Emery County Progress | 1905-11-11 | Page 3 | Great Progress Made in Congo Free State

RIAT PROGRESS P MADE I 1 IN CONGO FREE RH STATE slave trade has disappeared villages sprung up ra inroads pu it and country is prosperous brussels the commission appoint ed by king leopold to investigate the conditions in the congo independent state and the charges made against the administration of the congo haa has reported one paragraph of the re port says our voyage to the congo produced an 11 impression of admiration and won der security reigns today in a country which twenty five years bears agi was plunged in barbarity alun plundered dered by arab tribes and strewn with mar bets for human flesh the slave trade has now disappeared cannibalism seeks hiding and human sacrifice has become rare villages have sprung up railroads have been constructed to the head of the equatorial forests steamers navigate the rivers the pos tal system and telegraph are in oper atlon hospitals have been established and government administration pro ceede uninterrupted in that vast country the report points out that the mutt lation of their bodies Is an ancient cus torn tom of the natives and that all the cases of mutilation presented were at to natives the commis sion therefore concluded that there was no testimony showing that the whites had been gu ity of mutilations