Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-05-28

per cent. And II is likely to be tried. a
company is In process Of formation TO
be called the Papuan Industries, Limited,
with a capital OF 1000, for the devel-
opment OF native industries In British
New Guinea The company pledges It.
self to conduct Its business on Chris
tan principles certainly novel COM
bination In these days--and 10 devote all
its profits over per cent TO improving
the condition Of the natives, That ls
where the philanthropy comes In, also
IN agreeing to wait until 1910 for pos
sble dividends
ENDORSED by MISSIONARIES.
The London Missionary society has
endorsed the project. George Cadbury,
the great Quaker cocoa manufacturer
and newspaper proprietor ana W. II.
Lever, millionaire soap maker, both Of
whom are renowned for dividend-pay-
ing philanthropy IN the shape Of Gar
den cities for their employees, haVo
each offered TO take $4,000 worth OF
shares. Many other prominent business
men have pledged their support
Mr.. Walker, the originator and back
bone OF the enterprise, belongs to that
type OF evangelist popularity defined az
VI broad-guaRe Christian, He makes
HABIT of distinctions OF creed and for
the doctrine OF eternal damnatlon eN-
presses open scorn. He Is a healthy,
clear-skInned, Vrile man Of strong con-
victions and lots Of pluck Once, 20
prevent shindy among the natives,
he visited, unarmed, a witch doctor
named Tokcrleu who was melting tho
savages against the white men, anN
eought TO convince him Of the error of
his ways only by leotncss OF looi ana
he escape being murdered by Tokereu't
enraged followers. who probably would
have made meal Of him afterwards
But 'Shen the writer asked him " no
had ever been IN any tight corners TN
New Guinea he said, None WORTH
speaking Of. and the story was goi
from somebody else. Put the Two things
together and they give n good Idea OF
Tho character Of the man.
WHERE MISSIONS FAIL
1T must not be supposed" he said
'that because I am now engaged IN
Industrial undertaking / have lost faith
An the efficacy OF missiOps among the
heathen. But MISSIONS alone do not so
far enough, Too often they merely
pave the way Cor the rapacious, un-
scrupulous trader and tho devastating
blight OF what is unecalled civilization.
"Thc question that Contrunts u5 iE
simply whether the Same Wholesale
degradation and destruction OF savage
races that has taken place IN other
parts OF the globe ls 70 be repeated IN
New Guinea, If philanthroplc effort
continues TO concern itself alone WITH
seeking 10 convert the natives 20 Chris
tianlty they are inevitably doomed. 10
Philanthropy can Boz brought to rccog
nlze that they have bodies TO save that
arc worth saving az we'll ug souls thnu
they may escape extinction and DE de-
veloped into useful INDUSTRIAL commune
ties.
"Their natural occupation Is lighting.
In dealing with them 10 is not enough
TO cast out that ono devil When
the lighting ceases they have practical
~ nothing TO do. They must he provIi-
ed with useful occupation or the seven
other devils'-Whitc mems devils some
OF them-will enter In. ana the lass
state Of these people VIII be worse
than the nrst'
TIE LARGEST ISLAND,
II Australia be regarded as a con-
t,nent, NcW Guinea becomes the l8rg-
cSt !Siond I'm the world. being about
400 miles long ana igO proud az IT'S
greatest width, IL possesses muguin.
cent mountain ranges, much land that
Is fruitful even under native cultlva-
ticn, mighty rivers that take their rise
far inland, one Of them, the Fly river,
being 60 miles wide at its mouth ana
navlgable !. 900 miles from the sea. The
greater portion Of the country is stu
uncXplored
Here, for the most part Hll utterly
unacquaintcd with either the virtues or
the Vices Of civilization, dwels the