Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1922-03-24

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ley to Paris and told him, on behalf OF
the New York Herald, which he
owned, to Find Livingstone" interior
Africa was unknown, except for short
trips after ivory and the unimportant
explorations of Baker and DuChallieu.
DR.. Livingstone was then somewhere
! near the equator dead or alive, no one
knew. The latter's explorations seem
to have been more for self-gratifica-
ton than from the standpoint of sci
ence; he kept no scientific records,
and only a formal diary Stanley
opened Africa to the eyes of the world
on his first trip, and attracted the COW
etous eyes of the colonizing nations of
the world towards it, and made him
self so valuable that he was obliged
to devote his after life to work along
the lines OF exploration and empire
building. England gained much from
his work; Leopold Of Belgium fostereu
and acquired the vast Congo basin
with it's wealth of ivory and rubber,
and Germany, France and Portugal all
struggled for hoothold in the rich
wilderness, that comprised almost a
continent,
Notwithstanding her record for sue
cessful colonization the history of Eng
land in Egypt is charter of horrors;
so far as the natives were concerned,
the occupation of England Of the land
of the Pharoahs was one of subjuga-
ton and conquest; the harshest meas
ures were customary in Egypt, and
under the reign of Leopold in the
Congo The obvious result was the
Gordon incident at Kartoum later, and
the uprising against Emin Pasha in
Equatorial, which caused English SO.
Ecieties to organize the last Stanley ex.
petition. King Leopold invited the
expedition to go in over the Congo
route.
Stanley was very great many in
many ways. He was naturally very
forceful and went after results in q
way which gave very little thought to
consequences by the way. He had
found that he could not govern both
the Upper and the Lower Congo per
sonally and made a contract with a
notorious slave dealer and hunter, lib
bo-Tu. to assume vice regal power
This step, which he explains by say
ing that he used the native slave hunt
er. as he would any other weapon, was
indirectly the cause of the disOrgan
ization and near failure of the Emil
Pasha expedition, which cast shadow
over the later life of the. explorer
One can imagine how the different ma
tions, that were then in the great eff
fort to obtain part of Africa, brOugh
every influence good and bad, to beal
upon the wicked and unlettered Tibbo
Tu; how the plans of the explore
went wrong at every turn because o
jealousy of the several nations whit
wanted the rich land. However, as {
result of the explorations and discov
cries of Stanley, and his hardy band
the darkness of Darkest Africa was
penetrated. and the world made vastly
richer and greater by the addition o.
the great natural resources of another
continent.
Shinzel speaks of Stanley with love
and devotion, saying that he died Of
a broken heart. He claims that ever
Stanley's reports and those of his Off
GERS to him, we're edited and censored
before publication, in order that Ger
tain powers might be favored in thu
division of the vast spoils which tn,
continent offered In the intercours,