Show TilE WROMJS or WAKE RACES It has taken a gud many genera ions for the 1 urupeau nuts to discover that men ol adiOent color mean eima right tobutrcaleM witli j ustice We Iiave improved off he face of the earth the abqrigiual ht rI nhabitauts Australia audtw Zealand Tho tout man is dlsappear IllS fruiii the font and the prairie Ike the bran Ito Hottentotz and aQXsof the Cape have decimated de-cimated imported smallpox aud cheap alcohol If the Utaheitans have gained in civilization they have laud heavily for it at the ex viim of their vitality which ta new land of fevers brought from Lurope his Readily loweied Wherer civIlIzed man has come Ilito contact with savage races the alter lutavc gone to the > all There are forces working behind progress hat elitist understood and obeyed or iU woe to tiuoso onl Ignore and disregard them for Ignorancu Isdcath Even some dUeaMg that civilized man treats as trilling be shIne dauxerous and often deadly when conveyed amongst batbarous and primitive people We have herefore if we arc candid toconfcs to the infliction of Innumerable wrongs on tho savage nations and rides whom we have met in our colonizing cflcrt The expansion of KngLiud has meant the desIrer lion or the weak races unable to bear noculalion with tlie blessings of ivilizatlon Missionaries may have often acted as anodyne but Ills at least I questionable whether their teachings have always compensated for the evils of poisonous spirits and chenp firearms that everywhere have followed the plineers of new colonies lint wo arts at last bcgin liog to rccogntzu tliu truth and a dormant conscience is awakening AfrIcan races in the heart of he Dark Continent In number uaiiy millions wIlt soon be brought into close contact with the evils fix llization has already spread ill round the coast and we are debiting de-biting what sort of protection w e must Oiler them against ounflvcd Now the negro is not like lie redman red-man of America or the fragile Toly neslau easily destroyeJ Hut he can be digradedaril brutalized with drink for it will we think be id uitted that a drunken savage even If he be on occasion a devourer if its enemies Is more repuLsive huntS hunt-S sober one A taste for alcohol it acrpJlred with lightning speed l and lie dull brain of the African is unable un-able to see any ev 11 in the widest divergence di-vergence from the paths sobrIety Thus Etughish South African Com patty has undertaken to regulate the ralllc in intoxicating liquors within the Tern lories under their influence and to prevent their sale to the natives na-tives We are cure hue obligation required by the charter licensing them will be strictly adhered to though ire fear that slowly but surely In spite of strenuous effort ef-fort a taste for the excitement produced pro-duced by alcohol will follow our footsteps The Moiaium ° dan slave hunter whatever their cruelties may be eschew spirits themselves and nevcrjlruport them among the few bales of goods lu which they trafllu with those negro tribes too X > vcrful to bu cxjiloited for the slave marts Tlie Soudanese are devout followers of Islam and In fermented liquors they see perdition Wherever the Arab blood is found the Mussulman is sober at all events But it Is different with the negro For many years Ute African native iris been between the devil and the deep sea On one side the Christian trader has has offered cheap and poisonous spirits on the other he has been kidnapped by wellarmed Africm manbuuters MJIiDaily irj rcu |