The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-05-02
TROUBLE AHEAD FOR THE BOERS.

That trouble is brewing in the Trans
wall is we'll known. The Uitlanders
are organizing again and arming for an
uprising and the Beers are gathering
ammunition and arms and preparing
to maintain themselves. \ statement
in the San Francisco Chronicle" We'd
nesday by Henry Buffers, is to the eff
feet that he has late advices from the
Transvaal, and that his correspondents
are gentlemen of perfect reliability
and they declare that a revolution is
imminent 1t is rather significant that
this threatened uprising should begin to
he manifest at the same time that ships
and troops are being fitted out in Eng
land for South Africa, in number and
offensive manner, that constitute a
threat of war.
The English unquestionably are de-
termined to maintain the doctrine of
superior power" and therefore right
10 dominance" in South Africa In
twenty years the English have more
than quadrupled their possessions in
that part Of the world; indeed they
now control all the region save the
Orange Free State. Swaziland, the
South African Republic which is the
Transvaal and what little the Portu-
guese cling to. They have steadily
driven back and out all others who
We're in the region, and some of them
who were the earlier Corners, as was
the case with the Beers
When the latter retreated to the
Transvaal it was thought that English
aggression would cease. But in this
the world was mistaken. The last ris-
ing of the Uitlanders and the stimuli
taneOus raid Of Jameson and his land
pirates. we now know was a Ions
planned scheme to seize the Transvaal
down the Beers and establish new
form of Government, with England as
the patron.
The article in the "ChronicIe" makes
a defense of the Uitlanders that is
worth examining First, that the Krue-
ger Government Expresses the Uitland-
ers. otherwise the foreigners. Second,
that these Uitlanders are oppressively
taxed and are denied representation in
the local Government Third the for
eigners came in and developed the min
eral and other wealth of the country,
found the republic poor and have made
it rich, but they are Disseminated
against, denied civil rights and suffer
under a grievous tariff imposition
Fourth. that the English, who mainly
compose the Uitlander class. have been
patient and forbearing. they have been
peaceful ard law abiding. they came t.
benefit the Beers. and had the last up
rising succeeded would have given the
Boer a better Government than he now
has. Lastly, that it is against the An
glo-Saxon grain to stand these impo-
sitions and this injustice, and that had
the Uitlanders been such men as were
the hardy pioneers of California the
Kreuger Government would long since
have been blown up
That is the case OF the foreigners and
the indictment against the Beers. Let
US look at the other side The Beers
are an agricultural people. They be-
lieve, and rightly so. that the develop
ment of the mining industry is bad for
their social system and will bring into
1t vices that nothing in the way OF
wealth and development of natural re
sources can justify They said to tbs
Uitlander very emphatically. I'VE dc
not want the mines opened, we do not
wish mining camps established. But
If you viii mine you must do so under
the laws Of the place, and these We
make; you must pay the taxes we
choose to levy upon that business anc
ell other trade and industry. and these
shall apply alike to our own people"
Then came the demand from the for
eigners for representation. the right oil
suffrage. etc. To these the Beers re
piled by pointing them to laws thai
require a longer term of residence il