Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-04-27
DEsPIsED THE ENGLISH.
South Africanders Explain the Mata-
belle Uprising.

belle Uprising.
w. E. Hcllard advocate and notary of
the high court of the Transvaal, and a man
who has held a number of important offices
under the Boer government, arrived i'll
New York Saturday OIL the American line
steamer ST. Paul. Mr.. Holland is a Boer
himself, having been born in the Trans
vasl, and lived there for forty years.
THE Jameson affair is directly RESPONSE
BILE for the Matabele war;" he said to a
New York Sun reporter, land there is go
ing to be much fighting and much blood
shed before the war is over. 1t would never
nave happened had the English taken the
advice and accepted the assistance Of Pres
icent Kruger at the beginning of the trou-
bIe.'
Referring to the defeat of Jameson's
men, he sstd:
1T was this gallant fight on the part of
the Boer. which started the Matabele trou-
BILE. II the people understood the kaffirs
as we do. they would see in an instant the
whole thirg. Everything is an object les
son to them, and they naturally got very
low opinion of the English soldiery when
they saw 25O Beers rout 100 Englishmen
with ease. Then, too, the rapid-fire guns,
which above every modern firearm ever in
troduced in Africa are most dreaded by the
kaffirs, were captured by the Beers, and
the Kaffir5 knew it, and got it into their
heads that they could whip the English
Themselves"
Samuel Lichterstaeder of Buluwayo also
arrived by the st. Paul. Mr.. Lichtenstae-
der is Mssissippisn. He agrees with Mr..
Holland that the uprising in Matabeleland
is the result o: Kaffir contempt for the
British arm S, inspired by Jameson's fiasco.
THE Matabeie police" he said yes;er-
day, includes 400 or 800 natives These
have been armed by the Chartered Com
pany with rifles. For several months the
native police have made frequent requsi-
lions for and ammunition
porting that theirs had been lost spoil
ed. AS fast as the acquisitions were grant
ed the police distributed the rifles and am
munition among the natives In this way
fully 5000 natives were armed. The upris-
ing followed.
Since it began the prices of all proys-
ions have jumped up almost out of sight.
Boer meal, usually selling at 40s. a pound,
is now quoted at IS los. Mealies have risen
from Dos. to f6 los. Added to this, a dis
ease has spread among the cattle, and all
of the infected herds have teen ordered to
be killed. Besides being torn by an insur-
rection. the country is threa tened with a
famine
There is no telling when the uprising
will be put down. The natives will never
fight openly If they can avoid it, and until
they are eXterminated or frightened into
subsection this ambush fighting can go on
Indefinitely. The greatest fear now is that
the natives may steal into Buluwayo at
night and fire the city.
'BelCre JameSonS RAID there was no
trouble with the Matabeles. They were
used as servants, and made good ones.
They had been subjected, and looked upon
the white population as their masters. A
Matabele is like a dog. Once whipped he
will lick your hands. Jameson furnished
them with a bad example.
Until the present uprising things were
prosperous in Matabeleland. You must re-
member that i am a foreigner there, and
when say things were prosperous l say 1t
from a Uitlander's standpoint We con-
slider that prosperous wien we are
making money. For instance, two years
ago l bought a stand Getty loD in Bulu-
wayo for ESQ. Just before / left l sold it
for Is, 0OO'