Eureka Reporter | 1905-05-26 | Page 7 | The Needs of Africa

THE NEEDS OF appeals to the people of all nations for rights it Is but very little that we ak I 1 the right to work on our own soil among our own people ruled by some at any rate of our own rulers and to be permitted to eat and drink what we think good for us instead ol 01 having deadly poison poured down our throats says the century even it for eign powers should for a time be ali ancial losers they cannot eventually be anything but gainers aided by a country almost unlimited in its capabilities bili ties and the willing grateful ice of 20 of people rescued from the moral as well as physical death now staring them in the face they will not have the obstacles pro dented to them in their own country all will be with them in this crusade leaders and people alike are stretch ing out their hands tor aid we appeal not to england not to france not to germany not to other empires and states but to the con sciences of the individual men torm ehg such nations we appeal not for a gift or favor but for our right even as the americans appealed for their rights and obtained them by heroic measures so do we claim the right tor freedom to worship god and to wor ship him by sobriety industry good will and all the christian graces