The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1922-01-07

the spread of European diseases and
TO the rating of the Arab and ma
tive Adventures who had obtained
possession of modern fire arms,
The small village communities of
tropical Africa were quite unable
to stand up against the brigand en-
terprises of mere bands of ruffians
armed with rifles. The scramble
for Africa on the part of the Eu-
ropean great powers towards the
close of the nineteenth century,
scramble largely dictated by eco
nomic appetites, did little to miti-
gate the miseries and distinctions
in progress by establishing sort
of order through large areas of AT
RIGA. sort of order that in some
regions was scarcely less cruel than
the disorders il replaced. But it
continuing access to the resources
of Africa is to be maintained and if
a return to the Arab raider and
general chaos and massacre is to be
avoided it is clear that in some
form the control of the central parts
of Africa by the modern civilized
MOflu must continue.
But we must be clear upon one
point If that control is to be main
tanned as at present II Is maintained,
by various European powers act
ing Independently of one another
and competing against one another,
in the not very remote future Cen
trail Africa was one of the great
prizes before the German magma
ton in 1914 and it is now held in
. state of unstable equilibrium by
the chief European victors in the
Great War. AS they recuperate, the
African danger will increase. Africa,
next after eastern Europe and the
Near East in likely to become in
: the course of a dozen years or so
) the chief danger region of the
2 world.
3 Universal Peace Link.
4 II behooves all those who are
. dreaming of an organized worlC
9 peace through an association of ma
D tions to keep this African rocl
5 ahead in mind and to think out the
: possible method of linking this grea
: region with the rest of the worlC
e in universal peace scheme.
2 | submit that it is not premature
: for those who are concerned will
: the future of our race to consider
5 the necessity of three chief things
5 "a, The complete abandonment
4 and prohibition now of enlistment
: and military use of the African ma
( tive population.
e (2). The application of the prin
> cipal of the Open Door and equa
Z trading opportunities for all com
: ers in the regions between the Sa
hara and the zembesi.
(3) A more organized care o.
the native African population by {
tightening up of the existing res
strictions upon the arms and drink
trade and the development of some
sort of elementary education
throughout Africa that will give
these very various and largely still
untried peoples chance of show
ing what latent abilities they have
for self government and participa.
ton in the general human common
veal.
For my own part, it seems to me
that any real league or nations,
any effective Association of ma
tions," must necessarily supersedt
the existing empires and imper
ial systems and take over their alie1
, possessions" and that one com
mission. embodying the collective
will of all the efficient civilized ma
tions of the world is the only prac
ticable form of security for all thos'
parts of Africa incapable or not YET
capable of self government
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