The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-10-31
Is 1T A JUST WAR?

Mr.. Chamberlain, Colonial Secretary,
said in the British House of Commons,
>thatthe government would protect Brit
ish subjects, wherever they reside, and
that the demands made by it upon the
Transvaal Government were for that
purpose. The Beers have voluntarily
admitted, even encouraged the British
and other foreigners to bring their
capital to the Transvaal, reside there
and educate their children there. They
have invited foreigners to settle as the
Kings and Chiefs of Hawaii invited
foreigners to settle in these Islands.
But, in these later days, it must be
accepted as a political maxim, that an
intelligent person, possessing also good
cipate in the government of the coun-
try in which he resides. There are of
course some qualifications upon this
proposition, and the weak point in it,
theoretically, is that there is practi-
cally no impartial arbitrator to be
found, who can adjust the rights of the
parties.
The Beers, for their own gain and
profit, have admitted Outlanders to
their territory, until these foreigners
outnumber the Beers, and are super
iOr to them in brains, education, and
wealth. When these resident for
eigners ask to be allowed some poll
tical rights which will protect them
against Boer eXtortion it is refused.
The Outlanders, following the example
of the Americans who engaged in the
Revolutionary war, protested against
taxation without representation. For
tunately, there is a powerful friend
and protection behind them, who is sell
fishly interested in good government
IN all parts of the world, because good
government in any part of the world
means increased trade, increased
wealth, increased demand for British
goods. The American Revolutionists
found a powerful ally in the French
nation.
And there cannot be good govern
ment in South Africa, If the Beers
examinations against respectable for
eigners.
The United States are deeply con-
cerned in the future government of
be found in the future, large popula-
ton of intelligent people who will fur
n:sh a vast trade with the United
States. The British are now fighting
to establish an order of things, which
will secure to the American people
commercial rights throughout Africa.
The British. whenever they establish
good government, and open up trade.
do not, like all other nations, the
American included, keep it to them
selves and forbid competition. So that
the present movement of the British
towards subduing the Beers, is one
that is in the interests of the commerce
of the world, and the United States
will be among the first to take adj
vantage of the sacrifice of blood and
money which the British are about &c
make.
The spectacle is indeed a strange one
at the present hour. The American
branch of the Anglo-Saxon race is
gathering $4,000 fighting men in the
Philippines, simply and only in the in
terests of universal law and order. Al
the same time, the British branch OF
the Anglo Saxon race is massing the
same number of men in South Africa
for the purpose of establishing once fol
all time, the real principles of demo
cracy. Although it is said that both
nations are purely mercenary in these
movements, and are utterly disregard
ing the rights of the weaker races, the
verdict of history will be. that these
wars were only incidents in the marcf
.Of great race through the wilderness:
of misrule and ignorance towards tht
establishment of universal law.