Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1904-01-28

Livery once IN Wnlle IOf Ine laSC
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
lifted long Ienough to give the pub
lie a glimpse of the atrocities so
horrible, and too bad for; lone really
to believe true. The Belgium gov
eminent compels' natives to gather
rubber to pay tax WHICH the pa
ternal government has|a right to in
fict in return for protection. In
order to collect what the govern
ment considers a sufficient 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 a 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. 1t
stands a native well in hand to have
his baskets filed, for those who
do not are fogged in 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 of rawhide, the number OF
lashes being sometimes into the
hundreds. These atrocities are car
ried out by the consent of the Of
fcers of the Belgium Guard, who
are in charge of the affairs in the
Congo State. The chiefs of tribe
who refuse to gather rubber ar
captured and tortured; also women
and children who have committed
trifing offenses either are slaugh-
tered or hideously manned.
Many of the cases of inhuman
treatment of the natives are so
lOathsome that they cannot be
printed. There are many hard
ships for foreigners in Congo, and
of fourteen Americans that enlisted
in Washington for Congo service
several years ago only three of them
ever returned alive and were able
to reach the United States. They
were so weakened from disease and
labor that they were comparatively
fit for nothing when they did re-
turn.
AS told by Mr.. E. B. Huxley, one
Of the enlisted Americans: Il would
have died had l remained in South
Africa. I came to America for med
ical treatment, and doctored with a
number Of the most prominent: spe-
cialists 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 a northern
climate, and il possible to the elm
ate of the Northwestern states. I
came to Minnesota in 1902. I heard
Of the remarka bic 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. I consulted
him in Minneapolis and began doc
tOring. ~ In six months after 7 be-
gan doctoring I was we'll I had
spent much money in doctoring with
other doctors, and [ had taken
long chance on my life and had felt
that my thine had almost come I
was sick 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 I suf-
fered. Death would have been a
relief to me had it come. From the
first commencement of DR.. Rea's
treatment had great faith in him.
I owe much to him as well as thous-
ands of others who know him.
DR.. Rea, as a physician, stands at
the head Of his speciality in the
treatment of heart disease, cancer,
consumption, nervous disease, kid
ney disease and blood disease.
There is no other physician in,
America that I would trust as
quietly as I would him. He is
surrounded by a corps Of physician
specialists to assist him in his prac-
tics. 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