The Bismarck tribune., 1924-09-25
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Robert Foran, newspaper CORE
spondent, accompanies the Theodore
Roosevelt expedition into Africa in
1909. They arrive at Mombasa, the
gateway of British East Africa
and then make the railroad journey
to their first camp on the game
crowded Kapiti Plains. With Colo
mel Roosevelt are his son, Kermit
and three scientific members of his
staff-Major Edgar A. Mearns, Ed
mund Heller and J. Allen Loring.
After a wonderfully successful
shooting trip in the Sotik country
the expedition camps for more hunt
ing at farm called Saigai-Sai. Co
ing next to Naivasha, the party
meets with continued good sport.
They are at Nairobi during race
week, where Roosevelt is paid every
conceivable honor. Now he is Civ
ing the main address at the Rail-
road Institute at Nairobi before a
large audience. Il believe this coun-
try has a great agricultural and in
dustrial future" he says.
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"Yet, hope that you will always
keep in mind that a real white mans
country can only be built up by
making the opportunities favorable
for the actual home maker 1t is the
actual settler, not the speculate or,
who should be encouraged. The
prime need is for the settlers who
will make this country their perma-
nent home and think of it as 50 Il;
and it is on this account desirable
that the largest possible proportion
of these men should live on farms
which they themselves own, and
make their living from the soil.
There is another point, gentle
men. So far ! have your full sup
port. Now l am going to speak at
the risk Of not receiving your sup
port. In making this white mans
country, remember that only the
avs of righteousness but your own
REAL and ultimate sc!f-interest de-
mand that the black man be treated
with scrupulous justice, that he be
safeguarded in his rights, and help
ed upward and not pressed down
ward.
brutality and injustice are cspe-
cially hateful when exercised on the
helpless. | have no particle Of pa
tience with the sentimentalists.
think that sentimentality probably
does more harm to the individuals
for whom it is invoked than brutal
ity itself.
"The native tribes hereabouts arc,
of course, hopelessly incompetent to
better themselves or to utilize this
country to advantage without white
leadership and direction, and prog
ress among them will be the ----'-
not Of years but of many genera
tions. You must occupy a position
of unquestioned mastery and leader
ship; but, for your own sakes as well
as for the sake of humanity and
morality, you must exercise that
leadership and mastery with deep
sense of all the responsibilities
which it entails.
THAT is why | so cmphatically be-
lieve in helping the missionary
whatever his creed, who labors so
sincerely. so disintercstedly in his
field of work.
NATURALLY, l have peculiar feel
ing fer the settlers, because they re
mind me so much of the men with
whom worked and with whose as
pirations and ideals l have so deeply
sympathized in our own west.
'"But l also have most profound
sympathy for the government Off
cials, for |, too, have been govern
mcnt official. If you will consult
the newspapers of my own land, you
will find that there are a great
number of persons who can dis
semblc any liking for me.
AT the risk of seeming to preach.
and because of the sincerity of my
belief in you and the carncstness Of
my wish for your future welfare,
want to lay stress on tw0 things
especially.
'In the first place, the similarity
in SO many respects of your condi-
tions here to what saw in the west
nearly generation ago. This is
especially true of your failures and
Of the effect every failure produces
upon. the prophets of evil and the
men of little faith. In new coun-
try like this you have to try expert
ments, and that means you have to
make occasional failures.
"Thirty years ago, out west, in a
certain very large tract Of land-a
tract larger than all Britain--I saw
settlers come swarming in utterly
unpreparcd to cope with the pecu-
liarities of the climate and yet GER
tain that golden future lay i'm
mediately ahead Of them and would
come of its own accord
Boom towns were built where
there was nothing whatever to sup
port them, and men who knew moth
ing of farming in countries of regu-
lar and abundant rainfall, started to
farm in every direction on every
kind Of soil.
give years later the towns were
deserted or had shrunk to house
or two each; and the immense ma
jcrity of the farms'had been aban-
doned. A decade passed, and men
who knew the conditions and were
willing and able to work >hard, who
knew about dry-farming and irriga-
tion, came there; and now the land
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