The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-14
aIrIsH HATE OF THE BOERS.
,,vaCRLsIN SEEKING AN EXCUSE
TO ATTACK THEM.

VtOpF PFeSlutbN A~~~~,-S
oDc More Gallant Defense of
po.r Liberties and Seeking an
,,,,.uce with the Orange Free
state.
convrght, 1897. by the Sun Printing ana
V"p' publishing Association.
,oDdon. March 13.--Public attention has
% concentrated for several weeks
~, the crisis in the east that little notice
w. been taken of the really critical rela-
'a,ns now existing between Great Britain
.na the Transvaal republic.
rnore Is strong reason for believing that
-. English government is seeking the ear
,.,t opportunity or excuse for making one
nore attempt to crush the little republic
-sioh so many times has successfully re-
decd British invasions. Colonial Secre-
.,,, Chamberlain is credited with just
.n,b an outrageous policy and his atti-
.na, IN several recent occasions has done
rncb TO Justify the suspicion. He empha-
s,as repeatedly in his examination of Mr..
phodes before the South Africa commits
.on his conviction that the present re-
rtr1ni
and orenly intimated that the British gov
eminent would have given full support to
q, pltnatum in the gold drifts question
last october had it been necessary.
All of Mr.. Chamberlains incest utter
o,ces in parliament with reference to the
Transvaal have been sarcastic and intol-
Grant. He openly declares that the pres
ert relations between the two countries
are gravely strained. There has been
free talk within a few days Of an ulti-
matum to President Kruger, with Lord
Wolseley and 10000 troops in the back
ground.
There is, of course. every effort to make
1t appear that President Kruger is taking
the offensive, but nobody need be deceiv-
ed thereby. The keen old statesman of
the Rand knows perfectly well that Eng
land is trying to pick a quarrel with him,
and he is simply making ready, as he
should do, for one more gallant defense
Of the BOer liberties against the rapa-
cous greed of goldworshipping English
men. This week he was making speeches
in the Orange Free State, where he has
DeeIl on q ullSSlOl WHICH 10 pISlNy we'll III
derstood to include a scheme of offensive
as we'll as defensive alliance of the two
African republics against England. His
peculiar style of oratory is not relished in
England, and where everybody Is ready to
take offense, whether it is intended or not.
In one grafton he talked cheerfully about
the neat way his keen-eyed buTghers had
shot Englishmen when the foreigners in
yaded the Transvaal, and the fact that
nj lon a.afl ff.s f1aa
facts, does not sweeten it for
British palates. In another speech
the old man paid ponderouS
compliments to Queen Victoria, or at any
rate, the world has been given to under
stand that they were meant to be compli-
ments. Among other remarks, he de-
elared that the queen was "een kwaje
Vrouw' and a controversy is now raging
as to the meaning of this phrase. Reuters
Ieiegram Company, which is the official
boer agency as far as South African news
concerned, translates the remark as a
difficult woman"
Ihe Central News, which in South Afri-
can affairs, is ultra-British, cables from
cape Town that Mr.. Krugers words were
meant to be contemptious and that their
Ateral and also colloquial meaning Is IAN
angry woman" or ''shrew."
Inc London Globe which may be fairly
regarded as the organ of Mr.. Rhodes, says
lhe expression is frequently used in the
Iransvaal with reference to bad tempered
ANIMALS, which, when annoyed. kick or
ule' Thus "een kwake mannetje" is an
oppression applied to a cock ostrich, which
an habltual and vigorous kicker. Mr.
Afuser, 1t is urged, really intended to de-
scribe Queen Victoria as a vicious woman.
Whatever Mr.. Kruger meant, English
men men are bound to put the worst construc-
AS to his mission to the Orange Free
sate' private cables indicate that he will
popdDiy rail as to his main object, as the
politics.
One can scarcely take up an English pa
pei now without finding in some form or
aHoluer the obviously absurd accusation
.aal president Kruger has the design to
mgvoke England to war. Certainly the
,er a'ont old republican shows a fine con-
1gnPt H. OF British susceptibilities and stout
~ uecllhes 10 accept as a rule of faith
e proposition that the English are a
.edVen-sent race, which sooner or later
dominate South Africa Moreover.
~ sehemently declines to allow England
interfere in the domestic concerns OF
me-, Iiouhtry' but he has done absolutely
'n,ns 10 Justify the charge that he would
su@ch @ TOOL as to force a war
bsn"uS announced to-day that a month
,ba ~ c the Royal Irish regiment. one of
ssIi .ilesl corps Of the British army, will
cer.1t ~ south Africa, nominally, to relieve
bn, ,' 4, troops at Cape Colony and Natal.
me, really Is intended as a reinforce
I 'HWt ~ 10 a garrison which IS already lars,e-
M excess Of normal requirements. II
msIo pe ADDED, and the announcement IS
Conn, COM punilc for the first time that the
nor,. iiiauaers Of several British regiments
lbs, ~ ~ ihdla, have been secretelv warned
s@r,., elelr corps may be resuired for active
bas IN South Africa before the summer
"as Tar advanced. '0 summer
som opIlllsh war Office will have IN M,
% r. -0,Vo troops in the streets on .Tnnc
fro,,, ,,'e gay when Queen Victoria nrocosd,
tboJr.I 'Alnham palace to st. Paups ca
abbr,. 10 oHer up thanks to God for ON
relgns "er TO beat the record in roval
been II the original programmes bsd
FpfIio. I1hered TO 10000 men would ba,,.
mar., ana the war office could have
Nou, that on its head. so 10 sneak
proe,. \ IS nearly off It's head as ne
cest ~ or what Is regarded as tbe NJ
war l''ihtary display since the crIn,e,,,
bsr,,.o over forty years afo. There az ~
mors ~ accommodations In London for
addiiianeaih a normal garrison ana % eOo
qusr,l.lal troops cannot, IL seems ho
eaey 5eu IN the garrison towns witbt,.
ba -istance Of the metropolis. beca,,sa
quite u"ay managers say they wifi bs,,s
br,n. ouBh 20 90 on the great dav -
Soc 'ne hundreds Of thouear,do - -i.,..