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Show Stanley'! Remedy for Slavery. There is only one remedy for these wholesale devastations of African aborigines, abo-rigines, and that is the solemn combination combi-nation of England, Germany, France, Portugal, South and East Africa and Congo State against the introduction of gunpowder into any part of the continent except for the use of their own agents soldiers and employes, or seizing upon every tusk of ivory brought out, as there ' is net a single piece nowadays which has been gained lawfully. Every tusk, piece and scrap in the possession of an Arab trader has been steeped and dyed in blood. Every pound weight has cost the life of a man woman or child; for every five pounds a hut has been burned; for every two tusks a whole village has been destroyed; de-stroyed; every twenty tusks have been obtained at the price of a district, with all its people, villages and plantations. It is simply incredible that because ivory is required for ornaments or billiard games, the rich heart of Africa should : be laid waste at this late year of the Nineteenth century, signalized as it has been by so much advance; that populations, popula-tions, tribes and nations should be utterly utter-ly destroyed. Henry M. Stanley in Scribner's. |