Show uncle sam sain asked to interfere in the slave trade in the new Ife hebrides brides NEW YORK nov I 1 ag G TRIBUNE dispatch san Fran francico civo chronicle series to seek the aid of this government in suppressing the alie slave traffic of the mission of the venerable dr john G paton who comes from the now hebrides to petition the united states to help stop kanaka labor traffic between Poly polynesia Pol ynasia nagia and queenland for the head of the now hebrides presbyterian mission these islands cordin oc cording g to dr paton form the pro present great slave mart of the world natives exchange 0 o their boys and girls for fire arms or liquor offered by thaders who carry away the children and dispose of many of them thein to queenland sugar planters while others are taken to now caledonia or made to work in the pearl shell fisheries in torres straits it was duo due to dr paton that in 1885 a royal commission ivas was appointed which laid before tho the world the record of and murder growing out of this barter queenland however demanded cheap kanaka labor and stringent ut regulations wore fiade makoby by the british government inen t which for a time seemed to cor the abuses until tho the trade became genuine g ondino labor traffic le tins traffic was abolished in 1890 1800 but owing 4 to iao tho the difficulty in procuring cheap chap labor for Quo onland plantations tho the british government liag hag decided recently to lempon it and to this DA D paton objects ile ho said today to day tho the slave traffic is going on in the now hebrides just as openly as it was sonio some years ago two shiploads ship loads of unfortunate boys and girls dragged from the island loft only recently in one vessel in another an othor fifteen or sixteen vessels are constantly hovering about the islands to 0 got banakas Kati ahas away by fair or foul moans A father will sell his boy for one musket while for a girl he demands two muskets mus kots for similar bribes the chief tian of ono one tribe will kidnap the natives of another island and give them up to white slave tr adois one of my reasons for coming b hero here is to try to got get this country to agree with great britain france and germany to prevent the continuance of those autra outrages tragos ou es salt lake times |