The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-24
MORRISON'S PRAISES
sIR CONAN DOYLE TALKS or MIS-
 SIONARY.
Lauds the Humble worker in the
 Congo As one of the Bravest and Greatest of Men of Modern | M i.se4st Times,

London. oct. 23.--The great campaign for the reform of the Congo State inau- gurated by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is receiving earnest and widespread sup port throughout the country. Clergy men of all religious denominations are enlisting In this crusade for the SUD- pression ot the greatest crime in his- tory
 MT. H. de We're Stacpo6le. the author, whose powerful book. "The Pools of Si- Ience," was directly responsible for the organization of this movement. makes an earnest -an3touching plea on behalf of the women and children who have been tortured in the Congo. He says:
 America and England have many great men, but the greatest of all Is the missionary, Morrison. It Is all very well talking of liberty in London, Chi cago, Washington, or any other safe and civilized city, but 1t Is a much finer thing to talk of it where Morrison is talking of it all alone out there face to face and in the teeth of the greatest enemies that liberty has ever seen.
 q am sorry Morrison was not con- victed, for if he had been such a thun derstorm as never has been seen would have broken up and spokeR at last on this subject on which, to her shame, she has been dumb for so many years.
 "Ie I have been fought nothing else by all this have been taught that the spirit of chivairy exists at the present day not mostly among women. and that
 has given me the idea that women and children may do for this tremendous question what men have refused to do. sThe dreamers of the past had faith in the power of the purity of children. and they organized the children's cru- .sade against the inhdeIs who held the tomb ;. SsaGhEiAt :. lsI sss,.,,,o,.,, ,o Iyosr psarts now Tine Ieng ago turn CTS of America and England can catch 4lleir own living children to their hearts. ana set their feet on the path of new crusade in the name of the children who Ahave been murdered, and the children who are being murdered. and the children yet unborn of the most miserable people in the world A peo- pie whose slave charter bears the sig natures of America and England. 7 "In AYheriea and in England are null titudes of great t-hearteds women. Let some of these call the children of the nation around them. ask them to put their signatures. or. if they are very small, their marks to great petition to the fathers of the nation. and ask them to give of their charity to lib- eratiOn IunQs anu het uuc 8fS1b uaJ apart for this great work. ,
 Tn the name of the children of the Congo, I ask you to appeal. through the mothers. to the children-of America and England. e9 .4asa11
 j, T am sick of statesmen. I am sick of politicians. They seem to have no pow CT. am sick of standing armies stand ing idle and navies used to protect trade routes. am sick of expediency. l,saf m 0Taad and gold.
 T see Morrison standing like new Savior before Pilate. The moment Is tremendous and dramatic. Christ, so long denied in the antions of His wor- shippers. is watching. Who will help? 1 see no one but the women and the children.
 gium has grown fat during his Congo tour Is not of so much interest to me as the fact that the Bakuba people are starving, that they have no time to hunt for food, all their time ping re- ouired to hunt for rubber. In the words of one of their women: The men go out hungry into the forest; when they come back they get sick and die"
 MT. Edgar Wallace. who visited the Congo for the purpose of investigating the charges made against the Belgium officials, describes the devastation of entire districts by sleeping sickness and the heartless indifference of the au- thorities, which is responsible for thou sands of deaths.
 decisive victory over the Congo and by the champions of the natives was made known In this week by cablegram an- nouncing the acquittal of Messrs. Morri- so and Sheppard, the two American who were the defendants in an audacious lawsuit brought by the Kasia Company, notorious rubber posure of their atrocious treatment of the natives.
 The company claimed lseavy damages for "calumnious denunciation." but the made a determined hght and were eventually victorious.
 Practically all the Bishops attending the Church Congress are supporting the present campaign for reform in the