Press Opinions on the "Curse of Central Africa."— contd. 



practical politics. We have not much reason to expect great 

 results from a Concert of Europe, and though it was easy for 

 the Berlin Conference to vote away the Congo country, it would 

 prove much harder to get it back again. But the reign of 

 slavery and horror revealed by Captain Burrows cannot be 

 accepted as a permanent shame to European civilisation. It 

 is perhaps idle to hope for actio from the present Ministry — a 

 Ministry whose interest in labour, black or white, is sufficiently 

 indicated by their attitude in regard to the Bethesda scandal — 

 but Captain Burrows's record cannot fail to effect reform through 

 some channel." — Dai'/j^ Ne-cus. 



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