The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-02

'In what respect does the
Orange Free State differ from
the Republic presided over by
Kruger"
He says in no respect, and
hence all the uproar. The Orange
Free State is an Independent re-
public; he says his South African
state is an independent republic,
and has been since 1884. That is
why he has objected to Chamber
lain's claim of right on the part of
England to compel a change in it's
electoral law. Chamberlain in
sists that Kruger is darkening
the issue; that England is endeav-
oring to compel the Republic to
keep the engagement as to voting
and of representation into which
the Republic entered with her in
1884.
"What is Transvaal, and why
so called?"
If you have a map large enough
to show it, look for the Orange or
Gariep river, which forms the
northern boundary of Cape Col
ony, and tracing it eastwardly
from where it pours into the At
lantic, you find it forming the
southern boundary of the Orange
Free State, while what the map
makes a branch of it comes in
from the northeast and forms the
northern and eastern boundary
of the state. 1t lies between riv-
ers very much as Pittsburg does.
The northern one, corresponding
to the Allegheny is the Vaal.
Now, let us go back a bit. When
Holland was overrun by the
French revolutionists, the Prince
of Orange, fugitive in England,
turned the Dutch South African
possessions over to her to keep
them from falling into the hands
of the French, but they did not
finally become English until 1906.
The Dutch had established sla-
very in them; the English abol-
ished it, for which and other rea-
sons the Dutch declared that they
did not care to live under English
rule. In 1886 they bought tract
from the'Zulus, and ON that set
up government of their own, but
the English after a while conclud-
ed not to permit any independent
governments in South Africa.
There was q sharp contest, and
when it ended this Dutch govern
ment was the English province of
Natal. Disguised Dutchmen
then pressed eastward into the
wilds, and founded the Orange
Free State. That was in 1913,
perhaps; five years later that
state went the way of Natal, but
the Beers were so intolerably OBJ
streperous that in 1852 the Eng
lish gave them their freedom to
be rid of them. Meantime, how
ever, disguested Dutch again
went into the wilds, which is to
say, they crossed the Vaal and
proceeded to set up republic.
Trans means across; when the
Transvaal was referred to the
reference was understood to be
to that part of the wilderness oc-
cupied' by the Dutch who would
not remain under English law in
the Orange Free State. Trans
vaal is used anonymously with
South African Republic, the offic-
ial title of the government beyond
the Vaal.
"When did suzerainty exist be-
tween England and the Beers,
and is it broken now"
This question has been answer
ed in part in the preceding par
agraph. In part it cannot be an
swered until the present bicker-
ing is terminated. Suzerainty
implies much or little according
to the interest of those who have
the interpreting it. Itconveys
the notion of the superiority of
one state over another; the SUI
periority Of England over the
South African Republic consists
in the fact that the republic can
not conclude a treaty with any