The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-14
IN LONDON A YEAR AGO
DIR. Jameson, Now so Humble, was Made
Lion Then.

Lion Then.
Washington, D. C. Jan. 13.-British
expansion IN South Africa in recent
years has been little short of phenome-
nal A vast empire of fertile land. rich
in minerals, has been annexed through
the agency of the British Chartered
company. whose leading spirit is the
famous South African millionaire Cecil
Rhodes, premier of Cape Colony. The
British Chartered company is attempt
ing much the same role in Africa as
that played 50 successfully by the East
India company in Asia, and Rhodes IS
it's Warren Hastings, while Jameson
has essayed the part of Give. The Pc
culiar genius of the English as a coloniz
ing and conquering race is as stTiklngly
eXemplified in the careers of these two
ninteenth centuries adventures as in
those of their prototypes in India over
hundred years ago The story is al
ways the same: In whatever part OF
the world an opportunity for the ad-
vancement Of British interests offers,
some daring Englishman is to be found
ready and eager to strike a blow for
his country, though knowing in ad-
vance that conSidera ton of diplomacy
may cause his act to be "disavoWed."
If he succeeds, lhe is hero; If he fails
he must bear the consequences alone.
DR.. Jameson's conduct, rash and fool
hardy as it seems, is Enthusiastically
English; it is by means of just such ex-
ploits, again and again repeated, that
England has established her footing
in every quarter of the world. What
ever we may think of the morality OF
the wholesale land-graibbing which Eng
hand has thus been enabled to practice
for hundreds of years, We can scarcely
withhold our admiration of the spirit
which prompts individual Englishmen
TO risk everything to advance their
country's boundaries at any given point.
Cecil Rhodes and DR.. Jameson paid a
visit ITO England just a year ago, and
We're the lions of the hour. They We're
recognized and fated everywhere as the
creators and guardians of a, policy OF
territorial expansion which had already
extended the sphere of British sovereign
ty and influence over the greater part Of
South Africa and which bade fair, in
little while TO penetrate to the heart or
the Dark Continent beyond the shores
of Lake Tanganyika. From his post
as premier in Cape Town, Mr.. Rhodes
directed the opera tons of the company,
wthile DR.. Jameson, as administrator OF
its vast possessions, attended to the
practical details of government. In an
address to the Imperial Institute in
1895, DR.. Jameson gave a sketch of the
history and results of the colonial move
ment to the northward from Cape Colo
ny, Bechuanaland, the scene of DR..
Living stones labors, was first secured
as a crown colony in 1885, with an En-
glish prOtectorate to the 22d degree of
latitude. Malta beleland and MaShona-
land Were next acquired through the
fundamentally of Mr.. Rhodes. Later
- il I
ing to Lake Tanganyika, which has
been named Rhodesia in honor of its
promoter" in Rhodesia," said DR..
Jameson, ''we have a country nearly
as large as Europe-a liveable country,
a country where white men and women
can live, where white children can be
reared in health and vigor." Iron, he
added was almost universally dis
tributed, and coal beds. spread over a
large area, have been discovered south
Of the Zambesi. The agricultural and
pastoral possibilities Of the region are
said to be great. During the past four
years LOCO miles of road. connecting all
the townships and outlaying gold fields
with the centers, and ], 800 miles of tele-
graph have been built. The railway
from the east coast has been carried to
Chimoco, only 230 miles from the CAPT
tai. Salisbury. From the south coast
the railroad has been extended to MAIZE
king, and in three years il is expected
there will be through railroad cOmmu-
nication between Cape Town and Bula-
wayO. in Matabeleland. During his stay
in England Mr.. Rhodes effected an
agreement with the British government
by which DR.. Jameson's powers as adj
miniStrator were to be extended across
the Zambesi to the southern end of
Lake Tanganyika.
Tt was the dream of Mr.. Rhodes to es-
talblish some sort of federation of the
South African colonies, and he advOcat-
ed, while in England, a combination OF
Cape Colony. the Orange Free State md
Rhodesia-''with Natal possibly luke
warm and only the Transvaal inimical.
and the Transvaal, with a population of
nearly $4,000 Englishmen and Cape Col
oniSts, equally DESTROYS with US, as
against a population OF about $4,000
Beers opposed"
1t was this great predominance Of
Englishmen, in point ofnumbers, in the
Transvaal which probably determined
DR.. Jameson to move against the Beers.
He was doubtless convinced that they
would rally to his support, and this fact
serves TO explain the smallness Of his
force.
Rhodesia, from which the incursion
was made lies TO the nOrthward and
westward Of the South African. or
Transvaal republic. Hitherto the Beers
have had to contend with British ag-
gression from the south. but now they
are hemmed in on all sides except the
east. RhCdeSia, as stated. is north and
west, the British possessions Of Natal
and Cape Colony, with the annexed dis
trictS Of Basutoland and Griqualand. |
are on the south. The nOminaly indie
pendent Beor republic, Orange Free
State, adjoins their southern border, but
Il is practically under British control. /
and eastward steadily by EnCliSbmen. /
driven first out Of one tract Of country
and then another. Now they can 50 no
farther: the way is blocked and they are
making their last stand.
The .sord boer is Dutch for farmer
and IS used % designate the descendants I
Of the colonists from Holland, who So
He'd at the Cape of Good Hope in 1852.
Just sixteen years after Leonard Cal
vert landed at St. Mary's and founded
the Province Of Maryland. The Beers
as their name implies. are engaged al
most exclusively II agricultural and
pastoral pursuits. Their colony at
Capa Town was captured by the Brit
ish in 1906 and was formally coded %
them in 1916. The beers left The COM
nv in 1886 and founded the Orange
Free State and later the Transvaal Re /
public In 1877 England annexed the /
Transvaal. but three years later the /
Beers revolted and obtained the recog- !
milton Of their independence in ali mat !
ters Of domestic control, the direction |
Of their foreign relations being left 10 |
Great Britain as Suzerain. This ar /
would probably have work .
II Wen enough but far the discovery /
II rich deposits Of gold y the souta- (
ern pant Of the country The R0s-S /