Die Fabriksparkasse

Die Arbeiterfrage in der Südrussischen Landwirtschaft

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Identifikator:: 1005178828

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-18208

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Altenrath, Johannes http://d-nb.info/gnd/1023399458

Title:: Die Fabriksparkasse

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: Carl Heymanns Verlag

Year of publication:: 1914

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 96 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2017

Collection:: Economics Books

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ON SLAVE TRADE (EAST COAST OF AFRICA). 39 ^vork done in these latitudes much better than We could do it ourselves. 484. it might materially assist us. with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if we could show a Certain saving on the per contra side of the ac count. Have you anything to say of the depot ^or liberated slaves at Aden ?—I would take that ^epot as an instance ; the slaves were necessarily I'cleased there, for they could not be sent back, %d could not be sent on to Bombay, and there Was nothing for it but to release them there ; of Course in a place like that there is very limited power of absorption for such labour as those slaves could furnish, and such a want was 'Very quickly filled up. There remained then an overplus of a particular kind of labour at Aden. Why ? because there were no steamers in which they could be sent to such a depot as it ^as been proposed to establish at Zanzibar, where ^bere would have been an unlimited power of absorption, and you could not trust them to go anywhere else ; they would have been made slaves iniinediately, if you had sent them to one of the neighbouring ports of the Red Sea. 485. You have recommended, I think, that the Colony of the liberated slaves at Zanzibar should be under the flag of the Sultan of Zanzibar ?- - Yes, for this reason ; that in the first place, if it Was done in good faith it would greatly disarm ^be Sultan of Zanzibar’s objections to anything cf the kind, if we proved to him, as we have proved before to his predecessors, that we did not Want to seize his kingdom, and oust him ; we ®bould then carry him with us, instead of having him against us. It would get rid of all the jea lousies which would certainly be created among other European powers by our establishing a Colony of our own there, because they never Would believe that it was done merely for the purpose of putting a stop to slavery, and we ^bould have sullenness and intrigues, and pro bably a good deal of underhanded attempts to Ondo what we were doing there ; whereas, if we i^crely had it on the same footing as our mis sionary establishments, and as the missionary establishments of the French are on there, you ßct rid at once of all local, as well as all European, jealousies. 486. It was mentioned to the Committee that ^be Sultan of Zanzibar was not able to enforce ^be decrees which he had issued ; would he be ^ble to protect this colony, do you think, if it ^^as under his flag?—He would be backed by cor own power. He would know that the con- ^ni’s flag, and the naval force at our command. Were there to protect our subjects and his autho- ^^ty ; the two would be bound up together. The ^crthern Arabs would set him at defiance, pos- ^^ly, of whom he would certainly be very much ^Aaid ; but they would think twice before they Meddled with an English establishment which ^^s supported, not only by the Sultan of Zanzi- but any insult to which would certainly be Avenged by our own force in those seas. 487. Sir J. I gathered from you that your impression was that if the blockade on the Coast of Africa were maintained as strongly that on the West Coast of Africa was main- ^iiied in former years, by that means you would ^n^cipate a speedy stoppage of the slave trade ? Yes. 488. Have you considered that the successful ^rmination of the slave trade on the West Coast Africa is considered by many to have been more due to the closing of the places at which Sir slaves could be received, than even to the c vigorous prosecution of the blockade cn the coast itself ; I allude to the fact that when the Bra zilian Government carried out most loyally their ^ treaties, and when the places at which slaves could be received were limited to the coast of Cuba, the operations of the navy became suc cessful rather by a rigid blockade of the coast of Cuba, than by watching with strict vigour, and large numbers of ships, the various ports from which slaves could be shipped ?—Certainly ; I meant to include in the operations of the squadron the whole of the Persian Gulf also, and I think I mentioned in one of my answers that it was quite necessary that those ports should be watched carefully, by an agency on shore, in the shape of an efficient consular agency maintained in corre spondence with our political agent and consul at Muscat, and also by an efficient squadron at sea. 489. Are the places at which the foreign slave trade from the East Coast of Africa is at present actively carried on limited to such points as could be conveniently watched ; or rather, is it not a very great extent of coast, so that if you stopned the trade, and entirely stopped it at one place, it would spring up at another, and make it very difficult to complete the arrangement without treaties with Persia and other places on the P ersian Gulf ?—Y es, certainly. Y ou cannot limit your operations to Zanzibar and Muscat; you must extend your operations to the independent tribes with whom you have already treaties, which, if they were properly enforced, would do all that you required; and I think the matter should be pressed on the Persian Government. I see the minister at Teheran objected to take any action with respect to the Persian Govern ment, on the ground that we might lose the footing that we already have. I have no doubt he knows the bearings of the case much better than I do ; otherwise I should have been very much disposed to doubt that. I believe it is one of those points in which you can succeed by persistent and perpetual pressing on a court, without hectoring or bullying; if you do not convert them by reason, they come to regard it as a concession to a very importunate person, whom it is not desirable to thwart, or refuse a small concession to. I think that if pressure had been applied to the Government of Persia in that way, without presuming to dictate to them, that we should have carried our point, as we have done elsewhere. 490. The operation that is contemplated (I speak navally) is a blockade of some 4,000 miles of coast ; 2,000 miles of Africa, and 2,000 miles of Asia ?—Probably it might amount to that. 491. That would require a squadron of 30 or 40 ships, instead of from three to seven ships, would it not?—Yon would take into account that it is only during certain seasons, and if you have good information of what is going on at the ports along the coast you may very much limit the number of ships employed. I may mention that very recently, one of the principal persons who was intended to give information to our agent in the Persian Gulf on this subject, and on whose information he relied, was very broadly accused of being a very great slave importer himself; our agent was unable for want of means to employ anyone else, but if he had had a trust worthy person in the shape of a consular agent E 4 on B. Frei e, LC.S.I., K.C.B. 7 July 1871.

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