Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-11-04
THE BOER'S SIDE.
England Has Been the Pitt
less AggTeSSOr.
.TYRANT FOR THE SAKE OF GOLD.

IIIAvE people n right 20 eight FOR
their homes and tho homes of |
their fathornf u they have not |
then the Bocra are now engaged ga |
an unholy and uurighto0ua war 10 b.
"a war. however. that has been forccl |
ON them by great and aggressive cm- !
plro, an empire whose rapacity and du- |
piicity has become a byword through
out the world.
There are many reasons why I and
an my brother BoCru fear this same
! british empire. when, over q century
ago, the valiant forcfathcrs OF the pres
Ont burghcru Of the South African Re
/ public sct sail from their native shores
and founded new homes and now set
Element Ia this fnron Cape country u
was thought that they would here. az
least be allowed 10 follow their own
| peaceful pursuits. They were. as they
always have been, an honest. out
spoken, God fearing and umlcahlu peo-
| pie. asking not ~ their nciRhborH AMI
intrudlng not on their enemies.
A. the Cape our furCfathora subduo
the natives. gave them homes nnI
clothing ana did their best to onlIghtcn
them. In return Tor this the Kaifirr
worked on the land and ava that labor
Tor which they were By nature nttcd.
| Then the English came nocking down
10 the Cape nnd. with phaHsaical hor-
/ ror said that we had no business to|
treat blacks like dogs and that II was
our duty nH Christians TO llboratc every
slave in our colony. This we declined
10 do, knowing Il was no worse 10 en-
slave natives by the hundred than 10
was 10 hayonct them by the thousand
The English. however. won their
point being the greater and more ng-
grcaHivo power They promised 20 pay
our people. however. Tor every slave sct
free. Hut even IN their works OF char
ny the English could not be honest.
They paid Tor the slaves. II IL true. but
did 40 In paper redccmublc at London
only. This paper was worthless at the
Cape and was bought W at ridiculous
and ruin0ua discounts. Then the n0cru
washed their hands of the English and
trokkcd northward what those heroic
home seekers endured during their long
Journey into the dark interior will new
or be known The fruits Of that great
trek was the foundation N the Zuil
AffikaniHche Republlek and tine orange
Free state, Here. at last. It was
thought pastoral and simple minded
people might take up their homes and
dwell In peace.
Never before had such a mistake been
! made. The leopard cannot change his
: spots, nor the Anglo-saxon his viking
heart. For ten centuries he has been a
q iandgrabbor and an nggrcasor.
: In 1871 Britain again Invaded and
captured our country. We were then
! la. .r.A l. .
- Invasion would have been dearly paid
% Tor But we were willing 90 walt
\ After three years OF tyranny we pro-
q pared 20 shake on the yoke How of-
r foouycly we did Il England remembers
d 90 this day. Boys not yet out OF thelt
e teens. old burghors who had passed
, their throcscurc years and ten. women
% oven. with babes In the cndlc-ali tooh
% up their truaty rifles and went out t.
e nght Tor home and freedom God show,
cd which side He was on by the victories
! VI Lniugsnek. Bronckcr'a sprult and
10 Mnluba lllll. ENGLAND saw We were %
. earnest and wisely granted ua our in
{ dependence. AZ last the Boer had hli
a freedom.
], nut In the meantime n change Ia.
% been creeping over our country. Tha
70 land which we had first thought q,
u rude and inhospitnhic was found &
q have hidden beneath Us rugged sur
Y face wealth of gold the like OF whicl
- the world has never before seen. I
% was blessing that carried with Il m
n own curse. Il drew like a magnet TN
y rinran u the world within our borders
e Speculators and odventurorB swarmet
'- into our quiet little towns. and mei
b whose only quest was wealth tried 4
O. elbow ua out " our hard earned homes
b. Then, too. came Cocii Rhodes and hi
.c empire building compatriots. Whei
"a this man Rhodes stood In q little gro
'o cory shop nt Cape Town and stretche,
ID his great paw over the entire map %
D. South Africa and said IAN British, tina
i Is my dream" be made a confession
u that the world should never forget. I
'o Is a key 10 the present situation. al
30 explanation OF why the Hocr IL todo,
W. hghtlng Tor existence. struggling. per
" haps valnly, against a band Of land
BIZ rahbera intoxicated with dreams OF a
IN African empire.
va Three years after the granting Of IN
"a independence Of the Trnnsvanl tho Lon
o. don convention came together and drel
er up "a new agreement In that agree
" ment England quietly gave back To GU
w country the suzeraln rights she ha
r before Insisted upon, and In the ne'
IA document there was made no mentio
ik or auzcralniy or colonial obligation. Tn
or English today claim that all this wa
IN Understood. We claim that such wa
"a not the case.
During tho next ten years we foun
70 ourselves harassed by these intrusiy
he ultlander, who gradually grew NOR
lg and more audaclouH and kept maxim
IN more and more impossible demand
iy Their organization and threatonin
ed movements naturally prompted on
ut government In lts onicial capacity I
he do what II could to preserve itse
Oh against its enemies on the one han,
and among the people at large on n
lother, aroused sufficient suspicion an