Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-01

Is. 1910 It was not intrusted to the
Liberian postal authorities for obvious
reasons Of caution. postscript to the
communication requests that reply be
sent by way of "Blierag, French Ivory
Coast, in care of the chief Of Kablaka,
River Cavalla, Liberia" The same post
script states that copy Of the COM
munication has been sent simultaneously
to the American government"
That the Liberians, copying the condi-
tions Of slavery in the United States from
which they escaped, have made them
selves masters and imposed the yoke
upon the natives. treating them despite
in subsection by acts of oppression, burn
ing their homes and wantonly killing
| their youth. making ruthless and unrea-
sOnable war upon them. is the first count
of the indictment against the republican
government and people.
The imposition of custom tax is "un-
just and hardship made unbearably
onerous because the levy is increased
many times what the law authorizes
when imposed by the local authorities,
according to the bill of particulars.
Chronic poverty is the result, says the
chronicle.
Chief Blot on Liberals Domination.
Failure to stop intertribal war; encour-
aged rather than put down by the Ii
berlans Liberals own never-ceasing
! controversies with the aborigines and the
rapine and plundering OF her soldiers.
the frontier police. ARE the chief blots on
Liberals domination
The paper recites what purport to be
| the conditions of the present controversy
between the Grebo tribe Of Cape Palmas
/ ana the Liberians, making a prima facie
case against the negro republic The
trouble began when the frontier police
shot a member of an allied tribe on the
Cavalla river. The same tribe In re-
prisal, got the lives of three police AS
allies, the GrebOs were blamed by the
Llberians, and two members of that
| tribe. pursuing occupations among the
Llberlans. We're slain. The Grebos. fearing
what had happened before, a sudden at
tack. made stockades about their villages,
an act accepted as declaration of war,
and the trouble is on in good fashion. So
reads the communication from King
Gyude.
The failure of the Liberians to provide
schools for the education of the aborigines
Is another source of discomfort Then
the charge is made that senatorial rank
by subterfuge, is withheld from them, al
though many of their men are possessed
of all the required legal qualifications.
Then there are other offenses they
might have recited, the paper says but
will not mention at this time, as they
are minor grievances.
King Gyude's Indictment.
The entire communication is as fol-
| lows:
Bigtown. Cape Palmas, Liberia.
February Is. 1910.
To the American Colonization Society:
Sirs-In the year 1884 a batch Of black
colonists just freed from slavery in Amer
| lea reached our shores in search of a
home. Plying their condition and re-
! joicing in the anticipation that by their
settlement among us the benefits of Chris
| tian enlightenment and civilization would
/ be disseminated among the youth Of our
! land, our fathers opened their arms and
extended a cordial welcome to them. A
| treaty was signed between the colonists
and our fathers, in which, in Difference
| to their acquisitions in intellectual and
material advancement, our fathers were
| willing to accede to them the government
of the country under the style OF the
| state of Maryland in Liberia. In this
| treaty our fathers reserved to themselves
| and their posterity the use of their farms
| and villages as well as their fields When
! in 1856 the state of Maryland appealed
to and was Incorporated into the republic