CONGO REFORM APPEAL.

Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 14612, 30 August 1913, Page 7

CONGO REFORM APPEAL.

©EILiGIA^ jPKASCTICEB IN

AFRICAI.

In public opinion, Mr E D. Morel, secretary a7id moving spirit of tho ->Congo Reform Alssoc-fatiop ; which struck so- long at 'Belgian malpractices in Africa, tells how tho battle was won, and how the heair of the British, people, when appealed to ii a cause like this, is sound. He: writes It often used to 'be aa-iJ to me: — 'Depend upon it, you caa only make headway in this country -viici a- public cause is associated with one cr oilier of the political parties in the State. Your cause was the misfortune of not. beingl identified -.wilt one side or the other, and the UritMi public, will, therefore, never b>oome really interested-' Blub, in this matter, at any rate, the event has proved that the exact contrary is the r:\s?It is because the C'onjyo Reform As soeiation appealed to a. pla/;.r.trm 3;vorced from differences of politics and creeds and class, that its ffort, lias been successful, and that its work will leave endurfri<r traces upon cue of the greatest world problems whkh. the future 'has in store for us, viz., the relations of Europe with Africa.