The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1922-08-19
THE OPEN DOOR POLICY OF THE LII
BERIANS AS RELATES TO THE BLACK
MAN FROM OTHER PARTS OF The
WORLD MUST EVENTUATE In GOOD TO
THE NATION.

to the West Coast or Africa the writ
er hsd an opportunity OF getting
many practical illustrations OF this
spirit One could see at glance that
many OF the men that had been sent
out there to occupy various post did
not represent the best type OF Eu-
ropean--at home they were the ordi-
nary servants and knew nothing q
Africa they have their first exDers
ience at being served. They become
dictators and overlordg Of the people,
Il was noticed that they had servants
at every beck and call. and the small
est deputy becomes far more impor
tant than the Prime Minister of Eng
land or France. At the hands OF snch
inflated DULLES the natives can ex-
pect nothing but life OF rigor. Per-
haps the most grinding experience
one witnesses there is to see our peo-
Pile driven from early dawn till late
at night by the foreign masters In
the black mans own land-to look
at 1t, one realizes what they have to
pay for being backward in this world.
Few men can be elevated suddenly
from q mental to . position OF power
and influence with the destiny Of
others in his hand that will not loose
their head--you only get true con-
ception of European governed Africa
as you have picture like that in
mind. They cannot argue that what
they do is for the good of the ma
tives because they seek to keep them
In ignorance OF conditions in the out
side world. During a stop at DalSar
Senegal. you see stationed around the
governors mansion black soldiers in
uniform day and night say these
men were In uniform but were bare
feet. l venture the assertion that his
much guarded highness was almost
unknown in France until he went to
Africa. All along the coast one notes
this slave like depression in the spirit
Of the natives. Passing Morocco and
other parts Of North Africa we shall
as it holds for us the greatest in
| terest at this period of British oc-
cupation. The words Sierra Leone"
are kind of compromise between
Spanish and Portuguese language, and
| as l have stated In previous article,
was so named from the terrible thun-
| der storm that ragged there that made
the hills and mountains roar like a
mighty host of lions when II was
some distance out into the sea on
turesque mountainous peninsula with
\ bold foot hills facing the ocean front
The geological uDheavel in nature
which left these hills in its wake
| has broken for all time the dull mon
otony OF swampy flat coast land
the traveller as he sails toward the
equator. Perhaps these are the hills
and mountains of which Homer wrote
and praised their beauty. Be that al
Il may. they SO impressed the Por.
tuguese when they first saw thi,
wonderful denomination of natures
| handiwork-they dubbed IL Sierr,
Leone. It was in 1852 when the first
British ship called at this place under
command of Sir John Hawkins. a
British trading citation was established
and from that time on Sierra Leone
has been a regular port of call fol
English ships. In later years II de,
veloped into great slave distributing
point Toward the end Of the 1871
century a fine harbor was noticed
Il Is said TO be the best on the Yves
, Coast. II must be kept In mind tina
It is a natural harbor. The grea
ocean liners stop about a half mil,
. out in stream--the shore being reach
/ ed by small boats. The passenger
amuse themselves when they do no
, care to go ashore by pitching coin
, In the sea. and despite the fact tina
: the water Is from fifty to a hundre
feet deep, boys jump from their lit
, tie boats dive and bring 1t up. Their
Is a swarm OF these divers and as al
: evidence they do well. one boy sal
i that day. They seem more at HON
/ in the water than on land. Comin
/ back to the harbor the writer was 4
! conversation with a British subjec
I VINO sa1u IL was MS government
/ policy never to spend money in haT
/ Dor improvement--he said this sam
: condition obtained all through tn
] West Indies With the expenditure
! of q reasonable amount of money tn
: largest liners could come to land a
Z Sierra Leone. II seems that the writ
: ings OF DR.. Henry Smeas....an IN whic
0 he praised the beauty of Sierra Leo:
) and its fine natural har
: Dor first attracted attention in Eng
o land in 1888. -Four or five years late
n charter was granted and the ter
b ritory was coded TO a philanthropy
}, ritory was coded to a philanthropy
I association know afterwards as tn
/ "St George Bay Company" which dc
8 cided to establish at that particula
y noint In West Africa. a settlement fc
I freed Negroes from the West Indie