Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-11-30

as Imperial commissioner to conduct
further negotiations with King Loben-
gula.
The claims Of those who Justify the
advance of the company's troops have
been summed up In Rider Haggard's
recent letter to the London Times.
THE record of the Matabele," he said,
"is one of the untiring massacre Of
i~noffensive human beings. l have seen
districts in the Transyaal covered with
the remains of Basuto Eraals. The in
habitants Of these kraals were butch
cred by the Matabele when they fled
northward under the leadership Of Mo
sihkatZe from the wrath of Chaka,
and as they began so they have gone
on.
1T is not too much to say that Ii
eyer innocent blood cried to heaven
for vengeance it cries against Loben-
gula, who, without a spark Of his gen.
JUS and rcdeeming greatness, has for
years, SO far as his opportunities would
allow, played the part of Chaka, the
first Zulu king. The Chartered COM
pany Is taken to task because 1t has
resented the butchery Of Mashonas un-
der its protection and within it's WI
territory; il has been told that IL will
be time enough for it to fight when
white people are the victims.
Probably those who sit at home in
safety do not understand how strange,
not to say outrageous, such talk must
sound in the ears of our fellow-coun-
trymen whose lives are at stake, to-
gether with the lives Of their wives
and children. Certainly il a Matabele
iinpi could miraculously appear in DIR
midst with blood in their eyes," threat
cning to massacre every living thing
down to the fowls in the garden, such
amiable theorists would speak and write
very differently. In South Africa men
are iii earnest about this question, and
it may be well to recognize he fact,
for the country Is worth retaining from
an imperial point OF view. The treat
ment of the Transvaal loyalists did
much to loosen our hold on it and ON
the respect and affection Of its English
inhabitants. Should 1t be repeated in
any sense or form In the case of the.
Moshonaland settlers we may one day
find the empire lacking the cape and
he vast territories behind it, which
are destined, IL properly managed, to
become the most valuable of our pos
sessions. We threw away the Trans
yaal, to-day perhaps the richest country
in the world; let us try to keep Bechu-
ana and M~ashonaland, even II it does
cost us some small outlay in men,
money aud sympathy"
But King Lobensula takes another
view of his rights. In reply 70 a pro-
test against a Matabele raid in Mashon-
aland the king wrote this reply, which
Sir Henry Loeb telegraphed to the
marquis of Ripon on Aug. Il:
1 shall return no cattle or compen-
safe anybody for either cattle captured
by my impi or damage done to proper
ty until such time that Rhodes returns
to me all the captives, their wives and
children. cattle, goats and sheep which
were given protection to by the Vic
toria people; and had | known at the
time when | despatched my impi in the
direction Of Victoria what | know o
l would have ordered them to capture
and loot all they could lay their hands
on belonging to the whites, to compen-
safe myself for the people and their
property which were withheld from
me.
When 1t was suggested to LObengula
that he should compensate the Mash
onas, whom he had raided, he sent the