New-York tribune., 1896-01-13

the rescue OF the revolutonists with 500 armed
men and six machine guns.
Ihe man who had ca used all this uproar was
Scotchman in the prime of life. DR.. Jameson
went out to South Africa in 1S7S after winning
medals and a scholarship a medical student in
London. and made the acquaintance of Mr.. Cecil
Rhodes, prince among the fnanciers and da-
mond spectators of Kimberley, and political
leader with the talent of exciting enthusi-
asm among his followers. The two men became
intimate friends and during the last ten years
they have been closely associated in the accom-
plishment Of vast projects in South Africa. After
the amagamation Of the diamond mines
erected. Mr. Rhodes the millionaire statesman,
induced DR.. jameson to abandon a lucrative
practice and TO enter permanently into the ser
vice of the State With Mr.. Rudd he was sent
on mission to Lobengua. 10 obtain leave for
the entrance Of the pioneer expedition into Ma
shonaland; and not long afterward he was In
Gungunhamas country negotiating for conces
sions. He was one of the most active agents in
securing enargements Of the territories Of the
Chartered Company, of which he became the
administrator at a critical time, when the Beers
from the Transvaal were preparing to invade
Bechuanaland and only dissuaded by his
consummate tact The successful campaign
his administration of the vast territory controlled
by the Chartered Company has been prudent and
efficient. This the man who had suddenly
burned his bridges and plunged into the Trans
vaa with an army In the service Of the Char
tered Company behind him.
This was not an irresponsible. hot-headed fill
buster making predatory warfare on his own
account and aspiring to a dictatorship. like
Walker in Nicaragua. Whatever may be the
explanations and denials Of the Cape officials,
it is simply incredible that so cool and self
contained man as Dr. jameson should nave
acted as he did without having secret under
standing with his patron and associate Mr.
Rhodes Premier of Cape Colony and managing
director of the Chartered Company. Surely, his
military force was not by accident at Mafeking'
the most accessible station in Bechuanaland for
an advance across the Transvaal. He could not
have acted impulsvely In response to sudden
summons from johannesburg for protection and
relief from impending danger. The evidence
such as there is-and the cables have suspended
service and there is suspicious dearth OF trust
worthy news-points to long-planned. de-
liberate attempt on the part of Mr.. Rhodes ana
his agents to force the hand Of the Secretary
for the Colonies and TO involve Great Britain
in a war for tie subjugation and extinction or
the Iransvaal as q Dutch Republic. That Is
the view taken in Holland and Germany 1t Is
shared also by the ring of mllionaires ana
spectators In London who have been manag-
ing the Kaffir Circus.
If DR.. jameson had succeeded in reaching
Johannesburg he could have rallied around him
the mining camps and alien population ana
revolution would have been proclaimed
There would have been 200 English against
5000 Beers and good marksmen and brave sol
diers as the Dutch farmers are. the final re-
suit would not have been in doubt. especially
with the swarms of volunteers available at Kim
berley and Cape Town for campaign of re-
venge for Majuba Hill and the conquest OF the
richest gold fields of Africa. II the British Gov
ernment had made a determined effort To stand
| nv it's treaties with the Transvaal and TO eX-
| tricate itself from alarming complications with
| Germany II would have arrayed itself In nos
| tility to its own colonies. and possibly nave
| estranged them for all time Dr. Jameson uh-
| doubtedly calculated all the chances when ne
| made his plunge. He knew that II he couId
enter johannesburg with his soldiers MI
| Rhodes would support him, and that England
| would never send an army 10 South Africa to
| coerce and subjugate its own coionsts.
| Fortunately for Mr. Chamberlain and Eng
| land the Beers were too quick for Dr Jane
son They intercepted him on the way. and
| defeated
| tails of this engagement are lacking, and noth-
| ing Is known at the Colonial Office except the
! bare fact that DR. Jameson is prisoner ana
that the Beers have triumphed once more over
the invaders OF their country. IT is another
| Maiuba IIill. and. strangest OF anomalies. the
British Government is rejoicing over the defeat
| Of English colonists Well they may do So TOT,
| apart from the immortality and wickedness OF
this lawless filibl-stering raid against the Dutch
| Republc in wanton defiance of treaty engage
| ments there was menace OF war from the
| one Power in Europe which England can least
| afford to offend. This predatory campaign
| against the Beers. inspired as every one be-
| ueves by the ambitious Premier Of Cape Col
onv and conducted by the armed forces OF the
| chartered company with every sign OF pre-
meditation and prearrangement. has enkindieA
| doom resentment in Germany and called out
| an explosive dispatch from the Emperor 10
President Kriger. which is almost as undipio-
matte in form and as irritating to Enghshmei
as President Cleveland's Venezuela message
| " ]. y. f.
| rur DpCcJDENT AND THE BOND ISStE.