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Show A BLOT 0V OEItJIAM-. The statement conveyed iu the telegrams a Tew days ago to the effect ef-fect Uiat Germany had given permission per-mission to resume tho slave trade in tho-c portions of Africa recently acquired by that country, has been confirmed. Connected with this re-establish menl of the traffic In hum in beings is a further permit to enable dealers to recover escaped tr fugitive slaves. In taking this step Germany leaps backward more than haira century iu Uie inarch or progressive civilization. civiliza-tion. Tho highest function or a powerful naUon is to Inaugurate ind operate maures lor the amelioration and advancement of inferior races, who kr .,- process comeunder their protectorship. protector-ship. It is a sacred duty nnd the lowct form of its perversion Is to degrade the helpless people or dependencies. de-pendencies. A slave dealer Is wor-e than a murderer, becausu the ihiminable traffic In human Ulngs necessarily Involves tho crime of Ukin life, which heinous offense is Uius coupled with the criminality or the inhuman trade iteeir. A government that fosters tho unnatural un-natural condition which keeps IU victims twlow the situation of the bruUs creation, is jKir-ticept jKir-ticept criminu, and the people whose rulers thus offend every high principle and InsUnct. If ther rmt ralsean unmistakable protest against such infamy are proportion-illy responsible. re-sponsible. It Is a matter of regret to observe symptoms on Uie part of Lord Salisbury's Salis-bury's government of condonlngGcr-many's condonlngGcr-many's posIUon. This cornea with lid grace from the admlnlstraUon ofa country, which has been fhe foremTst In lho world in endeavoring endeavor-ing to acUvely suppress Uie .slave trade ou the eastern liemlsnhrn.. and has sacrlfiej much property and numbers or lives in prosecuting the noble work. It Is an old truism Uiat there Is but ocestep between the sublimo and ridiculous. Tho distance which divides civilizaUon rrom barbarism U no greater. When a civilized uaUon so far forgets its duty to humanity hu-manity as to sancUon and encourage slavery It takes the stride and plunges into the slough of barbaj-I'm. |