People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1896 — For African Partition. [ARTICLE]

For African Partition.

During his first term as president of the United States Cleveland paid the bond holders a clean bonus of $68,000,000 for the privilege paying of some bonds that were not yet due because of the refunding scheme. It was a clean gift of $68,000,000. During his present term he is trying to beat the record by selling bonds to the same chaps for quite as many millions less than what they are worth.

The London People (newspaper) gives the imports of the Kingdom for February at £35, - 476.456, and the exports at £l9683.456, and thinks this is an excellent showing. At that rate the balance of trade against England is a little more than $337,168,000. How does England meet such an enormous drain on her resources? Who pays England's bills? Evidently, the rest of the world is at a disadvantage in their dealings with that country, and our own country pays the major portion of England's adverse balance. The worst feature in the case is, that the American people vote to continue pa\ ing it by adhering to her financial system.

Senator Allen's committee has reported favorably on his resolution to investigate the Alabama election frauds. It finds from the evidence that Kolb was elected both times he run. That Thomas G. Jones was counted into the gubernatorial seat by “wholesale falsification of returns by dishonest election officials in pursuance of a general conspiracy deliberately organized long before the election.” A Georgia exchange says: The report shows that while 50,000 votes were counted from fifteen counties, only 16,000 were really cast, and that instead of Oates being elected in the last race by 27,587 majority that Kolb was really elected by about 7,000 majority, and a majority of the candidates for the legislature on Kolb’s ticket were really elected, but were counted ©ut by fraudulent returns.

“Murder will out,” and the gigantic frauds which were used to seat Oates of Alabama and Atkinson of Georgia will yet react upon the perpetrators. The democrats have always denied the republican charges of fraudulent elections in the south, and yet we have listened spell bound many a time to detailed accounts by the actors themselves of how they counted out the republicans at various elections in the past. We have never aided or abetted fraud in any election by any party, and hope in the near future to see all honest men regardless of party, demand and compel a free ballot and a fair count. No honest man can oppose such a demand unless he first sacrifice his honesty.

Britain is moving a great army up the Nile into equatorial A frica to conquor the free people of the Soudan. It .is said that the Mahdi can muster a well armed body of 300,000 soldiers, who, under the inspiration of religious fanatacism, will tight with a desperation unknown to any other race. The war will be a costly one but the result is easily foretold; the commercial interests of England as well as of all Europe, will be benefltted by the conquest of the Soudanese and the appropriation of their rich country, and consequently the arms of England must succeed. It will be a case of might triumphing over right, for even the great numbers of the Arab host cannot in the end win against the modern military of England, and especially when Italy, Germany and Austria are practically her allies. The war will be stubbornly contested and may require several years to conclude, but it marks the beginning of a new epoch in the history of the dark continent. The next twentyfive years will see such a rush of fortune hunters and home seekers to that rich and undeveloped land as the world has sever seen before in the settle-

ment of any new country. It is believed to be naturally the most bountifully endowed with natures vast resources of all the divisions of the earth, capable of sustaining a very numerous population in the opulence of all the necessities, comforts and pleasures of life. Throughout this vast region the people now live with all theiy simple wants supplied; the masses Of the people have access to all the natural elements and easily supply their wants without paying tribute landlord or capitalist. True these people are not very far up in the scale of civilization, some even are savages, but they seem to know how to live without the methods of modern civilization, and they are happy. True also they have some institutions that are wrong, such as slavery in some places, but what is to take the place of the present condition and be their future state? Those primitive people know better than you can toll them; they know that nothing less that slavery for all their people await them if they fail to check the advance of the English; commercial slavery, the most dreadful bondage that the ingenuity of man can devise. They know that their free pastures will be fenced up and a foreign landlord will exact pay for the privilege of grazing their cattle upon them. They knew that the very soil where they grow their crops will be taken from them. But perhaps they do not yet know thut greater still will be the enslaving power of English capital, which will build railroads, and establish all the various improvements of civilization, which shall draw in tolls and taxes to the uttermost limit of the people to pay. Africa must be commercialized the great powers are whacking away at it on all sides, and now the master movement is directed at its center.