Show ImI O CI fH L I Lionel Decle who has recently r re reo returned turned to 10 after aeter a 11 thorough study of ot Central Africa predict that tho within a few reI years tho the former Carmer Dark Continent will become an Important factor In the tue economic World He lie says there ato great natural resources and ana abundant cheap labor The former statement Is no doubt douht true truo but hut the thi lat hat latter latter ter let may nitty bo be doubted In Iii fact may bo be denied with no na fear ear of o successful con That Central Africa has Ims abundant natural resources all travelers through It II And most people are lire very VOt Ct Opt to be ho struck with Ith a country lossi anti and predict great Ireat things thing fur for It forgetting that the best and most abundant natural resources are nr of oC entail account If IC there theN ID is lacking hacking a large ami and energetic population to take ad all advantage vantage of ot them Central Attica Africa has hns no such audi population anti and to talk of at nn an abundance of at cheap labor there In is to Ii talk wildly There is an on abundance or o wild and savage men there who do what they the do very ery cheap They are re Iti III ii iino no semite laborers the best of ot them are ate but porters anti and oven oen reliable porters portent have havo to come corne from Crom Zanzibar It Is 18 true that railroads are arc being pushed Into th Interior and that telegraph lines are nt crossing cro It unit Hut the tho few white men lien who are aro there therl are either In the tho military or civil service They Time ate not nol there as 09 colonists to develop tho tue Countr 11 re resources reo sources by b building factories tilling the tho soil loll and pasturing tho the hinds They Tho ate are there thore to exploit the country that Is all nil The Inhabitants of or Central Africa are today toda as they were In the days of ot He lie Herodotus Herodotus as a they the were when Speko and Burton Norton Livingstone anti and an Stanley pene tho the Daik tribes In the tIme tropics lo IIO not nol develop Into Inlo good gOOI laborers and good white laborers who tho may lila go to the trap tropIcs lea degenerate they thuy cannot help It Nature In the form t rm of oC climate IB Is h against them It 11 will be V against them In Central Africa as 1111 It has brie been eln elsewhere There are aro plenty of ot possibilities In Central Africa anti and It will eventually be his redeemed from Crom barbarism but It Ith ItIs itI h Is I more than titan doubtful It If II It will become a l great factor In the tue economic world All the time material possibilities In the are an as but dead matter until touched by h the hand of Intelligent la labor her bor borWhat What Whal General Africa AttIca wattle wants U Is I this In Intelligent labor and It will take genera geneta generations and generations before her say sav savages sa ages lIell and cannibals can be transformed from forest rovers myers Into approximately Intelligent laborers Central Africa will not disturb the economic world to any considerable extent during dunIn the twentieth century |