The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-06

DR.. Jameson. In the first place. they
had never intended to do SO, nor had
they made any promises to do So II
was Jameson who was coming to help
them, and in the second place, in spite
of the fact that they had not guaran-
teed him any aid, even if they mad
thought that he needed it, they had no
means of conveying it to him unless
they chose at the same moment TO hand
the city over to their mutual enemy,
the Beers. But what is more import
ant to remember than all else beside,
is that there was no suspicion in the
minds of any one in johannesburg
that Jameson was in need of assistance
at any time during his ride.
AS one of Jameson's officers expressed
it to me in talking over the raid
few weeks since in London: We
thought" he said, that We would go
through the TranSvaal like q, glitter1ng
LORD MAYORS SHOW"
Many different reasons are given to
explain why jameson started when ne
did against orders, knowing the help
less condition of Johannesburg, and
with such an inadequate force, but the
reason thar probably is nearest Vse
truth is suggested by a remark he made
Just before he rode out of Making:
Those men are funking it, he said
I'm going to stir them up. That
speech undoubtedly is the real explana-
ton for his remarkable action; he want
ed to play the part they had assigned
him and he thought the others were
afraid to play theirs, and that the whole
expedition would come to nothing. He
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his invasion to the Transvaal, and ne
thought that the chance of his doing
so was slipping from him through the
half heartedness of the men Of johann
pesburg.
None of the men whose plans he
wrecked assigns any motive TO MIN
other than the love of a fight; the de-
sire to be in the center of whatever
is going forward, and the Increased
reputation that would come TO nm
They describe him as a man who has
no care for money; they say he could
have made himself rich in Mashonaland
had he wished to do So and that IN the
daily routine of life he is unselhsnneSs
itself, but that in this case ne failed
because he undervaiued his FRIENDS anu
overvalued his own strength. The men
who he considered
WE'RE ''FUNKING IT,
were in much greater danger for months
than was Jameson during the three
DAYS of his ride Their offer to go TO
Jail as hostages for his safe conduct
out of the country he had entered,
a against their entreaties, required much
more courage on their part, knowing
as they did, that the Beers We're only
too anxious to get them there on any
account, than it would have taken TO
y
hand to attempt an adelphi nelodrana
rescue.
On the night Jameson was marched a
prisoner to Pretoria the reform COM
nlittee was all but lynched for not
having gone to his rescue, and even
then it could not tell the excited people
that there were not over 1900 guns IN
the whole city of johannesburg. II was
not until Jameson's brother stepped Out
on the balcony of the gold fields oulfo-
ing and assured the mob that ne mad
been. ACQUAINTED with all that was go
ing forward during the ride, and that
even had he known that his brother 5
life was at stake he was satisfied that
it would have been impossible TO nave
helped him. The people We're qu1eted
and dispersed Three days later the re-
form committee was placed in Jail, con-
trary to promises made by Sir JacoouS
Dewet, the agent of the English com
mission, that If it agreed to an aTrnis-
tice it would not be moleSted. Tnas'
promise he now denies having made,
and BIr. Joseph Chamberlain is attempt
ing to support him in has denial, in the
face of published cablegrams which
TESTIFY TO THE CONTRARY.
The matter will be finally cleared
when the parliamentary committee
meets neXs fan.
In the meantime the testimony OF
Captain ]. F. Younghusband, the au !,
thor of "Where Three Nations Meet, ="
as to the conduct of the reform COM
mittee after it went to Jail, is interest
ing, as coming from one who was on
the spot as a spectator only and in no
way interested in tine revolution. In
the London Times of May 2 he writes:
"And certainly of cowardice the four
leaders cannot be accused, for can
show that they did not fear to face
death, even in the terrible form TO
which they were sentenced. One Of
those critical days, after Jameson had
surrendered, they were told that the
Beers were clamoring to have them
seized and shot at once, and it was
suggested to them that they should
quietly slip away from the country
while they still could I was myself
present on the occasion and heard
Colonel Rhodes and Mr.. George Far
rar say at once that even if they were
to be shot, they at Least intended like
men to stay where they were. The
others agreed with them, and with one
or two exceptions the entire committee
gave themselves up when the warrant
were issued without any attempt to
escape.
May I therefore ask their country
men to remove the stigma. of cowardice
which has been cast upon them? To
face any lawful punishment they are
prepared. They did not finch to face
death, but there in prison in a foreign
land, to have to bear the taunfS OF
cuwardice from their fellow country
men they feel is
THE CRUELEST BLOW
THAT could have been inflicted upon
then-crueI to them and cruel to their
children after them And now, when
under the severest sentence that can by
law be given and pronounced against
them, will not Englishmen show their
justice by repeating the sentence OF
cowardice which they so hastily put
upon them, and, give the reformers in
their hour of trouble the sympathy
they OBSERVER"
There is one story Of Mr.. Hammond
which was told me by others of the
reform committee, and which, while it
man. will give an idea Of his character
very i'll during his imprisonment, and
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