Austin's Hawaiian weekly. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1899-190?, 1899-11-11

10 appear almost equally TO the average
American. Whatever the cry against
viewed purely in the light O progress, the
Beers have been a stumbling block, and
have persistently endeavored accrue all
the advantages of British capital without,
in the case of taxpayers and resident
foreigners giving the slightest gMid PRO que.
Americans as well as English have come
under the l." Ban of the Boer''
Quoting from the Literary DIGEST:
In Boerdom the of justice entirely the
mercy of the President who not long since removed the
highest judges, because they would decide according
to his pleasure. When the independence of the Trans
vaa conceded in 1884, expressly convenanted put
all foreigners entering the Trasvaa upon equal footing
with the Beers themselves in every respect except the right
of suffrage So lar from doing this the Beers have pur.
posey arranged taxation that nine tenths of shall be
paid by foreigners; they have taxed foreigners heavily
support schools in which the Dutch language exclusively
used; they have insisted that private schools main.
Dutch equal footing with Englsh they have main.
tanned government so corrupt that according to the
statement OF an American newsp per friendly to the Beers
ten years, although doing business; they have main
tanned a monopoly in dynamite, indispensable nstru.
ment in mining in the profits of which President Kruger
has largely shared they have kept towns built exclusively
by foreigners, under exclusive Boer control, and have
refused to permit decent sanitation thereby doubling the
death they have prohibited Americans and English,
men from holding public meetings; they have denied to
them even the right of pettion they have removed their
supreme from Office simply because its decisions
rendered small Justice to oreg ers; and they have
prohibited any Engshman American from carrying
arms of any kind while furnishing every Boer boy OF
sixteen years of age rifle and revolver and surrounding
Johannesburg with krupp guns, the entire of which
has been taken of the pockets of Englshmen and
Americans
Futile and repeated appeals to the Boer
Government have resulted in the present
war. This is, of course, the case from the
British side.
Whether the Beers view of the question
counterbalances the above facts is matter
for the Nation to decide.
America S opinion is naturally an impor-
tant issue. 1t will be the only absolutely
unbiased judgment possible. The positions
taken by the European Powers are plainly
swayed by diplomatic motives. Of the two
powers favorable to Britain, Germany and
Italy, German reasons for non-intervention
are specifically plain. The French and
Russian satisfaction over British reverses
are as easily explained as that of Belgium
and Austria. Aside from the mere fact of
rejoicing over the reverses of any danger
Gus factor in the ring of the powers, Rus
STA and France especially, have old wounds
that have never lost their smart.
The firm stand taken by Mckinley as to
non-mediaton in the Transvaal, apart from
it's showing the trend of the Governments
reminder that from a strictly legal point of
view the question of mediation in the
Transvaal is parallel to our own situation
in the Philippines. The substance of the
dispute is the status of the Transvaal, as
the Philippines, whether the two republics
are to be recognized as sovereign inter-
national states.''
Putting aside the merits of the indi-
vidual cases, this is the point of view and
view the question in this light.
Any attempt at mediation on the part of