Evening journal., 1899-10-07

nallou PROMISED ANA't iAN' -N~+-
moment however was forthcoming, y
and new measures Of repression were
adopted. The English-speallng chill f
dren In the schools were allowed to e
study foreign languages for four hours u
out ofthe twenty-five inthe schoolwcek, lc
and as one Of the foreign languages J
were permitted to choose their own. q
johannesburg received a municipal
government in which the 25,50S Out L
lander electors were forced to choose {
city councillors out of the 1,039 Boer
electors. Outlanders who were in this
great majority not being eligible to the
office. The burgomaster or president
of this council, was to be nominated By
the government at Pretoria The
passed an act allowing the
president to exclude any alien immi-
grants whom he chose, to expel any
alien residents whom he saw flt and
to suppress all newspapers at his dis
cretion. The immigration act was re-
lpealed at the instance of the British
government The others remain, in ad-
dition to the grievances Of 1895.
The government has desired the Out
landers to attain all the Transyaal citi-
zenship that there is, considering,
doubtless, that under the terms Of the
convention of 1884. placing foreign re-
lations under British control, it cannot
be much.
For over a year President Kruger
kept the commissioner at arms length,
the condition of the Outlanders mean
thine growing worse through such per-
lsecutions as the breaking up Of theirau
thorized meetings by mobs led by Boer
lpolice officers At length President
lsteyn. Of the Orange Free State, and
lMr. Hofmeyr, of the Afrikander Bund,
who dreaded the results OF further
lpostponement of settlement, per-
lsuaded Mr.. Kruger to meet Sir Alfred
lNilner at the capital of the Orange
Free State, There the British pro-
posals on the Outlanders' behalf were
formulated as follows:
That the full franchise should be
I given to every foreigner who (a) had
been resident for five years in the re-
t public; OBJ declared his intention to
reside permanently; (c) took an oath
ito obey the laws, undertake all obli-
d cations of citizenship, and defend in
dependence Of country; franchise to be
lconhned to persons Of good character
possessing a certain amount of prop
= erty or income; finally some increase
OF seats in districts where the Out
p landers principally reside; the number
= of these was a matter for discussion
: but it was essential that they should
p not be so few as to leave the repre-
sentatives of the new constituencies fl
a contemplate minority.
The statement is often made, gener
l. lally by writer's who are desirous o
1t putting Great Britain in the wrong an,
'. of exhibiting the Beers in the guise o.
: brave and high-minded patriots en-
dlgaged in maintaining their independ
lie enee against desperate odds, that thu
/, only point at issue between Mr.. Cham
: berlain and President Kruger is tn
le length Of the probationary period upoi
rs which the grant Of the franchise is u
% be conditioned, that the Boer govern
IA ment wants to fix it at seven years
th whereas Mr.. Chamberlain is insistln
d. upon fve-year term.
al 1t is not a fair, it is a totally falls
y and disingenuous presentation Of tn
is pending controversy. The British gov
o. ernment has not objected to the seven
no year period. Although regarding it a
ny ny unnecessarily extended, # has bee
a willing to accept it for the sake
les peace
s- The territory known as the Transval
y was settled by the Beers in the laf
flforties, and its independence was rel
ognized by Great Britain in 1852 ]
tollS77 the country was again annexed I
he the British, and in 1880 the Beers b
si- gan another armed struggle for ind
.he pendence. It resulted in a compromis
ars Their independence in their intern
to affairs was admitted. while her ma
be esty's government reserved TO it's,
control Of the foreign relations Of Il
lse, new republic. II also stipulated th
Iut- all residents OF the Transvaal shou
49, have equal political rights.
lost Since 1881, when the independence
its the Boer republic was recognized, t
Tith franchise laws have been amended !
vi peatedly and always for the purpose
can excluding all but the Beers from pa
mu ucipating in public affairs. In 1882
In was ordered that strangers should n
'aad vote unless they had been register
iger for five years and had paid fee
'ad- Sl25. In 1887 the registration peri
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