New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-05

be taught. a blacksnith's forge and a printing
Office, herds OF cattle and goats storehouses
stocked with industrial Implements fields fenced
and planted and compound for a mixed force
Of teachers. mechanics and farm laborers. It Is
plain, homely gospel of labor that Is taught
at the mission stations. whether large estates
like Umtan In Mashonaland or lodges IN the
vast wilderness OF Angola Tn. bishops face
lights up with enthusiasm as he turns the pho
tographs and "reminiscences of his work are sug-
gested- For ten years he has been visiting these
scattered stations and witnessing the growth OF
the mission congregations the reinforcement OF
the white staff from America with black minis
tiers and teachers and the increased facilities for
accomplishing a great work among degraded
races Results have already justified the eff
forts which have been made by Methodists to
bring about the reclamation and development OF
the native races; and there will be a large re-
turn in the future for organized work, since
commanding sites have been occupied on the
railway line from the Cape to the Lakes and
the Nile. and on the lateral routes to the Indian
Ocean.
A pioneer missionary bishop in the heart OF
tropical Africa needs TO be an optimist and
Bishop Hartzell is one. Where Cecil Rhodes IN
vision of Imperialism saw the map all red be-
low the zambezi and northward the railway
heading for Cairo. the hard working missionary
forecast the transformation OF a continent by
agencies Of civilization and progress He con-
sidered the Boer blessing In disguise be-
cause British supremacy would promote the
moral order OF humane treatment OF inferior
races and the spread OF enlightenment and JUS
tice. He has not altered his views respecting
the responsibility Of the Dutch leaders for the
outbreak Of an unnecessary conflict nor the
humane treatment which was received by Boer
families in the concentration camps; nor has he
hesitated to defend the employment OF Chinese
labor IN a thinly populated continent where an
immense amount Of work is in progress for the
extension OF railways. the development OF mines
and the construction OF roads. He contends that
instead of the Chinese dsplacing the blacks in
mines and agriculture there is work for half a
million of Kaflrs If they will come forward and
do II, and that no body Of foreign Iaborers has
ever been treated with more consideration, kind
ness and humanity than the so-calIed yellow
slaves. about whom British electors have been
greatly exercised during campaign Of defana-
ton. The bishop found leisure during his busy
years Of missionary labors to make a careful
survey of the labor, mining and school questions
in the British territories, and will report the
results 10 the religious communion Of three
millions whose working representative he is 1t
will be an optimistic report, without rnisgivings
respecting the introduction of Chinese labor
under the disguise of slavery. He considers
that Oriental labor has been required for meet
ing an immediate emergency, and has been
brought in with adequate safeguards without
any approach to slavery. and that ultimately it
will be unmixed gain 10 China itself when
thousands of trained wOrkmen return from
South Africa 10 promote industrial development
of their own country. These may be contro-
versial questions. but the disinterestedness and
zeal of the bishop himself cannot be challenged
American Methodists have right to be proud of
their missionary bishop. who is studying and
seeking 10 work out the overwhelming issue in
Africa-the native problem, and the share that
the blacks ought 10 have in the benefits of evan
gelization and progress. Y F