent much money in
doctoripg with other doctors. and I had
taken a long chance on my life and had
felt that my time had almost come. l
wae4sick at heart, body and mind. My
skin was pale, my blood thin; I was
dizzy, weak and worn out No one could
tell the miseries | suffered. Death would
have been a relief to Inc had it come.
From the first commencement of DR..
Rea's treatment 1 had great faith in him.
| owe much to him. as well as thousands
OF others who know him. DR.. Rea, as a
physician, stands at the head Of his
specially 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 I would
him. He is surrounded by a corps of
physician specialists to aseist him in his
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 a special
drug department and tive men employed
continually in putting out his prescrip-
tions. and his medicines are sent to all
parts of the United States and many
+, ~ ar M rfo IF Tho c1rl3 fE ~
How he cures these diseases, and why.
no one can tell, but he does it by a pow
er which seems ~far.reaching and by a
power that never fails him. His science
is a new revelation to the practice of
medicine. His cures are quickly made.
People com to him given up to die. who
IN the last hope of success are quickly
cured. Or. Rea is certainly a wonderful
man in his profession. Thousands of cures
all over the United states have been an
n~onncedfrom time to time and published
In the newspapers all wei the county.
eople come to him from Texas, Maine
and California and all over to see him.
His ability to diagnose diseases is mar.
yelous, and he perhaps treats more PEG.
pie in one day than any other known
physician. DR.. ltea daes not waste his
time. He is bnsily engaged in treating
his thousands Of patients, and his cures
are the most prominent people through.
out the United states. people who had
apent thousands OF dollars in doetoring
themselves before they went to him for
help.
Some recent cures be has made:
IS pecial to the Pioneer) DR.. r
to East Grand Forks, MINI, at Il
day, Feb. 10th; Moorhead, MINI.
Feb. 18th; Breckenridge, Mimi,
18th. One day only in each place
his many patients in that locality
close to their homes.
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