The Portland daily press., 1899-09-29

n hurry call ordering them to proceed to
the Cape and they win start tomorrow.
The secretary of state for tho colonies,
Mr.. Joseph Cham berlain, arrived at the
foreign ctfice this afternoon. The oabi-
net council win meet at l. 90 .. IN. tomor-
row.
The Speaker Of the House Of Commons,
MIR. Gully, Is retpruing 70 London, and
Sir Henry Campbell Zimmerman, the
Liberal leader In the House, and Mr.. Her.
bart Gladstone, the chief Liberal whip,
viii arrive here Monday.
The Daily Chronicle says:
ave understand on the best authority
that the delay attending the Boer rely is
due 20 hopes still entertained by the
Transvasl Of q peaceful settlement. The
Beers distrush Mr.. Cham berlain. They
fear that II they make concessions he will
only increase his demands. Therefore,
they have been trying to approach Lord
Salisbury directly. They trust the pre-
inter- as much IS they distsust the coloni-
al tsry nd II Lord Salisbury would
give pledg that the golden bridge was
meant seriously they would venture upon
1t. We regret to say that this last dssper-
ate effort has broken down, since Lord
Salisbury cannot go behind MIR. Cham
berlain without creating cabinet crisis
1t is deplorabls, nevertheless, that
state etiquette should be strong enough
30 obstruct the path to peace. We hope
1t Is not true that Mr.. Chamberlain in
tends to demand disarmament, u heavy
indemnify and the withdrawal Of DR..
4Loyds. which could only result In war.
The paper suggests that the Orange
Free Stats should appeal for arbitratio
under the arrangement concluded at The
Hague.
The press association issues the follow
ing statement this evening:
We lsarn that the centres Of interest in
the 1ranssaal crisis are in reality at Lis
bon and Berlin and this consideration 1t
is thought in SONS quarters may cause =
further adjournment of the cabinet.
The future administration and finan-
cial control of the Portuguese possessions
in South Africa are held to be an integral
factor in the present. difficulty. The
friends of President Kruger urge that IL
would be manifestly unfair to insist
upon a Partial reduction of the forts az
Pretoria and johannesburg SO long Us
Lorenzo Marques remains under the
Portuguese government and it is probable
that the negotiations between London,
Berlin and Lisbon may not be concluded
until after the cabinet council
The Pretoria correspondent of the
Daily Telegraph says:
''The Transvaal executive are absorbed
in war preparations. Many Beers oppose
aggressive action. on religious grounds.
s'There have been local thunder-storms
and rains at Johannesburg and In vari-
GUS parts of the Orange Free state"
The Odessa correspondent of the Stand
ard telegraphs a rumor that Germany
recently suggested TO Russia the advisa-
bility Of mediation between Great Britain
and Transvaal and that Russia declined
to have anything to do with the matter.
RUDYARD KIPLING'S POEM.
London. September e9.-The Times
applies to President Kruger and the crisis
in South Africa a spirited poem by Mr..
Rudyard Kipling, published in its col.
umns today. AIR. Kipling, describing an
old despotic king as
"Sloven, sullen, savage, secret, uncon.
trollsd
Laying on new land evil Of the old
concludes the poem as follows:
"All the right they promise, all the
wrong they bring
Stewards OF the Judgment, suffer not this
king"
The following stanzas are part Of Mr..
Kipling's poem which win appear In
"MoClure's Magazine In full:
Copyright. 1899. by Rudyard KiplinR. }
All we have. of freedom-ali we use or
This our fathers bought for us. long and
long ago.
Ancient right unnoticed as the breath we
draw
Leave TO die by no mans leave, under
meath the law.
SO they bought us freedom-not at little
cost
Wherefore must we watch the king lest
our game be lost
Over all things certain, this Is sure in
deed,
Suffer not the old king, for we know the
breed.
How so great their clamor, whatso'e r
their claim
Suffer not the old king under.any name
Here II naught unprosen--here IS naught
20 learn.
1t is written what shall. II the king re.
III.
Cruel in the shadow, crafty in the sun,
Far beyond his borders shall his teach
ings run
Siovsn. sullen, savage. secret. -unoon-
trollad
Laying on q new land evil Of the old.
Here is naught unproven, here Is moth.
ing hid,
Step for step and word for word--so the
old kings did
Step by step and word by word, who lie
ruled may read,
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