The Yale expositor., 1906-02-16
BLOOD, CRUELTY AND INFAMY
COVER HIS CONTROL IN THE
CONGO FREE STATES.
THE AGED MoNARcH's GREED APP.
PALS THE WORLD BY ITS IN
HUMAN BRUTALITY.
Shocking Revelations.

an amount estimated at $15,0O0,OO0
from the rubber trade in the Congo
domaine de la Couronne), there be-
ing no trace of this in the published
accounts of the Congo administration.
King Leopold's personal property, con-
sists of 2S9,375 square kilometres, or
an area IL times the size of Eng
! land, bringing him profits on india rub
Der alone of SIS, 147 900 during the last
! 10 years.
Rev. DR.. Herbert S. Johnson, of the
Warren Avenue Baptist church, Bos-
| ton, Mass, who is touring the coun-
try in the interests of the Congo Re
form Association, says that, up to with
in a comparatively short time, ne, IKE
G.. Stanley Hall, Lyman Abbott, and
others, hesitated about taking up the
work. But the official report of the
commissioners, quite different from al
legged resumes of the same, has con-
verted him, and taking this report as
a basis, he paints a condition of things
in the territory known TO the world
as the Congo Free State" which beg
gers anything known in civilized his
tory. King Leopold appears a monster
of greed and blood, who, at the age of
! II years, destroys human life, ruins
commerce and productive land that he
may pour more gold into his Golfers.
DIR. Johnson laughed in derision
when shown the London dispatch
which says that, during the last de-
cade King Leopold has drawn an
amount estimated at $15,000,000 from
| the rubber trade of the Congo.
"He gets more than that every
year." declared DIR. Johnson. 1--WE es-
| innate King Leopold's income at $780,
! 900, 900 year. He is the richest man
in the world"
Never in the history of the
world has there been crime equal to
! the crime of King Leopold"
"In the last fifteen years he has
murdered between eight and twelve
millions OF people. He has depopu-
lated whole districts"
Every time a guard shoots ma
! tive he cuts off hand. In one small
district 5000 right hands were cut off
within six months"
king Leopold is no longer on trial.
He has been tried and convicted by his
own commission. The only thing that
| remains now is to pass sentence"
THE report of the kings own COM
mission says that the natives are
obliged to work $50 days year by way
of tax. They go into the woods two
weeks at time to gather rubber. Then
! they are allowed to stay in their viii
| lagos for two or three days. Then they
are sent back into the wilderness. To
all practical purposes they are slaves.
! And King Leopold has chosen as
/ de trih
/ He has furnished them with rapid fire
! guns and chicottes, whips formed of
! hippopotamus hide, twisted when
/ green into corkscrew shape. Inese
guards pillage, massacre and outrage,
performing every cruelty known TO
savage warfare. Let me give you one
example of the things that are fit to be
told, for many incidents are too hor-
rible to be printed.
John II. Harris, who has returned
from the heart of the Congo region,
says that, on one occasion, he saw
one of the rubber gatherers seized by
six men and stretched out on the
ground, and dashed with the chicotte
until he was a bleeding mass. You
must remember that chicotte will cut
clean to the backbone. To intimidate
4 lneY cut Ou TIE 0dnuS Ol
the men and the feet of the women.
Every time a guard shoots a native he
cuts off hand, to show that he has
not used his bullet in killing game
For the game belongs to the king. In
one small district 5000 right hands
were cut off within six months.
"In 1891 Thomas Moody went to the
mission station at Irebu. He found
there between eight and ten thousand
natives. Six years later he revisited
the place, and there were only be-
tween three and five hundred remain
ing. In 1890, fifty people out of the
original thousands were at the station.
The remainder had been enslaved, had
fled to the wilderness. or had been
killed. Most of them were dead.
Forced as they are TO live in the
open forests without protection of
any sort, thousands of these poor peo-
pie succumb to pulmonary diseases.
dying like sheep.
and beside all this, the merchants
of America should know that the rich
est rubber-producing country in the
world is being ruined In their eager
ness to fulfill the demand of their
taskmasters the poor slaves are break
ing up the vines and are even digging
up the roots"