ABORIGINES PROTECTION SOCIETY

[s. 20] : The tendency of colonists from the so-called civilized countries to disregard the rights of natives of territory which they desire to occupy has had many painful illustrations in Australia, the Pacific islands, and various parts of Africa, not to mention other better known regions. Feelings of revulsion from such injustice and of sympathy for its victims caused the formation of this. The Society aims steadily to Society in 1837. champion the rights of tribes, especially in Africa, which are oppre ed by the thoughtle ne ,, carele ne , or greed of white settlers. It seeks to prevent settlers from crowding natives off from lands actually in occupancy, and to secure just legislation regulating the distribution of land to white settlers, limiting or forbidding the sale of liquor to natives, and otherwise placing legal barriers in the way of injury to those who through, ignorance or weakne cannot defend their own interests. The methods so far used by the Society have been by appeal to public sentiment through, the pre , and by direct application to the Government. This Society is not in any sense a mi ionary organization. Neverthele its object is one which coincides with the purpose and wish of all mi ionaries, which fosters the spread of civilization among backward races and which attracts, them toward the adoption of that Christian principle of good will to all on which the existence of the Society is based. Headquarters, Broadway Chambers, Westminster, London, S. W., England. 20