The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-11-02
WHAT THE BoER WAR MEANS.
INSCRIPTIONS Capitalists Want to
Plumber the TransVaaI.
To tha Edition Of the GFoha.

To the Editor of the Globe:
In order that your readers may get a
true insight to the causes leading up to
the present unholy war against the
Boers,~ allow me- as an English AMERICA,
to give you a true version of the con-
riitions existing there, as told me by q
fifteen years resident of Johannesburg.
The impcrialist papers in order to boil. te.,
up our own unholy war in the Philip
pines. are citing the IIcer campaign in
behalf Of the British as a parallel case,
and l admit that it is. with the evidence
all in favor of the Beers.
1t is asserted that the outIaRders-for-
eigners-are denied citizenship. This is
but one Of the many falsehoods ci.Tu-
lated by those interested in bolstering up
the imperial policy. The fact is thai the
whites, whether citizens hy birth or
naturaliZed, after five years res.dGnce
and On payment of e25, are entitled to
take Fart in the election of the memb rs
of the volksraad and of the president.
For membership to the Fad and for
the presidency, only natives or residents
of fifteen years standing, owners Of zeal
estate and processing the Protestant re-
ligion, are eligible. All those who sig ned
the petition for annexation to England
are excluded from the right of suf a e
anG from holding public office. They are
,
as they deserve to be-
The object Of the present campaign IS
plain to any one convcrSant with the
causes that have occaSioned it. The tact
IS that under Boer law, the natural in
crement of the soil cannot belong to in
dividuals, but only to the government.
TICw much better for this country If The
law were The same here; we would not
be subjec! to the extortions of the CCal
tIO ycct toi Of IL on
in tie Mesaba range would belong to all
the people, instead Of to Rockefeller, Car
negie ct all
In the Trarsvaal, individuals can dig,
on payment of a tax on all that thy y eb-
tain from the sell; but all mine, ais. Tn il
dug, belong to the government. Under
such a law here, 1t would be impossible
to form a trust in any mineral
Cecil Rhodes and his chartered COM
pany~ are the Rockefei1ers of the Trans
vaaI republic which stands In the path
of their securing monopoly of the gold
producing region, as they already have Of
the Griqualand West diamond fields and
Matabeleland.
He knows that with the advent of Brit
ish rule, British laws would prevail, and
that it would take him and his rich CO.
conspirators but short time to own the
gold fields. Let any American citizen
read the following oath, taken by PreSi-
dent Kruger and all the more prominent
Beers previous to the war of 1881, and
then champion the British cause, and l
will show you man unworthy of the
protection the Stars and Stripes affords
him:
"In the presence of Almighty God, the
searcher of hearts, and praying for His
gracious assistance and mercy, we, bur-
ghers of the South African republic, have
soiemnly agreed, for us and for our chill
dren, to unite in a holy covenant, which
we confirm with a solemn oath. 1t is now
forty years ago since our fathers left the
Cape Colony to become a free and indie
pendent people. These forty years were
forty years of sorrow and suffering We
have founded Natal, the Orange Free
State and the South African republic, and
three times has the English government
trampIed upon our liberty. Our flag, bap-
tised with the blood and tears of our
fathers, has been pulled down AS by Il
thief in the night, has our republic been
stolen from us. We cannot suffer this,
and we may not. 1t Is the will of God
thar the unity of our fathers and our love
to our children should oblige us to deliver
unto our children. unblemished, the heri-
tage OF our fathers. 1t is for this reason
that we here unite, and give each other
the hand as men and brethren, solemnly
promising to be faithful to our country
and people, and looking unto God, to work
together unto death for the restoration
of the liberty of our republic. So truly
help US, God Almighty
While / sincerely sympathize with the
British soldiers, whose only duty is to
obey, and with the widows and orphans
of the officers and men. whose lives have
beer sacrificed upon the altar OF an I'M
just cause. l have nothing but QOndemna-
ton for a government that pdces COM
merce before the rights of men, and tend
ers its services to a body of INSCRIPTIONS
capitalists whose only object is the sub
jugation of free republic, that they
may plumber It's domain. Yours for life
and liberty Louis Nash
AIS Fuller street.