CHAPTER VIII. 
Ai^rica a Country Without Homk Government—Liberian 
Republic—American Consulates—Morocco—Algiers-— 
Tunis—Egypt—Cairo—Cape Town—Cape oe Good Hope— 
Kimberley—Home Lite in Africa—Naming the Baby— 
Ambitious Boyhood—Immature Child Wives. 
A ERICA is a country of more than 11,000,000 square miles in 
^ area and nearly 200,000,000 inhabitants, without any govern¬ 
ment except what foreign countries have established there. Prac¬ 
tically there is no monetary system in that country. The money 
used is that of the European nations having dependencies there. 
They control all the banks. 
Liberia is a republic, established through American influence. 
The Capital is Monrovia. About 12,000 negroes born in the United 
States now live in Liberia. The United States government has 
recently established a commission to look into the conditions in 
Liberia, with a view to giving our government authentic informa¬ 
tion concerning the country. Whether this has in view the encour¬ 
agement of negro emmigration from the United States is not as 
yet definitely known. 
A DIFFICULT PROBLEM. 
There has been much speculation in this regard, however, 
although it is admitted to be a most difficult problem to handle. 
There are political theorists in the United States who hold to the 
idea that the ''negro problem’’ can be solved by colonizing them in 
some country like Liberia. 
Liberia is the only country in Africa having Consular repre¬ 
sentatives in the United States. In this case there are only two 
Consular Agents. It will be seen then that here are 200,000,000 
people without diplomatic representation, except that of the British, 
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