A WILLING SLAVE

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 264, 3 August 1929, Page 26

A WILLING SLAVE

In Meknes, which was old Mequinez when a Sultan of Morocco had his palace there, a slave girl still hugs her chains.

She was bought and sold, and when the French native court brought buyer and seller to justice for having broken the law which forbids slavery it was the slave girl who cried loudest against the decree. With tears and cries, she declared that she did not want her liberty. Liberty meant to her no more than hard living aud hard work. She much preferred to be a slave, sure of board and-lodging. It is the willing slaves, the contented slum-dwellers, who make the reformer’s task so hard. The French have given to Morocco fine roads and motor omnibuses, even an. aeroplane post. They have built modern hygienic towns by the side of the old insanitary ones. They have replaced robbery and bribery in high places by just laws. They have given everybody freedom—but there are still Moroccans who do not want it.