The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-11-07
NUMBER 80.

anu Oh bne mining INDUSTRY.
The mining laws there are the best
in the world, superior. to the mining
laws Of Canada, but when mines are
located on government lands certain
dues are paid, and rightly so. That is
a source Of revenue all countries SINH
larly situated avail themselves of. The
country is poor and the gold industry is
the only source of wealth to the peo-
pie, employing thousands of Kafiirs and
supports population estimated be-
tween 100,0 and 10000.
Slavery" You are in error that
slavery exists. Orphans Of the blacks
are adopted in families, and mind,
Christian families, till they are twenty
years old, and the government attends
to its strict enforcement, that is, they
become their own master at the period
stated. That this power is sometimes
abased may be true, but it is real
blessing to those neglected orphans, to
have home and Christian training.
A few orphans only are adopted in this
way, and it is not general in the Trans
vaal, but to make slavery of this shows
an animus that is beyond all reason and
fact.
In short, the Beers are people that
believe the Bible, they would die for
their God. They are like Cromwell's
Ironsides; they go praying into the
battle. They are pious, godly people.
They are not taught in the mannerism
of the world) which passes often for civ
ilization), but if love of their Bible,
love of their churches, family altar at
home, are not producers Of character
and the highest type of true civliza-
ton then have read all signs of this
world amiss. England with her pre-
tentions of civilization, bombarded Hong
Kong to force China to consume her
opium on which in India she has .
monopoly that nets her $50, ,O00, 900
year, debauching millions of people,
producing moral, physical and mental
wrecks, this by country that cries for
liberty and advancement, and decries
other nations, as the Pharisee did in
the temple.
| My final argument is that the Beers
wanted arbitration and that shey show
ed their sense of justice and their belief
in the right of their contentious. The
English refused arbitration, because
their might could enforce their desire,
and also because they feared an impair
tial investigation. Right will always
court investigation, but wrong will not
hear Of it, and might takes its place, if
possible. 1t is a simple case of grab, as
were the Kimberley diamond mines in
Orange Free State, under some pre-
tense or other. England would have
done the same in South America If
Grover Cleveland had not come out
with his sturdy Monroe doctrine. The
English concluded that discretion was
the better part of valor, knowing that
the resources of the United States were
equal to her own, and did not court .
foe worthy of her steel. The Transvaal
being small country and the rich gold
fields the objective point, all England
almost became warlike race. To fight
a pigmy in numbers reused tremendous
enthusiasm. The Kimberley diamond
mines were stolen on some trumped up
charge, from the Orange Free State;
and now some grievances are found to
steal country's best possessions. The
Lord above will help these heroic peo-
pie, who have still living, working
faith in God. A religious paper should
advocate arbitration as the essence of
Christ's teachings, in differences be-
tween governments. A religious paper
should also give the Beers impartial
Judgment, knowing that they are sturdy
believers and that their type as shown
in Holland in the thirty years war with
Spain, Cromwell with his Roundheads
and the Puritans in New England are
the true heroes of independence and en-
Ilightenment of the race, notwithstand-
ing the limitations which are found in
all the heroes Of the Puritan type. If
Christianity as practiced by the Puritan
TYPE, and by the Beers for centuries,
does not produce better and nobler
! type than you describe, then Christian
ity is failure. The limitations of these
people is due to their environment and
the British love of gold and conquest,
but a sturdier, independent, God-fear-
I people exists nowhere on this globe.
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