Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-05
Former President Visits American In
land Station at Kijsbe, and
Makes Address.
OPENING UP NEW REGION
East Africa, He Says, Will Be Whit
Mans Country.
ASKS JUSTICE FOR NATIVES
Settlers Should Join Hands With the
Missionaries.
STARTS SOON FOR soTIK COUNTRY
This Requires n journey of Two Days
without Meeting wRter--Little
Danger I'm the
Trip.
East Africa, He Says, Will Be Whit
Mans Country.
STARTS SOON FOR soT1K COUNTRY

KHJABE. British East Africa, June A.
The members of the Roosevelt party who
arrived here yesterday afternoon on spe-
cial train from Nairobi, and spent the night
in camp near the railroad station, started
out this morning to visit the local station
of the Africa Inland mission. an American
organization. The party took luncheon
with the missionaries This morning Mr..
Roosevelt spent some time shooting mon
keys. particularly the colobus
r. ]. Cuninghame, the manager of the
expedition. and l.. A. Tarton of Nairobi
will stay at camp today, completing the
preparations to start on the trip into the
Sotik country. To reach this territory the
party will have to travel two days with
out meeting water.
On arriving at the mission Mr.. Roosevelt
made a thorough inspection of the insltu-
ton and afterward had luncheon with
forty missionaries and their wives and set
tiers. The Rev Mr Hurlburt welcomed
Mr.. Roosevelt to the mission.
Speech of MIR. Roosevelt.
In replying the former president ex-
pressed his pleasure at being able to see
the African inland mission. and recalled
the fact that his visit Of today was the
fulfillment Of q promise made TO Mr.. Hurl-
burt at Washington some time ago, when
the missionary was introducing to Mr.
Roosevelt at the White House delegates
of a Christian organization.
81 am glad to have seen the work per-
sonally," Mr.. Roosevelt concluded. Il am
pleased to see the settlers and to find
YOU working together, as IT would be no
credit to the missionary, the settler or
the official 10 do otherwise I have a
peculiar feeling for the settlers working
in this new country. as they remind me
of my own people working in the western
states, where they know no difference be-
TWEEN easterner, westerner, northernor or
southerner and pay no heed to creed or
birthplace.
There Is ample work to be done and
all had best work shoulder to shoulder.
believe with all my heart that large
parts of East Africa will form the white
mans country Make every effort to
build UP a prosperous and numerous pop
ulation. Hence / am asking the settlers
to cooperate with the missionaries and
treat the native justly and bring him to
q higher level.
II particularly appreciate the way your
interdenominational Industrial mission is
striving to teach the African to help him
self by industrial education, which is a
prerequisite to his permanent elevation.
1t seems to me that you are doing your
work in a spirit Of disinterested devotion
of an IDEAL
Little Danger I'm Trip.
NEW YORK, June 4.-Dr Louis l. Sea-
man OF this city, who returned today on
the Lusitania from hunting trip in Africa,
in the same region that Mr. Roosevelt will
traverse has little patience with the talk
that some travellers have INDUCED in con-
cerning dangers the former president will
run.
"A lion stands no chance at ALL" said
DR.. Seaman.
Before the hunters get shot at him,
he has been chased by the beaters until
he is so winded that there is little harm
left in him. For the most part African
hunting is about as thrilling as in English
park The one real danger is the tsetse
fly in the lowlands."
DR.. Seaman is a friend of the former
president and was at the dinner given
in honor OF Mr.. Roosevelt at Mombasa
on April 81
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