The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-02-23
THE AFRICAN DICK TURPIN.
Music Hall songs Can't Threw CLAM
our Over .JaIaeson's Crimes.
VeW YoTk Sun.


In turning over Or. jameson and his fell
low criminals 10 be tried by the English
courts at the request OF the British high
commissioner, Sir Hercules Robinson,
President Kruger has put the English gov
eminent in a sharp dilemma. Should the
law officers maintain, as they probably
will. that the queen exercises suzerainty
over the Transvaal the ofense these men
have committed must be held to be taking
ZIP arms against the queens authority,
which is treason felony. an offense aggra-
waited by Jameson's direct disobedience 10
the orders Of the colonial secretary. Should
they be tried for any lesser offenAe, En-
gland must waive her claim to suzerainty
and officially acknowledge the absolute in
Dependence Of the TTansvaal republic. In
that case II Is difficult to see under what
law Jameson can be punished In England.
The provisions Of the foreign enlistments
act apply. II seems. only TO where action Is
taken against friendly nation actually at
war with another. il being impossible for a
civilized nation IN this century to admit
that its subjects can In a time OF peace
make an uBprovCked attack on the persons
and property OF the subjects OF d friendly
state.
The obvious solution OF the difficulty.
namely, 10 consider Jameson and his gang
as private malefactors and hand them over.
10 be tried for the murders and attempted
the courts of the country and district
where the crimes were committed. En-
gland Is not likely 10 adopt. She has inter
fered 10 save these mems lives, and VIII
see that they escape scot free Unfortu-
uately IN spite Of London music hall songs.
Il Is hard 10 throw any glamour over what
every new revelation proves 20 he vulgar
crime. The immense odds against which
a few brave EnElishmen cOntende4 have
disappeared by the simple elision OF one
cipher: X was with 40 and not 400 Beers
that Kruger held Jameson at bay. while
the Official list OF killed. wounded and prts-
cners on the English side. not counting
those who ran away and escaped. contains
between $50 and Co names. The .'immi-
uent peril Of English women and children"
that spurred on this chivalrous raid was
50 little believed In at johannesburg tAat
while all England was in a ferTnenr over
the Imprisonment % the Consrirators. their
possible mAitreatuent BY the enraged
Beers. ard what might BE- going or in
Africa, Lord Hawke took his English
cricket eleven to Johannesburg. and every
one in the town dropped business and revo-
tuition for three whole days 20 watch a
cricket TnatctA
When SIR Francis Drake. Sir Walter
Raleigh. and rhe other gorgeous aayentur-
a~S az good Queen BeSs' time swcoped
down On ire rich cities - the spanish Main
and the gaIi@ons from the Indies, they
knew fhat = they failed the spaniards
would give tAsTn bur short shrtft. and great
Eliza would leave tkem 70 their fate. Their
less glorious Successors. Capt. Morgan and
Can't. william KIDD. followed their picfur-
esque aTecati0n Nth clear knowledge OF
re ya-s5Arua that awaited them = tae snip
they attacked proved tae stronger jaime
son ard his nineteenth century fTeeoosters
made their dash for the johannesburg gora
mines knowing that England and the BRIT
ism "a. srters.ei Company would See thai tfleF
came 70 ~ great harm. ard coNnftfiE on
tae humanity ~ foe Boers fhsX meant -
roo and tDey have found Tkyn7esieTs s1.n
ss they are. 70 sing tae.E pause al- e.
s.ala .es3y % aS4.&GA