Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1904-03-25 | Page 3 | Herero Uprising due to the Rapacity of German Traders

I ERE Q DUE TO THE 0 I J RAPACITY Y OF GERMAN GERMA TRADERS i 1 I BarNs D M rn t pt t PD aji ab n today lion taini numerous I poes or nt the lerno uprising In l At Atrice rice rica confirming the A wd rIL en b ble dispatches regarding the causes ur of the trouble Herr Dun a iud bosh reporting under r date March says 18 So tar far as the are lUe concerned I believe I 1 am not jim attributing I them chiefly to 10 tM the methods ds of traders m In debts is This to la pro by the monte of oC natIves nathe immediately wl before the and whit whites I with the t These Proceeded with reckless injustice against their customers either taking their eat eattie at tie In of debt at t too tow a all allOr Or else i e animals Which lid did not b long folIC to t e debtOrs go It Is reported pOrted thai t traders palmed themselves ort off among t II 1 as government officials a a 1 threatened the th natives with i un t L if their de debts t were not paid The I natives submitted without corn com plaints with the government The ha har t I against the traders thus thu for on was to ill II Germans German Chief J Judge Richter of ek G Gr Grman man Mall Southwest Africa who was 11 governor daring Governor Leutwein ai sence while quelling thE B art u nj rising ao expresses the opinion that thi Is hi du due to no the actions of wandering traders in the co lection ot of debts debt