Excerpt from Pebbles From an African Beach
On the trip from which I have recently re t, urned I visited a portion of Africa where ground peas or peanuts are the staple product of the people. Monkeys, baboons and other animals destroy these crops, though the natives must grow them to get their hut tax for the’ government, and will be jailed if they do not pay. Yet they are not allowed any kind of firearms to protect their crop. They must build bonfires, beat boomerangs and watch the grow ing crop by day and by night to save any part of it. It was here I saw a carload of guns, taken from the natives, broken and sent by boat a mile out to sea and dropped into the ocean. But none of these cruel precautions will save Africa’s traducers from the wrath of God and the judg ment of sane thinking men in the years to come. With Africans fighting in the trenches with the allies and an equal number in arms in various portions of Africa under the governments who have taken over the continent, it can never be hoped to again make the African a docile creature, to be dumb driven like a brute, which his oppressors have been 100 years or more in the making. In all missionary liter ature written, good men tell us, Africans are awakening and once they are awake they must be dealt with as men and not as children.
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