King Leopold Attacked.
At the Peace Congress held at Boston in October, 1904, to attend which was as much the reason of the visit to these shores of the Secretary of the Congo Reform Association as the presentation of a memorial to President Roosevelt, he recited his usual tirade against the Congo Government and the person of King Leopold with somewhat more than his customary unction; but his contentions were utterly demolished by the superior information and saner reasoning of his fellow-countryman, Mr. George Head, and by a letter which was read from Cardinal Gibbons (vide Chap. xxxiv), warmly defending the aims and achievements of the Belgians in Central Africa.
The net result of the Peace Conference to the Congophobes is to expose and appreciably weaken their conspiracy.
Conspiracy Fails.
There remains in our country a small section of the press obedient to the will of anti-Congolese campaigners and their merchant support, and the eloquent sophistries of Messrs. Morrison and Barbour. But these forces are surely inadequate to cause the Government of the United States to forget all of our political traditions, and to so abate our natural shrewdness, as to become a catspaw for an avaricious foreign commercial clique.
FOOTNOTES:
[46] The scene of the Rev. Mr. W. M. Morrison’s mission.
CHAPTER XXXII
TESTIMONY OF TRAVELLERS AND THINKERS
SIR HENRY M. STANLEY
Knowledge and Truth.