The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-01-06

to their unlocking friends the conviction
/ Of the superiority of the perfected Ger
man rife to the gun that shoots water.
the depreciatory description given to the
weapon by the native sorcerers.
Countless Numbers Slaughtered.
The terrible ravages Of disease among
/ the German troops, and the cost of re-
ilIing vacancies in the ranks, led the i'm
/ perial government to turn to account an
other instrument for the conquest of the
natives. Hostile men of their own color
/ from other protectOrates, or colonies, New
/ Guinea, SOmaliland or Kamerun. were
armed and brought to German East At
RIGA. not a few Of these savage auxiliaries
being cannibals. one, whose photo took,
/ had assisted IN the digestion Of seven
prisoners. whom he had captured at diff
ferent TINES in his career. About $50 Of
/ these troops, all cannibals, who had ac-
c0mplished their bloody mission In the
/ Hnterland. near Dar-es-Salaam, were
/ re-cmbarking for their homes in New
Guinea on the ship Governor. Of the
/ German East African Line, when / was
/ i'm that port. An officer who had taken
part in the campaign informed me that
/ between 5000 and 1900 native troops, Of
fcercd by Germans, had seen service in
the war The slaughter among the
Swahilis. he said. had been enormous; no
/ accurate estimate could be given. Those
remaining were on the verge Of staTVa-
/ ton, owing to the destruction OF their
kraals and their stores. Many Of the
chiefs bad been given up by their own
/ followers to be hanged, so terrOiized or re-
/ duced were they in number. II the sup
preston Of tribal wars was the motive OF
/ the present ruler OF Germany by divine
right his campaign in East Africa had
/ been successful He has probably Killed
more natives than have succumDed IN
/ all the tribal wars Of century, ana theIe
are comparatively few left on whom 10
continue the work Of slaughter When
/ the survivors become more civilized, and
submit to toll regularly on cotton, rub
/ Der. sessile. or other plantations, their re-
ward will be- perhaps. less than 1t is now,
when labor is scarce, and can actually
command the price of nearly . cents
/ tAmerican) per day.
In every town ] visited along the Ger
man and East African coast, the most
striking feature was the chain-gang,
/ more than twenty Of which / photo
| graphed. and yet the poor Swahill when
+ left alone IN his native kraal, among MS
own people. seems the most harmless,
/ happy negro. He sings and dances with
All the gusto Of the American coon
/ his distant progeny. BY those who ought
/ to be competent judges-LivlngstOne and
+ Weissmann-he was always credited with
being faithful and honest Livingstone
never took q life, and 50 benign was the
/ influence Of this great traveller among the
natives that IL is said prior to Stanley's
| expedition. a man might walk through
Africa from one end 10 the other with
welcome everywhere. II his face was
white. Stanley's cruelties to the natives,
often shooting them when they failed TO
/ supply his subsistence trains, his re-
fusal TO pay for goods delivered, and his
brutal treatment OF his carriers, are said
/ by residents of Zanzibar. where he fitted
/ out his expedition, to have retarded At
/ rican civilization a hundred years. It
remains 20 be seen what influence the
policy Of subserviency 10 the whites. now
being inaugurated, VIII exert
Hatred of Whites.
I have visited Tanga. Dar-es-Salaam.
Bagam0ya. Kflwa. Mikindani Lindi. and
I other resorts IN German East Africa,
/ where this policy is being pursued In
I Zanzibar / saw many Bantus and Swa-
/ hills who had escaped to this island, where
/ slavery Is still a recognized institution,
and who regard the place as q haven Of
safety for those who are fortunate
/ enough to reach its shores. They regard
the 'paternaHsm' of the Aram. the Hin
du. and the Goanese as infinitely more
/ human than submission under the present
/ German regime.
/ "A continuance of the policy Of cruelty
! by the invaders is rapidly creating dread
I and hatred Of the white man through
/ out the entire native population of At
/ RIGA II is reported from many quarters
/ that this feeling is already betraying it
I self throughout the vast dominion of the
/ Congo State. and il IS the constant dread
/ Of the Briton and the Boer alike in Zulu
1 land and South Africa. where the bush
man is hunted like wolf and shot on
/ sight because Of his patriotism and his
/ refusal 10 submit TO the cruel domination
/ OF the couqueror. And It may easily
/ spread southwark and northward until
4 the entire continent Of Africa is filled
/ with hostility 10 Europe resembling that
I which 300 years ago undermined the as
! cendancy of the triumphant Spanish
monarchy
1T IS not long since a Bantu tribe ami
1 Inflated British regiment, and there have
4 been black generals developed from the
people who have founded kingdoms and
made very effective armies Europe de-
sires TO rule Africa. and intends to do il.
/ but unless she has sufficient perception of
/ her own interests not to wish to do il by
! incessant fighting. or through n system
] AraaN -. g. 4
the black races in the vast system Of
river valleys which we call the Congo
/ State. she Will fail. Europeans will not
1 rule Africa if the AIussulman mission
| aries. already thousands in number, can
/ say with truth. Where the Christian is.
J there is the habitation of cruelty
/ White Mans Burden.
IF # Be true that the question Of the
relations between the white race and men
/ Of other colors is of worldwide agita-
/ ton at this present moment-and the bur
! der of the white man is becoming very
| neavy-then let the white man remember
/ that his burden would be materially light
ened If, in his dealings with the black
race, he applied the doctrine of a square
/ deal, instead of talking so much about It,
/ As conditions exist in Africa to-day. the
work of colonization is little other than
an exhibition of. international crime. The
partitioning of that continent has been
made on arbitrary lines, each European
nation trying to outwit its neighbor in
| securing the largest share of the spoils
! No consideration has been paid to the
natural geographical lines of the CONT
merit, its mountains or rivers, its tribes.
/ its commerce. or its potentialities. In