Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1890 — VALUE OF STANLEY’S DISCOVERIES. [ARTICLE]

VALUE OF STANLEY’S DISCOVERIES.

Stanley is on the home stretch, and on April 10th arrived safely in Brindisi, where he was officially welcomed by the Italians and the British viceconsul. From Brindisi he went on to Cannes, and thnee to Brussels. Stanley positively declares that had he not rescued him Emlm would now have been a common slave in Khartoum, and that the Equatorial Province has been fully conquered and taken possession of by Mahdists. Stanley also says that the object of Germany in employing Emin is to annex territory, that the Soudan can be .conquered and annexed by any nation which will spend the money and send the men required,

He continued: “I told Sir Rutherford Alcock, in 1878, that inside of twenty years there would not be a square mile of Africa unexplored. I said that in the same period of time the Continent would be pierced in all directions by railways, if there was money furnished. England has taken millions of square miles out of Africa; France has taken a million also, and so has Germany. Good. Who would have dreamed, in 1878, when I was fighting my way, mile by mile, down the Upper Congo, that to-day there would be thirteen steamers on its waters? If the Germans build their railways from Bagamoyo they will, control the lake region, and if they get the lake region they will destroy the whole value of British possessions on the cost. After a while they would want the coast as well. If the Germans get Albert and Victoria lakes they will be masters of the Nile so far as Africa is concerned. As I, said before, when England is ready to do her work as she ought to the North African question will be solved, but no stingy or wavering method will succeed. There must be a distinct object in view and a definite intention to accomplish it.”

Stanley became enthusiastic when asked what there would be to gain by such an expenditure of money and men in Africa. “What is there to gain? There is land to gain—land that will grow anything under the sun. Why, this soil you see here in Southern Italy”—and Stanley pointed to the green slopes rising from the harbor—- ■ would not be looked at. In Africa we should call it sterile. Then there are millions of strong men to gainmen who can be converted into wealth by proper management. Every laborer who enters the United States is valued at SI,OO0 —as an addition to the national wealth. Africa teems, with black men, and they can easily be controlled. As this population becomes civilized it must be clothed and housed. Think of what a great market it will be for a nation!”

It is said that King Leopold wants Stanley to go back to the Congo State, and that England wants him to goi back to East Africa. Certain it is»that the struggle for possession will come in Africa between England and Germany. Stanley says that be has analyzed the whole situation in his new book, and has not sacrificed truth to politeness.