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Show ! MORGAN ARRAIGNS LEOPOLD. " Charges Cruelty to Peoplo of Congo Free State. Washington. Senator Morgan ro-i ro-i ported favorably from tho commltteo ot foreign relations on Fridny his rcsolu-1 rcsolu-1 tlon calling on tho president for Infor mation ns to any concessions Americans Ameri-cans may have rccolvcd from King Leopold for tho gathering of India rubber In tho Congo Freo state. The Morgan statement recites how capitalists of tho civilized nations are I pushing Into tho rubber forests "with I' ' all manner of monopolistic arrango- i- mcnts for subjecting this great pro- j j duct tho gift of nature to their 1 craving for wealth." P Ho arraigns King Leopold "for the j manner in which ho has exploited tho Congo lands In accumulating wealth tc fa himself by Imposing tasks of porsonal S labor to tho oxtromo of cruelty upon 83 tho natlvo population." i Mr. Morgan charges that conces- 1 slonnlres havo boon empoworod by f, fl King Leopold to "cxerclso tho same f if distressing nuthorlty over tho people i '' over which they have proccoded to j i enforce without restraint and without tho responsibilities to public opinion I which should chock their nvarlco and S ' greod In dcalng wth nn Ignorant and ! subjugated people." |