Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-30
What Is to Come

Arizona, or New Mexico lands, no native blacks
could subsist on if confined to limited sections,
lands which none but the most scientific mod
ern farming could render profitable.
And given the survival and increase OF the
blacks what then the future of the country!
Of course bar the arising of unthnkable con-
ditions, equatorial Africa must remain, tor
generations anyway, under white adrninistra-
ton; at least until universal consent should be
reached to withdraw and let the blacks work
out their own problems, which IS lnconcelvabe,
as meaning certain reVerS1on to stark SaVaRerE.
And throughout such period, be it long or
short, it is inevitable that many thousands of
the adventurous disconnected of all white
nationalities will go there as settlers.
The Outlook for Settlers
WHAT are their chances, Good, capital
w none better anywhere, be they lazy or
ambitious.
First, with reasonable observance of the
laws of sanitation and hygiene, whites may
preserve reasonable average good health there,
with no greater peril of malaria than one runs
to-day in many sections of this country, and
less danger of pulmonary diseases than our
climate is ever threatening. This opinion,
well know. is antagonzed by Winston Church
ill; but as against it stands the fact that the
officials, missionaries, and settlers one meets
out there men and women resident there any
where from ten to twenty years are obviously
as sturdy sound, and vigorous a lot on the
average one meets anywhere IN the tenn
perate zone. To be sure the little churchyards
are not empty OF gravestones-nor are they
long empty anywhere else in the world where
men have inclosed them. Lieutenant Governor
Jackson and c. W. Hobley c. N. G., of British
East; S. c. Tompkins c. NJ. G., Chief Secretary
of Uganda James Martin and Father lame all
there resident varying periods from fifteen to
thirty years, are types of soundness and OF ply
steal and mental activity any man of their years
would be glad and proud of.
Nor are the men here cited exceptions. Such
types are the rule; possibly, very likely, in
fact, because, precisely as Joaquin Miller once
explained the high type Of the average Cali
fornia Forty-niner by contending that :" the
towards never started and the weak died on
the road SO do few feeble of body or soul ever
ship for Central African ports. Of course they
have "livers"; but, if you ask me, believe the
alleged typical tropical liver" is less due to
conditions climatic than to too frequent inn
placement by peg of whisky.
Secondly, for that hardy, tireless stout
hearted, but always restless though usually in
dolent class or type of pioneers of the sort to
whom indebted for the winning of all
North America from savagerv-the path
finders the treeless plains, the trail
blazers through forests. where danger if not
death beset them at every step, the venturers
in frail bark craft far out over unknown and
hostile waters, the trappers and the traders, the
men of the coonskin cap and squirrel rifle, the
women of Drawn and freckles and fustisul
frocks, the folk of the log cabin and the little
patch of maize and potatoes,-for all such
equatorial Africa is paradise.
Gone are they ALL do YOU say? Gone with
the times and conditions that developed them?
Never will they be gone SO long as blood flows
in Anglo-Saxon veins-or in French or Ger
man for that matter; for it's lot we owe them
both. Never will they be gone so long as bold
spirits are able to find wild places where they
fancy they find larger independence and per-
sonal freedom than the teeming centers of civ
ilization afford.
Natural ADVANTAGES
THERE their beasts may stay fat the year
round on wild feed, no forests must be
felled to build and plant there a man may
plant till, harvest every day in the year if he
likes, or, if he be lazy, SO fecund is the soil that
a few weeks work in the fields will keep a
family in plenty throughout the year; there,
at certain favored attitudes, orchards NAV be
seen standing amid fields of ripening wheat,
oats, and corn, wherein apples p1ums, apricots,
etc, are thriving beside oranges, lemons, ba-
nanas figs, pineapples, pomegranates, papavas,
while hard by gardens grow in profusion any
and every vegetable it has suited the owners
fancy to plant; there, in otherwise favored sec
tons, the rubber tree, the fiber plant, sisal,
cocoa, coffee and score of other plants or trees
yielding fourfold the crop value of any products
of the temperate zone may be cultivated; there
all about, in most parts, wild meat is to be had
for the shooting SO one has bought the small
(settler's) license" Ease is there for the easy