“IT IS I”
“Leopold II is the absolute
Master of the whole of the in-
ternal and external activity of
the Independent State of the
Congo. The organization of
justice, the army, the industrial
and commercial regimes are established freely by himself.
He would say, and with greater accuracy than did Louis XIV.,
‘The State, it is I.’” _Prof. F. Cattier, Brussels University._
“Let us repeat after so many others what has become
a platitude, the success of the African work is the work of
a sole directing will, without being hampered by the hesita-
tion of timorous politicians, carried out under his sole respon-
sibility,—intelligent, thought-
ful, conscious of the perils
and the advantages, dis-
counting with an admirable
prescience the great results of
a near future.” _M. Alfred Pos-
kine in “Bilans Congolais.”_
[Illustration:
“A memorial for the perpetuation of my name.”—_Page 27._
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KING LEOPOLD’S SOLILOQUY
A DEFENSE OF HIS CONGO RULE
BY
MARK TWAIN