The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1907-02-21
LEOPOLD AND THE SENATE.

The New York Sun does we'll to
hurl its Incompatible arrow of wit
towards our fatuous senate, and also
= towards the trusting beard Of our
Henry Cabot Lodge. The resolutions
bearing upon the conditions in the
, Congo Free State, prepared by liter
airy and learned Lodge, and offered
to the senate through his tiny hands
and wee sma' voice, looked so very
different when they got out OF the
= senate; as different as the meal from
the grained corn poured into the
grinder. Mr.. Lodge introduced his
resolutions with view towards call
Ing down the wrath Of the gods upon
tn grizzled head of Belgium's king.
Behold them now. Scan them, If
you please:
whereas It is alleged that the ma
= tive inhabitants Of the Basin of the
Congo have been subjected to inhu-
man treatment Of O character that
should claim the attention and excite
the compassion Of the people Of the
United States; therefore be it
Resolved, That the President Is
respectfully advised that in case he
shall find such allegations are es-
tablished by proof he will receive the
cordial support of the Senate in any
step, not inconsistent with treaty or
other international obligations, or
with the traditional American for
eign policy, which forbids participa-
ton by the United States in the set
Element Of political questions which
are entirely European in their scope.
he may deem 1t wise to take in CO.
operation or in aid Of any of the
Powers signatories of the Treaty OF
Berlin for the amelioration Of the
condition of such inhabitants"
Faugh! Here we have perfectly
: nothing; nothing and yet, ALL Not
T 4 branch from the tree in the forest,
but the forest, If you please. where
as" we've heard something, and If
1t Is 80, it should claim the atten-
tion," and, more than that, "excite
whatever Of Compassion we have not
already expended in other direc-
tons" The hebetude of the senate
pains us; it can but pain truth-loving
and truth-teiling Theodore.
Further follow the senate in it's
flight. Resolved, that we will do
no more than advise the president to
go ahead as far as the bounds Of
treaty obligations, which disallow
1.-THE traveller t'other side New York,
TX he find these allegations true, pro-
hn
meddle in European affairs, and
further, that we've got troubles
enough of our own" Which, boiled
down, says hands off, plus touch not.
Pungent and singing, but just and
fair, Is the Suns summing up:
If this be the square deal Of which
we have heard 50 much, the fact Is
not Migrant to the naked eye. AS it
seems to us, President Roosevelt has
been invited to the Barmecide feast
and Is now sitting in that phantom
orgy with an empty plate
That the senate Of the United
States was too cowardly to 20 on
record against the atrocious maraud-
, ing of royal head Of Europe will
not stop the agitation civilization has
taken up against him, and against
every government that has gone into
Africa carrying death. Of course, we
readily understand the squirming Of
the United States senate; upon their
predicament we look with pity: we
scorn the cowardice Of years which
fhpir ci1nncn
RACES imperative. Very well do they
reason that dwellers in glass houses
nave no business casting stones, and
that If they set out to rcbnkp Bel
giam for oHtrages in Africa,
why should not Belgium rcbukn
us for outrages under the futtcr-
Ing stars and stipes? Which promDs
us to beg, How can the United
States in any remote period, and in
the least way, be able to assume any
permanent place as world power.
OF Influence, and clean Of skirt "
The position we are likely to occu-
by down the ages, that test with no
thought Of whence came those who
are being tested, was plainly indical-
ed. last week when the senate onib-
bed, and wept, and imagined things
not altogether vain.
Africans for the Africans" CRY
Europe. That may be afar off DO.
yond the star in evidence tonight
But this cry; Leopold must halt in
his butchery %of men and women,
and ont Of the land whose fields he
has watered with the blood Of limo
ccent natives Of the soii''---that CT,
goes ND whereYer men read ant