Show INDIANS IN BONDAGE IN THE PERUVIAN JUNGLES natives in slavery are flogged mutilated or OP otherwise tortured at will of inhuman Ma masters washington with tho the transmission to congress on by president taft of a special state department report compiled by american consul 1 fuller at iquitos peru on the anglo saxon exploitation of south american indians in the ya district of peru pem and conclusions on the same subject by frederico fre deraco alfonso peruvian minister to the united states were made public by the state department it is shown in consul fullers report that tho the helpless people of the putumayo district were victims of ct a medieval system of barbarous oppression wielded by the peruvian amazon company an english concern which works the rubber fields in the upper amazon country it Is asserted that when the indians indiana failed to bring in a toll of rubber sufficient dent to satisfy the overseers of the company flogging mutilation and sometimes death followed debt is declared to have been the chain with wah the indians were fettered dy by being forced to buy more imported goods than they ever could hope to pay for they have ibave been reduced to what consul fuller found was virtually slavery |