Omaha daily bee., 1899-09-21

Boston Globe: The burghers of the Orange
Free state have met and resolved to stand
shoulder to shoulder with the Beers in case
of any British attack on them. They are
prepared to assemble at a minutes notice.
There is nothing slow about these strong
siding champions of the Transvaal.
New York Sun: 1t is certain that the in
Fiction of the curse of war upon a feeble
state on the score of a slight deviation
from the change in its naturalization laws
demanded by MIR. Chamberlain would be
looked upon as an unconscionable and rep
rehensible deed by right-feeling and inter
ligent Americans, whose respect q far
sighted British statesman would wish to
retain.
Springfield Republican: Herbert Spencer
seldom appears nowadays in any public ca
pacity. His aversion to war is so great,
however, that he has written a letter de-
nouncing a war against the Beers. II re-
joice,' he says. that some among us think
that national honor is not being enhanced
by putting down the weak. No one can deny
that at the time of the Jameson raid the aim
OF the outlanders and raiders was to usurp
the Transvaal government"
Chicago Post: The prospects of peaceful
outcome are small. We have two brave and
stubborn nations face to face. On the one
side are the Boers-encouraged In their con-
idence by the fact that they have already
beaten the British twice. On the other are
a people who have conquered half the
known world from an insignificant island.
with two such forces in antagonism it is
not likely that there will be a composition
of differences after deiances have been ex-
changed.
Chicago Journal: Mr.. Morley hit off the
consistency of the British franchise de-
mands with great precision in a recent
speech. He said that under British statu-
tory law any Briton naturalized in the
Transvaal became an alien to the British
empire and that certain members of the
government proposed to go to war with the
Beers for refusing to ALLEVIATE British citi-
zens from their allegiance. The truthful
answer Mr.. Chamberlain might make to
that is, that he doesn't care a penny for
the franchise and is only using the subject
fer a blind. But Mr.. Chamberlain won't
make any such answer. When he gets to the
point where he has to disclose his real pur-
poses he and Rhodes will have to give I'D
the game.
Chicago Tribune: London Truth EXPOSES
the emptiness of Mr.. Chamberlain's 'euzer-
alnty' claim in the Transvaal. Originally
the Transvaal was independent, for the
Beers purposely migrated to a region in the
south African wilderness, where Great
Britain made no p~retense of any direct or
indirect claim on the land. Then a few
persons in the republic desired annexation
TO Great Britain and secured it in 1877 bv
underhanded methods. A majority of the
boers protested, and in 1881 they fell back
on armed resistance to regain their indie
pendence. Before Majuba Hill was fought
and won Mr.. Gladstone sent instructions to
suspend the hostilities on a basis of the &C
acknowledgement OF the injustice and treachery
tnat mad led to the annexation. The dis
patch reached the British commander after
the battle. He acted upon it, and Mr.. Glad
stone stuck to his policy of justice, in spite
OF the bitter Tory cutlery that arose then and
continues today over the ranking remem-
brance of Majuba Hill. To most minds It
Is one OF the noblest acts of Gladstone's ca
reer that he preferred to be Just in the face
of adverse circumstance.