Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-01-16
A FILIBUSTER's FAILURE.

Hill, fifteen years ago, has such
a reverse been met in South
Africa as that which came to DR..
Jameson and a party of English
flibusters on New Years day
DIR. Jameson is an ageat OF Cecil
Rhodes South African Company.
the mighty concern which has
enriched hundreds of spectators
and adventures and aroused
such a passion of cupidity as has
not been known since Warren
Hastings ''shook the pagoda
tree" of India, or Pizarro dis
covered the wealth of the Incas.
Barney Barnato, an ex circus
clown, is to-day dazzling London
society with his alleged 5000, 000,-
900 gained from the new Ell Do
RADIO, and hobnobbing with all
sorts of dignitaries, from pin
cess Of the blood royal down
to Aldermen and Joseph Cham
berlain. He has excited the
envy of thousands of his country
Iuen and revived the spirit Of
Drake and Capt. Kidd in the
British bosom.
Wherefore, when DR.. Jameson
a past master OF the art of civil
ing savage or weak nations off
the face Of the earth and taking
their lands and gold in payment,
projected a flibustering raid on
the Transvaal country to which
the discovery of gold in large
quantities had attracted a horde
of adventures, he had no trouble
in enlisting the cooperation Of
kindred spirits for the enterprise.
With 800 followers, including a
dozen officers of the Guards, sew
eral scions of nobility and other
young men who are always ready
for the past.me of ''potting a ma
tive" he set out from British
South Africa for johannesburg
in the Transvaal. The band of
flibusters were well armed and
mounted, and confidently ex-
pected to surprise the Beers.
They had moreover, assurances
that their countrymen in johann
nesberg were to rise on the last
day of the year, and when the
government of the republic en-
deavored to suppress them he
would be justified in crying
1.-The Beers are .massecring our
countrymen. Blood is thicker
than water. We come to their
rescue"
The rising did not take place.
Perhaps the intruders saw
something which prevailed upon
them to postpone operations.
Howbelt, when DR.. jameson and
his buccaneers crossed the line
they were met by the Boer rifle
men, as Sir George Coliey was
met by Paul Kruger in 1881, and
in a short time the Doctor and
bis command were prisoners,
with a loss of over seventy killed
and fifty wounded. By this time
DIR. jameson probably has a
wiser head on his shoulders than
he had on New Years Day, I'M
less the Beers have thoughtfully
removed it.
The London papers comment
Enthusiastically on the affair,
that nothing but success would
have justified the invasion"
Not having succeeded, DR..
Jameson will be made a scape-
goat for the sins of Cecil Rhodes.
Joseph Chamberlain and all the
other high instigators of the
piratical project. There is no
question there as in Venezuela
of a disputed frontier line. The
boundaries of the Transvaal
were established by treaty and
confirmed by the bullets CT Paul
Kruger. The English have not
a shadow Of a right or claim to
johannesburg or to an inch of
Boer territory; but the flibusters
would have been Justified" if
their raid had been successful.
The English adventures have
been taught a bitter lesson, but
they are likely to receive a still
sharper one. The Government
of Germany has been appealed 20
by President Kruger, and as
Germany has its rights in South
Africa, where everybody has
rights except the r1ghtful own
ers of the soil, Kaiser Wilhelm
is deeply offended by the British
trespass and has asked what it
means.
OF course it means no more
than the same conduct mean in
Venezuela, Alaska, or any part