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inexhaustible patience of the teacher is not quite worn out, 
the modest financial resources at his command certainly are. 
Forced labour in Congo land means the bloodiest sort of 
slavery. Under its régime the native population has 
decreased. Forced labour in Portuguese East Africa is 
worked on a system but little in advance of that obtaining 
three hundred years ago. Progress for the native, there, is 
quite impossible. No account whatever is taken of him. 
He exists for the benefit of the white colonist only. But 
the declared aim and policy of the English and German 
governments is manifestly different. True, they are no 
mere philanthropists. The country they have acquired 
must pay its way, or ruin awaits both white and black, but 
theoretically both have realized that Africa can only be 
prosperous as the White and Black succeed, together. 
The Germans seem to have sat down and thought out the 
problem confronting them. They act ona plan; they govern 
onasystem. Englishmen are apt to criticize German methods 
as being hampered by too much system, too much red tape. 
This may be so, but if there is too much system in German 
territory, there is surely too little across the border. The 
fertile source of evil and inefficiency there, has been the 
evident lack of one settled policy. Governors, laws, regu- 
lations, policies —all change continually. Native tribes 
are moved from one location to another. Farmers are 
invited to come and till a new land of promise. But the 
tribes are uncertain of the tenure of their grazing lands, 
and the maddened farmer cannot get a title to his farm. 
One year sees one policy declared, the next sees this 
overthrown, and something new promised. Is the country 
to be a game reserve? Is it to be a native reserve? Is it 
to be an East Indian reserve? Are the Boers to have it, 
or is it reserved for Englishmen? No land can present a 
longer list of problems to the statesman or the missionary, 
and it is hard to believe that as yet there has been formulated 
