The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-26
THE NEW ROAD TO VICTORIA FALLS.

tivation of the tobacco plant Is being
carried on scientifically, and a large
area will be productive this season.
Fruit is plentiful and fine, and foreign
varieties are being introduced. Corn
is most abundant, and experiments in
wheat-growing promise success.
There are vast tracts that afford
Africa has been unfortunate in cattle
during recent years. One pest after
another has swept the herds away.
Rhodesia, nothing daunted, engaged
DR.. Koch to come from Europe and
study the problem, with the object of
rendering the cattle immune. The
scientist gives assurance that he will
become a great beef-raising country.
Bars Bad Immigrants.
Perhaps they will have to lift some
of the restrictions that now bar ordi-
nary immigration. There is an in
creasing demand for labor, and the
natives cannot be depended upon.
They will not work regularly. Their
needs are simple, and when these are
supplied nothing will induce the
black man to keep at his job. Mining
he dislikes. And the white man and
the black will not work side by side
not the kind of white man who emf
/ CRATES to RhOdesia.
Besides, the native labor is cheap,
and the white man cannot live upon
such wages. So there arises agitation
in favor of Asiatic labor. Should this
agitation prevail, Rhodesia may have
| her troubles befOre her. Rhodes was
working for a white mans country,
not yellow mans.
On this point the Rhodesians reply,
vide the Bulawayo Chronicles: 1.-The
natives are childish and indolent. It
will be a generation yet before they
can become an economic factor here.
| That is why we want the Chinese. But
we want them only temporarily. What
is required is industrial training for
the native. That alone will elevate
him. He scorns now the heavy man
ual labor required of white laboring
is to be done, unless we import the
Asiatic while we train the young ma
! tives? You can't change the nature
of a race in ten years." .-t
One aim of the administration is to
attract English, Scotch, Welsh, Irish,
Danish, and Scandinavian settlers, as
the Canadian government. has done.
The chances are as good, they say, as
in Canada. The climate is all that
can be desired: there is a good mar
ket at hand for all kinds Of produce.
The mineral wealth is great, and Rho
desia must become a manufacturing
country as we'll as an agricultural one
The First Railway Train.
Anyway, the first train from Cape
Town to Victoria Falls will run ir
April, and it will run full. It is bound
to become a great tourist route, this
from the Cape to the Falls. And thai
means drawing money and attention
to the country. Three weeks from
J London, and there you are! So much
for civilization versus savagery.
In the coming summer the British
Association for the Advancement Of
Science will hold its annual meeting a
Victoria falls, going out from ENGLAND
for that special purpose. And the
scientists will travel up from Cape
Town even more luxuriously than il
they were on the Twentieth Century
Limited bound from New York to Chi
|cago. So says Sir Charles, the rail.
way builder, Will it be long, I won.
der, before the Pullman people Dor.
row from Africa the shower bath
Idea? .-.