Heart of Darkness condemns the ways in which King Leopold's policy is executed, and how his economy works. He was pushing for all these resources, and ivory while getting cheap items in return. He would push the colonists to get as much ivory as possible, and reward them when they were profitable. Marlow states, "The word 'ivory' rang in the air, was whispered, was sighed. You would think they were praying to it." (Conrad 46) This was another reason the natives were being treated so poorly, King Leopold II enforced a system of commission for colonists who would find the largest quantities of ivory, and told them to obtain it by any means necessary. The colonists ran around destroying the Congo under the impression that they are helping