Word: congo
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...result of a talk by the Rev. Joseph Clark That Astounded and shocked an audience in the Living Room of the Union last evening, a pettion against the fearful atrocities that are now being perpetrated against the natives in the Upper Congo region of Africa has been placed in the Union office. To anyone who did not hear Mr. Clark's bloodcurding narrative no wards depict the cuetly and the inhuman tortures by which these wretched beings are compelled to slave for King Leopold of Belglum, which would render practical unattainable the cause to which Mr. Clark is devoting...
...Joseph Clark, for many years a missionary in Congo, gave a very interesting lecture in the Union last evening on the "Congo Reform Movement." The lecture was illustrated by the stereopticon, and the slides showing the dismembered victims of King Leopold's cruelty bore out the lecturer's testimony of the horrible atrocities committed...
...lecture began by making a distinction between the Upper and Lower Congo. The outrages are confined to the Upper Congo alone, which explains the many false reports by missionaries and others who have penetrated only the Lower Congo to the effect that they do not exist. Mr. Clark showed that the contention of Leopold that the exactions of tribute on the natives is for public improvements, is absurd. His sole aim is to drive the natives to their limit in gathering India rubber for his consumption, and the instances of cruelty on the part of soldiers to gain this...
...Joseph Clark, a missionary in Congo for many years, will give a lecture on the "Congo Reform Movement" in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock. The lecture will be open only to members of the Union...
...Clark has been intimately connected with the Congo movement for twenty-seven years. He was a missionary there under the direction of the Livingstone Inland Mission and later of the American Baptist Missionary Union, and was one of the principal witnesses before King Leopold's Commission of Inquiry. On this occasion he testified regarding the horrible atrocities perpetrated by the Belgian government to wring money from the natives...