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Show P HELD En bondage in p jungles Iunl Fuller Gives Addi-Inal Addi-Inal Evidence on. .Alroci, 1 by Rubber Company fin South America, pi HOPE HELD . OUT FOR VICTIMS) jjves in Slavery Are Mur-U Mur-U Flogged or Olhcr-lyjje Olhcr-lyjje Tortured at Will of Inhuman Masters. ASHINGTOX Feb. 7. With tie transmission to congress today by President Taft ol" a special slate department rc- EwKpiled by American" Consul Xtf J. Fuller at Iquitos, Peru, on Bfwftfliinn exploitation of South pjcfii Indians in the Putuinayo dis-Wfetl dis-Wfetl Pra, aod conclusions on the jKi reject by Frcdcrico Alfonso Pe-kFimian Pe-kFimian minister to the United Bfe, w;t made public by the state Jfjhhller statement shows that the Bipai government has been aware of Met fop taken by American Consul Met J, Fuller, and the minister gives Bkuu that already steps have been Blk I? lis government for the im-Bitcu: im-Bitcu: of conditious in the Putu-mm Putu-mm Itrtitory. Although it -was to! it first that- Consul Fuller's of-mta of-mta hi beon rendered valueless in Btfrapttts Ivy the- espionage of Bptii of a British rubber company, B &jartment officials now are Bltht the crying abuses of which Bi"j(iiTt Indians havo been long Hfesf vieiun3, evontually -will be Mihij- iho Puiumayo district tie protection of Peruvian law, H&f icminirfration of justico, the Wjfcr points out that his govem-ti!! govem-ti!! rely largely upon the co-op-B o' tbe Boman Catholic hicr- fcom Planned. Wfa1. Pczct declares that the J1 of tho aborigines has re-MjTfrr re-MjTfrr .pedal attention and that MMstratiou has decided to erect BTt'c 6t 1(l"itofl and establish wom thEpiighont the district. Wests from theso missionn MftrayBCn' aml instructing them Erf 5i oonfiflei He Indiana tMUr protected from any L h to maltreat or brutalize mi'."? tbe Koroment. at Lima g? touch with the Putumayo ?AT im-eloss and that a flotilla BP iU patrol tho stream? ta$et0 0bV'ate a TetUrn f BjJjJl be neglected,' ' he con-K con-K 'fach can be done" to protect BawTaces frm the brutalities fftW fr crimes against Ik? J?i be .hrouht to us- Kill h0 bl.0UR-nl; bMk S .f 0Ptr "Hions can be Kjtiwt PrcHi.tent llt determined to punish the Oppression. KiSfli! Conni1 p"!,or?s "port RWrif P8or,e o th 'Jt- HVi U ? v Peruv5a-Amar.on H?ttn- ? C0D( -which m? flolds in "pp- Wht oversccrB of the Bte mntilaon and Ml f, JM h Allowed. R-'itcl ,3' bavo 'h?e r-iliT;r;OD8l,1Uor r-iliT;r;OD8l,1Uor found 'Port, fQr J out in the Bfcler fiiW,;7,an Rovornmont fc Sj? thntraveaty e.2? IBWMo bar-ftT bar-ftT oC district, IRiiAtlant; "iri',w W0-W Wfiui craft M HNS HELD II Bill! j PERU (Continued from Page One.) must traverse almost tho cntiro o300 miles of the Amazon. Railroads arc unknown and no highwavs exist worthy of the name. Jn this farawuv corner, with no moans of appeal or redress, tho Indians woro held at the mercy of tho company's overseers. Several of the overseers are doelared to have admitted admit-ted they had put .Indian.: and even while laborers in stocks for niinor.of-f niinor.of-f discs. Many of the Indians whom Mr. ; Fuller saw borp scars of Hoggings and other maltreatment. " Many Put to Death. The temptation lo abuse is imminent aud strong, especially since the white staff is offered a bouus for vigilance. Mr. Fuller reaches tbe conclusion that, considering the remoteness of the conn-try conn-try aud the poor quality of the rtibbi'r, it is unlikely that the onlerprise would pay without hard treatment of the lu-dians. lu-dians. Although large numbers of the Indians have been killed and some have escaped iuto the South Americau jungle, the output of rubber hag in creased despite the decrease in Dative population. With governmental machinery ma-chinery absent, Mr. Fuller is of tho opinion that, should tho rubber corporation corpo-ration cease its activities, I ho Indians would fall to no better lot at the hands of frecbooting; expeditions and slave raiders. Indians Bought and Sold. Mr. Fuller finds that while professing profess-ing not to approve cruel and iuhuman treatment, tho whites generally regard the Indian as having -been created by providence for the use aud benefit ot the superior race. This attitude of tho people has found concrete expressions in the universal system of peouage, an old institution which Mr. J'ullor found Well established, recognized by law and tho basis upon which the rubber business almost entire! v rests. As claims for debt arc transferable, the person of the debtor beipg transferred trans-ferred to thy new creditor, the Indians aud their families rcallv are bought and sold. While Mr. Fuller found evidence that the company had mcuded its ways to some extent, ho saw much unquestionable unquestiona-ble evidence I hat cruelties still are practiced. Dogged by Spies. While Consul Fuller was attempting to got at the facts in tho rubber field system, it i$- declared his ?icps were dogged) by the company's agents, making mak-ing it difficult for him to obtain any information but such as H was desired he should) procure. The Indians arc f-aid to have cowered and lapsed into : silence whenever the vigilant; overseers i approached. Consul Fuller hopc ultimately for i mitigation of their suffering through the efforts of President Billinghurst. of Peru. j Mr. Fullor found the Indians not I wild and untamable, but inoffensive and childlike. It was tbe disclosures made by Sir Eoger Casement, British consul goneral at Uio Janeiro, who investigated the situation in jf10 that influenced the state, department to order the investigation investi-gation made by Consul Fuller. Victims Tortured. Sir "Roger found that among other things the Peruvian Amazon company imported 200 Barbadoes men, who. upon their arrival in the rubber district, were armed with Winchester rillcs and sent into the junalc to capture and enslave Indians dwelling along the upper Amazon Ama-zon tributaries. The British consul found that in the exercise of this illegal ille-gal compulsion, the Tndiaus were murdered, mur-dered, flogged and otherwise tortnrcn, the company, through its agents, fore.' ing the Barbad'oos men actively to participate par-ticipate in iho atrocities in "order to compel the helpless natives to scour the forests and bring in rubber upon (heir backs from the remote districts. The Barbadoes men in turu complained of harsh trcatmeut accorded them by agents high up, who denied them food as a means to compel them to drive the Judiaus to further extremes. The entire plan of operations seemed to be based upon a system of oppression oppres-sion from the highest to the humblest in tbe employ of tho company, which is declared to have wielded always an iron hand from the far-away London office. |