The record-union., 1896-01-08

son expedition entered Transvaal, BY
this conjunction it was hoped to bring
on a revolution that could be made sue
cessful Jameson is very popular in
South Africa. Shrewd, calculating, gal
liant, courageous, he has won the re-
spect of the English, and to a consid-
cradle extent of the Beers. He lived a
long tirle among them; made himself
useful to them. How far he was in
spired by the English Government in
his recent raid may never be known
but that he was backed by the South
Africa Company admits of no doubt,
and that his scheme was promoted by
England is believed. He was in close
communion with the foreign element in
Transvaal and received very consider
able assistance from it. He raised
body OF 700 men, who were finely
armed, and under pretense of going to
the assistance of the grumbling Uit-
landers, he sought to cross into the ter
ritory of the republic to acquire it-of
that there seems little doubt. He was
trapped by the Beers, whipped in a re-
markable cement in which the
dead were far out of proportion to the
wounded, and himself and $50 men
we're made prisoners.
The British Government has hastened
to disavow responsibility for Jameson
and his act, whereat a goodly portion of
the British public, believing their Gov
ernment in duty bound to stand by him,
enter a hot protest at this desertion of
the doctor, while Emperor William of
Germany, throughout friendly to the
Beers, between whom and his own peo-
pie the application of the saying that
blood is thicker than water may be
| made, extends his congratulations to
the President of the Transvaal Repub-
lie that he has been able to so signally
overcome his foes, and bidding him be
of good cheer and do the work over
again if occasion demands. This dis
patch, the real meaning of which we
have expressed, not the words, has
given deep offense in England, and
hence these tears.
The whole matter illustrates the ira
ditional policy of Overwhelmingly, to
get all it can, keep all it gets and to
strive for more. Boundary extension
and protectorates are features of this
policy in which England holds herself
! to be expert. That this should be SO is
not at all surprising, for England is ter
| ritorially insignificant outside of her
colonial possessions and her acquired
property. She became the first nation
of the world by acquisition of lands in
| all parts of the globe and the main
tenance of the most powerful navy and
merchant marine known to history. A
commercial nation above all others, she
has made trade follow the flag, and her
! flag she has f1oated in every sea and
! planted on every continent in every
| quarter and wherever language is
spoken among the civilized or the
! savage.
| That she should seek to extend her
| limits and her power, and to dominate
in South Africa, is not surprising. In
deed, had she not made the attempt
it would have been cause for surprise.
In short, the restless English are never
/ content except they are putting the
! flag to the fore with merchantmen
behind it. All which, If justice 1t not
outraged and human right overridden,
is to to be commended rather than con-
demned. But the British have never
| been at a loss for excuse to cover their
desire, and the result is that to-day
| the nation is the most cordially hated
and at the same time commercially the
most powerful on the globe. just now
| it would seem that England has been
making a series of blunders. Her pol
| icy in China has gained her nothing;
| indeed, it appears that she has been
snubbed in that quarter, and that in the
matter of the Japanese settlement no
account has been taken of her wishes
! or counsels. She has fallen into hot
water on the Venezuelan border, and
has arrayed against her all the Amer
| lean States save one. The Jameson
fasco has strained her relations with
Germany, and left her but one close
friend on the European continent, Italy.
and made war not unlikely.
Such, at least, say the foreign CORE
spondents, is the seeming, but we are
not ready to accept wholly their hasty
criticisms. We look to the cooling of
the sudden heat of the present, which
has been more apparent than real.
Germany and England will not part
company. Their interests lie too
close together. Emperor William
will not take up arms against
his maternal grandparent, not now at
least, but it does not follow that Eng
land will be any the less Inundated
because of this South African blunder
She has lost prestige, been snubbed by
twovery small Powers and laughed at by
great ones, and is not in a position to
resent The one or defy the other. We
must conclude that whatever the out
come of the inquiry into the Venezuelan
question, England will acquiesce in it.
She certainly will not go to war on
that account. She will not dare to en-
courage interference with the Beers,
for she has had notice that powerful
nation will not permit it. 1t is a humil-
iating complication for the British, but
there is now no way out of it for that
people without loss of prestige and
yielding which twenty years ago to
merely suggest would have brought the
answering roars of English shotted
guns.
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