The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-01-26

small Loss if the Beers Had Killed
Every One of Them.

Glasgow Letter IN London Times.
Even 10 the majority of our newspaper
editors the Monroe doctrine is a new, I'M
hearyi-of and fatal stumbling block. FIJI
butter Jameson has another and less COM
plicated doctrine. which a pious Scottish
officer enforced upon his troops on the
eve Of battle. and which was 10 trust in
Providence. but keep their powder dry"
F!iibuster jameson forgot in his raid into
the Transvaal a detail which the Scottish
officer also forgot and which was not 10
fire at random. but shoot straight. This
detail is the point on which the African
Boer relies, and when the Beers shot down
the best British troops at Majuba as II
our soldiers had been so many cock pleas
ants. the lesson was not lost. unless to the
FallstaG lot of banditti which followed
Jameson across the frontier into the Trans
vaal-
Who the bandltti were that followed
Jameson in his invading escapade has been
explained by the wailing in London clubs.
military and others. and among the West
End aristocracy of London. The follow
ing OF Jameson was the well-known Off
securing OF what is here called society
military officers who have retired TO pre-
vent them from being cashieTed the ser
vice. students who have failed to pass the
examinations for doctors and lawyers,
spendthrifts who have ruined themselves
and others. the refuse of London gam
bling hells." and the large class of young
men who have been heart-breaks to their
families. If the Beers had swept Jane
sons cohort off the face of the earth there
would have been little public or private
sorrow over its fate. Our larger cities
here are having what are called "destruct-
ors" built in which refuse and rubbish are
burned up, but as yet human rubbish can
not be gotten rid of in this way. Such pro-
vidences as the johannesburg raid supply
the place of a destructor. II viii hardly be
believed that the influence of the highest
families is being used to save the lives OF
the aristocrat!c rebels who have fallen
into the hands of the Beers. Had they be-
longed TO our regular army and been the
sons OF Woodworking tradesmen not a
finger would have been raised 10 protect
them.
Mr. Chamberlain and his colleagues are
bound 10 denounce jameson and his raid
ers. and a few of our newspapers do also.
but the majority hope for some sort of
vengeance on the Beers. whose great fault
has been allowing alien miners and alien
traders to locate inside their territory. OF
course. as soon as the alien population was
strong enough IL demanded the franchise
for the purpose of overturning the laws of
the Transvaal in their favor and the Beers
have been denounced and war made upon
them for obiecting TO hand away their
country To the stranger.
a Scottish paper puts in A sentence what
may prove 10 be the outcome of Jameson's
raid The Dundee Advertiser says il may
be ire advent Of "flare-up Of an.i-British
passion all over the world which is newt
able. and will come at a time when things
are hot enough about our ears"
our aristocracy and Tory politicians
have been longing for Tory government
that would improve trade. vindicate Eng
llsh arrogance. hasten military promotion
and pursue a warl!ke policy at variance
with Liberal views.
with the troubles over Venezuela and Ar
menia Ashantee and. finally, the Cape Of
Good Hope. the Tories are having their
desires gratided. and Il viii not take many
months 10 develop the advantages OF their
regime.
As far as Jameson's raid into the Trans
vaat is concerned, the parties most to be
envied are the poor Matahele people. who
must enjoy a quiet chuckle over the spec-
down like dogs. and which the world out
side OF parties and sympathizers. cannot
very well avoid smiling AT. Since the Afri-
can Chartered Company has had ample op-
portunities Of knowing that Jameson's in
tended raid was being prepared for. il has
brought upOn itself the odum OF the fill
buster expedition. and the company under
a Liberal home government would have
been exploded But Lord Salisbury believes
in chartered companies Like the old John
C0mpanv's East India Company. they are
the means Of extending territory and com
nlerco and. above all. providing an outlet
for the om-scourinEs OF the ar.stocracy.