| Show CONDITIONS I IN FREE STATE J P Morgan Lyman Abbot Abbott and Others Address Secy Root On Subject VANT ABUSES CORRECTED Sull Said to 10 Ask k foraI of York pee ce loter letter slammed uy by J PIerpont Dr Abbott IUd and other prominent citizens ot of New itI York WUI addressed to Seey Secy pC at Italo today loday his attention to In the tho Congo Iree Where hell II ft Is fa tin grant exists and urging him 01 op behalf or of time the m people to 10 timo Iho moral support or of the Iho Unit 01 UI States to correct tho the Congo are alleged to tobe be suffering from Time The Is as follows Ocr 1 mc year has passed time tho ro re report port ot of the chosen hy by the Ihl chief and virtual olner owner It if the to investigate In that tate state In Iii semite or of their desire to give 10 ni alt possible credit to thell the felt to report the tho of leJ ures antI practices or of these flagrant inhumanity melA tog Ing p PractIses arc the follow ot of labor ta tax tO so Ope op that malY natives 01 on It I tais fail have little It If nn amy freedom ot of land to such an that the natives arc practically prisoner within their oln own territory under of ef time tho ns as len sentries trIes ot of cruet cruel brutish blacks chosen from hoste hostile trIbes who murder pIllage and rape rapo time the people for tor whoso th the government Is avowedly established abuse or of the natIves by white representatives ot of time the officially rL og companies binding ot of little children to years or of labor at t uncertain wages hy by contracts they hey do not understand Ind and elen more serious ot of children supposedly time the Imme care ot of the In the ration ot of Ihl thu curte courts so that the tho nn na lve tives dread the name Pt pf Doma the Iho place where the tho judicial lyler system Is con een conI t I rl ed sending out ot of intuitive expo not for the purpose ot of peace mind order but for tor time Iho purpose ot of terrifying the natives Into Inlo payIng I n tax which ns as rell even the regard ni as In InhUma hUma I It Is to bo be remembered that UmBe lre are not charges the Congo gov ov but findings or of the tho commis sian which wan waD appoInted by the tho chIef executive ot of time tho to hIves and report on th the facts Acting upon the these so findings a second melon sJon also appointed by the kil king hM has measures ot of reform No io ps have havo been heen takemi to adopt them There Is 10 no that the tho Congo Is undertaking seriously to 10 remedy these Tim Tho powers which created the Congo have havo clearly It a right to cal call thul government t tte to te InasmUch as the tho United States gave wo Its Ih moral suppo support rt to the ot or thu tho Congo I It Is l Justified lt ml Is Its morl support to any un undertaking to 10 secure conditions tn tim the tho Congo that wil will tot not disgrace civilian Ion We wish to assure you yon that for tor any measure you may adopt adept In order to give the tho powers such moral support or of ortho tile tho United States you wil will havo our earnest all urgent approval The limo leter letter Is signed by time the Hev Abbot Abbott Henry Wilford L L Ge George Knox Charles I If Parkhurst John P I loters William llam St n Richards Anson 1 P Atterbury Percy B 8 Orant and WIlliam J 3 William H Dugles Douglas Charles A A Schieren Spencer Trask George Haven Everet Everett I Wheeler hobart nobert C Ogden J Pier Iler D Wills James Ti R ton Ion J 1 Cleveland Caly Cady Ild and W J |
