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Marlborough Express, Volume XXVI, Issue 101, 3 May 1890, Page 4

BURNS' STRICTURES ON STANLEY. 1

It will be recollected that a cablegram Informed us that John Burns, termed Stanley a " bucoaneer." The London Star's report of the London County Counoil meeting, at which he said tbiß, is to hand; and we extraot therefrom the following : — " Then came the sensation. Barns rose, and at the height of his great voice uttered a loud protest against _ the idea. In the first place, the Council had no power to spend money for such a purpose and even if it had, Mr Williams was vastly mistaken if he thought the people of London were so very fond of the record of a man . who had spent his time m devastating and ravaging whole districts m an unknown country. No doubt Stanley deserved the thanks of certain commercial sections whose interests he had pressed, forward.. His treatment of. the Natives amounted to brutality. " I have," "said the speaker, " been amongst these Natives myself for' over a twelvemonth, and never even had' to strihe one of them." But this man, who made no scruple of forsaking his sick followers m the wilda when he found them an encumbrance, who had shot and court-martialledall around, was to be feted, and that, too, on the notion of a minister , of Christ I To such men as Livingstone,; Speke, and Cameron honor was due ; but it was a . long jump down from them to Stanley, who was no. pioneer of civilisation, but only the advance guard of a shoddy commercialism panting for fresh markets, anxious for profits, willing to exploit the Natives and to shoot them down m accomplishing that exploitation if needed. This buccaneer of the Congo was unworthy of their honor. All this time the Council, which at first seemed amaze 3, was roaring out dissent round Burns, who }> never heeding that, went on stentoriously m tones louder than all dissent, stopping neither for protestations, points of order, nor the general, wail of "Pray don|tlet him go on, Mr Chairman,". that:rose all round. Then Mr Lawson rose and hoped that the public would not think that because they rejected Mr -•.William' B nfation that they therefore agreed with the last speaker. Mr Stanley's words spoke for him. r-r (Here, here,— with emphasis tor John). He wished to move . . that- the Council express regret for. the utterance of Burns' views. But here it seemed that Burns waa not alone, for there arose a considerable counter ory, of "No, no,"; and Mr Lawson hurriedly dropped his regretful proposal. After which Mr Williams hastened to withdraw his suggestion, to which the Council gladly assented, as getting lid of an unfortunate incident.

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