OCR Text |
Show INDIANS IN BONDAGE IN THE PERDVIAN JUNGLES Natives In Slavery are Flogged, Mutilated Muti-lated or Otherwise Tortured at Will of Inhuman Masters. Washington With the transmission to congress on Frlany by President Taft of a 8Hcial itate department report re-port compiled by American Consul Stewart J. Fuller at Iquitos, Peru, on the AncloSnxon exploitation of South American Indians In the Puttimayo district of Peru, and conclusions on the same subject by Fredorlco Alfonso Pexet. Peruvian minister to the lTul- GENERAL BERNARDO REYES. f-M-La.M.e' t 1 1 a A Ceneral Reyea was killed In the street fighting after being liberated j from prison by hla sympathizers. ted States, were made public by the stale department. i It Is shown In Consul Fuller's re- 1 port that the helpless people of tho i'utumayo district were victims of a I medieval system of barbarous ppres- ' slon wielded by the Peruvian-Amazon i (ompany, an F.ngllHh concern, which works the rubber fields in tho t'pper Amazon country. 1 It Is asserted that when the Indians failed: to bring In a toll of rubber auf- ( floient to aatisfy the overseers of the ' company, flogging, mutilation and I sometimes death followed. ' IM-Ut Is declared to have been Uie chain with which the Indiana were fettered. By being forced to buy more Imported goods than they ever could ' hope to pay for, they have been re- ' duced to what Consul Fuller found was 1 virtually slavery. |