Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1888 — To Take Away the Savages' Firearms New York Sun. [ARTICLE]

To Take Away the Savages' Firearms New York Sun.

Many hundreds of natives chiefs in As learning the use of firearms and the power these weapons give them, are to be deprived, by the joint efforts of several governments, of further supplies of ammunition and guns. This step is deemed necessary for two reasons. In the first place the greed for firearms is the great incentive that induces the chiefs to make war on their neighbors for the purpose of supplying slaves to the Arabs in exchange for guns and powder. The prohibition of the firearms trade will be of important service in destroying the slive traffic. In the second place thealarming multiplication of firearms in inner Africa threatens every white interest developing there. Guns and ammunition must be kept out of the hands of the uncivilized hordes if white men we ever to dominate the country. r