Missionary, Visitor, The (1907) . plied, I cannot go Leopold has been saying the mis-sionaries are telling untruths, but themissionaries have not exaggerated. Isaid, I want something in black andwhite, and he said, Write what youlike. So I wrote out this statement: Hundreds of men, women and childrenhave been done to death for rubber, andI can prove it by a multitude of wit-nesses. They accepted that statementas true, but you have got to multiply thata hundred thousand times before youbegin to understand what it means. Oneof the most tragic things that happenedbefore that Commission of
Missionary, Visitor, The (1907) . plied, I cannot go Leopold has been saying the mis-sionaries are telling untruths, but themissionaries have not exaggerated. Isaid, I want something in black andwhite, and he said, Write what youlike. So I wrote out this statement: Hundreds of men, women and childrenhave been done to death for rubber, andI can prove it by a multitude of wit-nesses. They accepted that statementas true, but you have got to multiply thata hundred thousand times before youbegin to understand what it means. Oneof the most tragic things that happenedbefore that Commission of Enquiry waswhen the old chiefs came forward withtheir bundles of bamboo sticks, eachpiece of bamboo representing a persondone to death for rubber in their thought I should like to get hold ofsome of these to show the Christiansof this country, and I brought home smallest one represents fifty-fourmen and women in one village done todeath, and the largest one hundred andeighty-five men and women and eighty- 176. Many hundreds have been killed from this station. It was one of the chief rubberfactories and more rubber was collected here than from any other station. eight little children. If this thing werethe result of warfare it might be anothermatter, but these are all deliberate, cold-blooded murders, and a solemn respon-sibility rests on every one of us to knowno rest until the whole system responsi-ble for it has been swept off the face ofthe earth. It has recently been stated that it is no exaggeration to declare that dur-ing the last twelve years King Leopoldssystem has done to death directly andindirectly at least three millions of peo-ple. Think of it! Three millions of peo-ple done to death by uncontrolleddespotism and in the interests of privateplunder, and yet civilization stands andlooks on.—Illustrated Missionary News.
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