Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1892 — A BARBARIC DESPOT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A BARBARIC DESPOT.

Mulejr HiMaii, tlio Tyrant Hultun of Morocco. The Sultan of Morocco, Muloy Hassan, rises Into prominence at present, owing to the Frcnch-lSnglish dispute in that country. There has never been a greater despot In Africa during 1,000 years. Ills subjects are never sure of their lives. They are browbeaten, bastinadoed and starved at his will. The number of human heads he may literally cut off in the course of every twenty-four hourp is theoretically unlimited, and in practice he has availed himself of the imperial privilege of decapitation to such an extent that the atrocities of the lioman Emperor Com mod us, and of the Russian Czar, Ivan the Terrible, sink Into mildness in comparison. He hates Europeans and European civilization. In appearance he Is tall, In com-

plexion he Is very dark, black blood showing itself very plainly in his thick lips, though this does not prevent his being an exceedingly handBome man. His face is thin and looks worn. He wears a black beard and mustaohe, and dresses entirely in white. His gardens are full of nightingales, his harem of the most beautiful slaves, and his halls of minstrels who chant to him the glory of himself and his ancestors, _for he is thir-ty-fifth in descent from All, uncle and son-in-law of the Prophet. It is strange that within hailing distance of Europe such a monster should hold court. But it is unfor-tunately-the interest of the great European powers to retain him on his throne.

SULTAN MULEY HASSAN.