The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-25
SHIFTING THE ISSUE.

There are no new developments in the
Transvaal situation. except that war
seems less imminent than it did awhile
ago. With characteristic adroitness,
the willy old diplomat has met issue
with issue and distracted attention
from the complaints of the Outlanders
to boundary disputes which he desires
England to submit to international ar
bitration.
Dom Paul has agreed TO make import
ant and satisfactory concessions to the
English residents of the Transvaal on
condition that these boundary questions
are to be settled by an international
board of arbitration. This places Great
Britain in a most uncomfortable posi-
ton before the world, fer she does not
wish to surrender her reversionary
claims upon the republic, and she can
not we'll refuse to acknowledge the prin-
ciple of arbitration which she cham
pioned at The Hague. President Kru-
ger has made a statement to the world.
he has addressed a petition to the
queen, he has appealed to innate fair
ness of the English public, asking for
simple justice and nothing more He
has cited official documents to show
that in 1884 Great Britain renowned
its claim to suzerainty over the Trans
vaal republic. He has explained that
the Beers ask for impartial arbitration
OF all questions that cannot be ami
cably adjusted between the two ma
tons, on the basis of 'the treaties, con-
ventions and other written undertake
ings made between the republic and
Great Britain
The old man does not seem to realize
the exact nature of his offense He oc-
cupies valuable land. His people are
slow-going and old-fashioned. Their
premises enclose rich mineral deposits.
The Beers are fogies and tyrants, say
the busting representatives of a newer
civilization. And that is it It's an
other case OF the old man not only being
in the way. but getting querulous and
exaetine. He is prosperous and under
his guidance his people have prospered-
But they ere not up-to-date: they don't
want to come up-to-date, and that's
their offense.
and Adventures who have crowded into
the diggings during the last dozen
years. 1t is the impression of settlers
who are net Of the Beers. In the early
history of mining in the Transvaal the
miners were as well satisfied with the
treatment they received from the Boer
government as they could have been
with Great Britain. Ex-ConsuI Gorge
T. Hollis of Boston, who was stationed
at Cape Town for many years, reports
that such was the case. The change he
witnessed. and in an article prepared
for the eastern press, he describes it as
follows;
Then came the influx of representa-
tires Of large moneyed interests, ana the
feeling seemed to change, and at even
ing from every barroom one=-Would he
reminded that Britain ruled the vaves''
and -Brittons never would be slaves -
with a grand chorus OF '.D---n the Dutch-
man. The logical outcome of This fan
A 1871, about 1890. J. think when the fla p
OF the TranSvaal WAS hauled down from a
government staff and torn 10 bits and
treated with all indignity. war being only
arsrfed by the copi-headedness of the
officials OF the city. Other means of get
tjac possession OF the land failing. the
lingo and mining capitalist class Joined
hands Ia psracy and sried to steal the
whole country under the leadership of
Jameson, concerning Wnlch nokning more
franchise while retaining allegiance to the
British croHn.
Now. there isn't a'.s-,; :-.Ao ziss an