| Show CONGO ATROCITIES A meeting was vaN nl held haul In Hoston n a few ew day 1111 igo for the purpose o of o entering n II protest t against the sufferings and 1 which the tho natives of ot the Congo StiltS state II hi Ie now enduring at t the hands of ot those tho e who nr lire are In ill authority over owr them lor char have made that the affairs of ot the Congo COli go state are nr such as a to call raU for tor tho the Interference of the world In the name of ot humanity ansi It Is III Isto isto to 10 b he bes feared that th this the charges ITO are but hut too w well ell ll founded notwithstanding lIn the do Ito ninis registered r II by y those these responsible for tor forthe the tho mismanagement ml The history of ot the tho ono Free Iren forms n lark leaf heat In the an ann n b of oC modern civilization After the explorations ot of Stanley It t was WIS as evident that the Interior of nf Africa was n a fruit trull fruitful ful Ui fUld of exploration An association was Willi consequently formed ostensibly oten for tor the tite further exploration of at the Congo na The aim of ot the association wn wall MId to h philanthropic and on that ground It WM endor endorsed d by h various a gov o In an Rn International con was 31 held heist hol l at lit Berlin and an as n a nrc result rc of or the tho deliberations there tile the association wan recognized reco as IS the Inde lade Independent Independent pendent State of or the Congo with Ith King Leopold of Belgium nn M Its Ita sovereign Tho Tim new nell state pledged Itself to seek the moral material regeneration and maro of ot tho the Congo natives natell The on Its Ita part PUI assumed tho the 1 position pollIon or of guardian gu nail the tha powers flOwers composing It bound themselves to watch over Oler and euro care for or tho the native tribes Tho Thu United 1 States State lI II a 11 party to that conference and stands standa pledged with ith thin other ether powers to watch over oer the native tribes but Secretary Root hoot has hns Indicated In n II definite manner the Im irn Impossibility rn possibility of or direct Interference by tho the United States 8 government In the at af affairs fairs tulU of ot this African nation and that I is isse we se believe bellon the position lollIon of ot tho the other powers too The British government has Interest Interested ed ii 11 Itself lit I II the matter to the tho th extent of making u a thorough Inquiry Case Cn o meat ment th jha British consul In Lower Con Congo Congo Congo go found the situatIon wis ts much worse than hud hei J been n Angry protests prot stil arose MOM In III inch In the Belgian parliament denounced the Ih Congo Cons government ait liS an ott enormous and un 1 continual butchery und and 1111 1 his hili friends cynically dinted till thu truth of ot these but the report prove thit millions of on thi th Congo were lere tho the mo most st t horrible hardships veil were brutally tor tort t lured u ltd if It they did not perform p a u cerium amount ot of lubor IIII hail had hands or ur led leel cut off oct while hile others othera were svere mill mal maltreated treated In other othor ways Civilization became n 0 curs curso Ur to the tho block black people Many were lIero killed because they thoy failed to furnish the Iho nuj ply of ot rubber or ci Ivory her of or I them ln If It they Ully to do the tho th of King FIng ver subjected 1 to 10 tho most horrible ties Uell such tin 1111 being burned cut up with axes ansi and other tortures which thi tho mInds of or monsters can oun devise Hut tho th powers fowers that pledged tn to watch over the tho tribes arc aro slow sov to 10 ful tul fulfill U Unil till nil their duty lut I A Congo reform association ulI however ha hUH has been formed for tor the t he purpose o e of ot arousing arou the iii world to ri II realization of or orIts Its duty In lit regard to the tha affairs of ot the tho Congo Conso basin ansi we hope hupe It will con can continue Its work until the th natives shall not hot have ilave cause to 10 1 day on which the white whit man first was waft hospitably received In their primitive huts hUll Why hy Is It that Christian civilization tion nearly always carries with It no esa IIi much muth cruelty ami crime Mohammedan don dan though It be he ut lit present Is II not lIot followed by hy such lIuch atrocities atrocitIes ties lIe although tho the followers of ot the tue Ara ra blan hiatt prophet t have a 11 reputation for tor be being boo belog log ing ready rell with tho tim sword l |
