The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-29

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in the SDanish-American War.
The opening of hostihties between
| England and the South African Fepub-
lie marks the beginning of the last act
of the drama which has been playing
in Africa for fifty years. Beginning
with the innocent explorations of Mum
go Park and the missionary labors of
David Livingston, the influence of
| England has been slowly extended over
! Africa by every means possible to mod
ern utilitarianism. Spoke and Grand,
tracing out forty years ago the sources
of the Nile: Sir Samuel Baker, solving
| the problem of the Mama: Gordon as
governor of the Soudan and Lord Gro
mer as the uncrowIled king of Egypt,
| have been forging, link by link the
| new chains which rivet the inhabitants
of unfortunate Africa to the ear of
progress
The modern policy of England is
strictly unitarian. British diplomacy
goes hand in hand with British agrees
sion. seeking a market for British man
ufaetures and commerce for England S
great merchant marine
The enormous riches of the gold and
diamond fields of the South African re-
PUBLIC nave WL&IGt%t lAAC ENEPN@"1N~ "
| British merchants. whose legitimate
African trade has been weakened by
French, German and Portuguese COM
petition. No student of history can
! forget that England guards the great
| continent of Australia. with its Won
derft1I gold fields, coal mines and sheep
| pastures upon exactly the same title
| possessed by the Boer in the occupa-
| ton Of the unused Transvaal and the
| IF the cOl6 and 0iA-
| norrd fields And it is convenient at
| this juncture for heT majesty's govern
| ment to boldly back up Cecil Rhodes
propect of pushing the Cape q Cairo
! railway through, regardless Of black
| enEd homes and seas of human blood.
The brutal and ineXcusable raid or
| Jameson finds its sequent in the deter
mined. aggressive policy. wmch mas
/ caused the Beers to strike the first
blow in a war forced upon them by
Id-hearted British aggression
Bibles Backed BY Bullets.
Whatever cause may embroil weak
| peoples with foreign nations, Englalld,
with it's irresistible fleet, is sure to find
lis snbere of influence extending so far
| as to derive territorial profit from the
! spfferings of the secondary nations and
| aborigines occupying the little avail
/ able stealable territory left upon the
earth. The British Bible is backed by
| the British bayones. and no other pol
/ icy than that of the interests OF the
! British pocket has directed the foreign
Office of England since steam carry 9
! became profitable. Old principles, Wise
n9axfrls and newly frightened moral
saws are always produced to justify
/ any profitable onslaught of England
| upon weaker peoples. The cold-hearCed
/ subjugation of Egypt in the last thirty
! wears has been brought about by a
secret policy determined upon many
| years ago. which has for its object the
| development of the entire unprotected
| areas left in darkest Africa.
| England's territorial aggrandlzeIlletlt
dates from the time of the great Ellz-
| abeth. Cabot, Drake and Frobisher
were pioneers in that exploration OF the
seas which forms the most honorable
| neriod of England's annals All tnat
| could be fairly acquired by Original us
| covery fell into the hands OF the BTU
! ish sovereign through these oold ndNl-
! gators. No publicist can attack Eng
lands title to the colonies successfully
! wrested from France and Spain in wars
not of her own seeking. But for INDIA,
/ Australia. the African possessions. ITS
| Chinese dependencies, and all OF Eng
| lands territorial acquisitions IN the
|. Victorian era, there is no apology put
| the lust of conquest and the greed OF
| gold. No gain has been too small no
| tribe. community or nation found too
weak. too touchingly helpless, 10 Ieel
i the nav of the British lion.
Bloody Aggression Ever.
It was mere self-interest which
caused Great Britain to champion
Turkey against Russia in the Crlfheah
var II was the desire to dominate IN
t,ovnt which dictated to England the
w-isfom of curbing great Mohammed Ali
land. later, grasping the reins of power
in E,gypt from the hands of the luxu-
rious Ishnael. British morality has
1yiaIded nliantly to an infamous loyalty
to Turkish interests demanded by the
treaty of Paris.
For years the voice of suffering Bul-
garians fell upon deaf ears IN an APP
peal for British interference. The hu-
n1anitarian policy which caused Eng
land to unite with France and RUSSIA
in the humiliation of the Turkish
fleet at Navarino was coldly changed
when the interests of midas vast en-
tire made it profitable to wink at
Turkish butcheries i'll Crete and the
continued desolation of Armenian
homes by the bloody Kurds. In VAN
the Greeks hurled themselves against
the Turks in their last unfortunate
blood and treasure to extfngufsh the
Turkish butcheries in Asia Minor. 1t
was an Irresistible fleet at Besika bay
which babe the ear of Russia pause
in his work of extirpating the Turkish
horror.
The policy of England in China since
the infamous days of the opium war
has been simply one Of cold aggression,
backed by a superior force. The Per-
4 = g
tons. have illustrated the Iapacity of
the British foreign policy and estab-
E1isbed the fact that only i'll impEegnable
Russia does England find an enemy
penetrating all her designs and ready
to meet her at any moment.
Her Course In South Africa.
AS to the policy of Great Britain in
| south Africa since the occupation of
| the Cane of Good Hope in 1906, the
| VARYING Kafffr wars, the struggle for
| Natal. and the temporary annexation
of the Orange Free State, the whole
| record is one of the extinction of Dutch
/ interests, and a cold disregard of the
| business of the innocent Boer popula-
| tfon. The discovery of the vast local
/ riches in gold and diamonds has sealed
the doom of the smaller South African
! states. At the outset of this bloody war
/ England has purchased fol herself a
strong place of arms in Delagoa bay
| from which to reach the heart of the
| Transvaal by a. 25o-nile line of march,
| instead of the 500 stretching out to the
!; Cape OF Good Hope. The payment OF a
score of millions for this naval base
while. peace negotiations with Presidents
| KIugers government were still sup
posed to be In progress. conclusively
proves the predetermination of England
| to extinguish all Boer sovereignty. re-
gardless of whatever concessions might
be made by a weak republic in the face