| Show Will ViII ill America Help England to Free the Congo Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Makes an Appeal to the Readers of This Paper to Stir Up The National Conscience in Behalf I of o King K ng Leopolds Victims I To the tb Editor of the tho th Deseret l f 1 New News NewT I are tro many of us nos In Brig Sog SogI T land whit cold the crime I which ll h has h been wrought In ht th Ih thI I ngo lands land by h ICing Kins Leopold 1 of Belgium and ant hU hi followers to 10 be beth b K KIh th Ih the a p 1111 tt t which has hl reel 1 been known n In human annals I am strongly of that opinion h hen have v e been bean great hl RII like that of the th Normans In England l or ur of the Ille thel l I In lit Ireland There have h c been ben mt ilCI of populations like tike that of nf the South Americans by the th Spaniards or ur of or subject nations by the Ti Tt T us as But never before II hk ha h there been such sucha a I nurture of ot hoI lot and wholesale I I massacre all 1 11 Anne t jm antler an 9 gals u of f iy and with the lowest im ulo lita Ih aa a a II It l Ii this tb sordid cause caUM and the unctuous ri y which make this crime In Its It horror Tho The i of the crime are of all I nations and there la is 1 no of error concerning the facts fact hen are or consuls like Ilk Casement C get gel Mitchell and lint Armstrong all wilt IIII In their official l cai city with every detail nf ot fa fad fact t and It 1111 date data There here are aru like Pierre Tierra and Fe Ye Il illI Cl both of whom have hate written books upon U the subject Titers There are missionaries of ut man many race niece Harris Weeks and Morri Morrison son aon Clarke laske Shepherd Shel henl American lI lather the tilt Jesuit J There la le I the tha III ac sec action tion ud of the th Italian government wilt who Mused I to allow all Italian off In rs to 10 bo be bee e ed 1 any longer hunger in such liang hallar tan i in dO work ork and their th Is I the th In report if f the III 1 the evi 61 eviden es t dene den d f before la which was ass suppressed Le Lr L raue nu e IT sa ai t too tuo dreadful for foi ti hn n Finally I nil II tile IH Is I the nn I ble bl evidence of or the th kodak Any An AmerIcan Amer American A mer merlean ican lean dURn who bo will glance alan at lark Mark Twains Twain King Kin Leopold Leopolds will see sae some samples f tf r that thai A per fr URal of aJI all these there th sources of lion will show ho that there them th la fa not a grotesque ob ure or torture which ped human Ingenuity could Invent I m I which ha h has not 1101 been used ull ed against the 11 e harmless harmles and anti helpless u people Ople AS Jt This would to 10 my mind warrant our Intervention In any an case a Turkey has ha several Um times m been oln Interfered with It on the lite general moerai ground GNU of humanity Hut nu tsar there Is I In I Ia in instance stance stanc a My 1 f orV why Wit America merlc and amt m ahoy should hi not not MaHd Marid by b and anti wee ae 9 these then lh p i done to They TIle are nr In a tense sense 00 their wards ards America watt was the U to 0 Rive give he official recognition to 10 King enter enterprise prise in ISSi ISi HIM and so eo roar IM the thu of ot having actually put 11 t him into fate Int that position Jl IlIon which li he baa 00 since cities IW t dreadfully She Slie Sli luw Ise h been the vt and innocent cause cau of ot the ibo whole tragedy tetras mme t tion la is I duo dui on the other outer hand i land hand bar ha with t the uthe K iop in I sinned signed the treaty treat of ut 1186 1106 by which each and anti all of them heat l makes aka k it itself Itself self re K le for tb lb the condition of oC the native II II ve races The other have han IH so I far shown no to u live IP to I this pledge nut Hut the cues of or la is uneasy and she Is I slowly herself to 10 act t Will ka kabI be bI behind At this I moment n I two I wo Atm Amer American r ican Shepherd and that noble Morrison IunI IOn are ar about aboul to Lo Lc tried at 11 Jolna for telling the truth about the scoundrels In n t the e desk dot k sakes k a liner statue of liberty then than in New S York hiot Attempts will be tit made In a for the tho lh Congo I onao has h its It II paid apologists everywhere to t pretend pre lend that thaI Ragland want to oust Belgium from hor her colon and take It II herself Such Su h a are ar foil folly To run a colony honestly without enslaving the th natives Is I an expensive process pines Kor I or example Nigeria Irla the nearest l colony has h ha to be bI subsidised to the Ihl extent of a year taken take over the th Congo will wll considering Its It present n demoralised condition have ba a certain expense e n of ot 0 a year for 10 90 years yea Belgium has h not run ran the eel ol 01 olony OilY ony It II has hall simply sacked keel It forcing the he Inhabitants e without pay to skip ship everything of value vatu to 10 Antwerp No 0 decent 10 could Oo tie 00 this For many man years to come the u Congo will willbe II be tie a heavy expense e n and It will truly Ite be Itea II bea a philanthropic rail ouli upon the next owner 1 I trust It will not taU fall to I pang h lend land Attempts have hav ha va 2 n ft made mcle too for tor is I considerable ingenuity and un unlimited unlimited I limited money on lie I other side Ide to 10 pretend that It is I a question of eif Pent Irot missions Catholic Anyone Any Anyone 11 one OM who IN thinks this Ihl should i lead Iad ad the Ule book a Question c of he the th eloquent and holy Jesuit Jaunt Rather leather Ver He lie live Iet li esl In III the tho country nn anal l laa aa as ha he says My y It II was WAN the th sight of the UK Im lui measurable abl misery which hove drove 1110 him to write We l who are ar earnest over oer this mutter look kook eagerly to the to see eve some hone mt sign Rijn n of moral morIA I support or material loading It would be lie u grand sight to In see the tho tanner banner of humanity and nd civilisation carries carried forward foar l In such aunt sucha a auH cause by the two great I speaking nations Yours You I faithfully ARTHUR CONAN DOYL I 1111 I n He Kept lit 9 1909 10 |
