AN IMPEACHMENT OF STANLEY.

Evening Post, Volume XL, Issue 63, 13 September 1890, Page 2 (Supplement)

AN IMPEACHMENT OF STANLEY.

Mr. John Laidler, a Newcastle workman,, on returning a ticket which had been sent to him to attend the presentation of the freedom of Newcastle to Mr. Stanley, gives the following reasons for so doing : — Mr. Stanley has proved by his own writings and speeches that he wishes to be the annexor and subjector of native African races. His explorations have resembled more tbe marches of a brigand chief than the peaceful matches of his predecessors, and have carried with them slavery, misery, degiadation, and death. Jf we look to the Emm Pasha expedition we find Mr. Stanley in alliauce with the slave trader Tippo Tib and the Manyenes. He writes :—": — " The abundance found by us will never be found again, for the Arabs have followed my track by hundreds, and destroyed villages and plantations, and what the Arabu spared the elephant herds completed." Mr. Stanley has first broken the spirit of the natives with the deadly tire of his breechloaders, and they have fallen an easy prey to the Arabs, who have followed closely on their heels. Finally if his ultimate aim is successful, what do we see but an extension of shoddy cooimei'cialism, including thu improvement ot the savages off the face of "the earth, the Martini- Henry, Gatling guns, the whisky bottle, and the worst diseases that our civilisation breeds.