Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-05-01
THE UITLANDER REVOLT.
4 History Of the Affair That Is Interesting at
This Time.

The t-itlanders who have come into
the Transvaal built the fourishing
city of Johannesburg. opened IN vast
mining industry and attracted such a
swarm of enterprising. aggressive men.
drawn from the fortune-hunting ele-
ments of all nations. as to threaten to
| soon outnumber the Beers in their own
land are regarded by the sturdy Dutch
Africans of President krueger's repub-
lie very much as the Mormon saints re-
sarded the IDENTITIES" when they began
to pour into Utah after railroad con-
nection was esta blished with ii. Tit
| landers. meaning out-of- the-iand
| people. or outlaws is the equivalent
Ioer expression To "Gentiles'' as the
n ormons of Brigham Young's day used
| il. 1t was In 1890 that the Beers began
| to be badly troubled with the Uitlander
| invasion. Their old adversaries, the
| British. having extended their protec-
| torate over Zululand, began a move
ment in that year TO annex the Trans
Naal. y convention packed by British
| influences met at Pretoria, the Boer
| capital, and went through the forms of
voting for annexation to Great Britain.
But the tenacious hurghers We're not to
| convention of Uitlanders. They no
| sooner heard what had been done and
| that a body of four hundred British
| troops had been ordered up to occupy
| Pretoria than they took to the field
with their deadly rifles. The British
| troops never reached Pretoria In one
| small but stubborn fight after another
| the Beers beat back the Queens SOL
| a
| and finally inflicted upon them the SAN
| culinary defeat of Majuba Hill
| At no time in that famous campaign
were there more than seven hundred
British troops engaged. Ten times
that number might have been quickly
| sent up from Natal to retrieve the
prestige lost at Majuba Hill but Mr.
Gladstone. who was then premier, de-
cided that morally the Beers were
right. and that Great Britain was strong
enough to do justice and leave them TO
enjoy their independence without re-
| gard to the bad effect upon the British
military reputation in South Africa
which the Majuba Hill disaster might
nave. So a treaty of peace was made
by which the Transvaal republic pre-
served it's autonomy. but, as Mr.. Glad
stone stipulated, was to be subject to
Great Britain's guidance and control
IN its foreign relations But this linz
itation President Kreuger is now I'M
derstood to deny, and the German EN-
peror has seemed to be ready to help
him sustain the denial
Soon after the Gladstone treaty of
peace was signed gold was found in
large quantities in the Transvaal. That
inevitably brought new rush of
luitlanders. The Boer government has
doggedly fought them off 1t has i'm
posed heavy taxes on their mines and
special taxes on their mining tools all
with the idea of driving them off. But
the mines have paid so well that. in
Ispite of all these taxes, the Uitlanders
have kept on coming. Johannesburg
the metropolis of the Uitlanders. is TO-
day the finest city in South Africa. II
has good streets, electric lighting
street railways. fine hotels. churches
banks. theatres and all the incidentals
lof high civiliZation-except equal rights
on election day. The Boer government,
bars out majority of the residents OF
johannesburg from the rights of citi.
zenship because they are Uitlanders
They will have no language but the
Dutch in the courts or schools. though
the population of the city mostI,
speaks English. So the Uitlanders, in.
telligent neutrality-suspicious. men. own.
ing most of the city's property, fine
themselves without courts. schools OF
lvotes-practically with no rights thai
a Boer official is bound to respect
On Dec. &c. 1895, the National Unior
of the Transvaal. of which Charles
Seward was chairman, issued mani.
festo at johannesburg. in which they
declared they would labor for these
lends: