The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-12-11
OPPOSITION TO ENGLAND.

Professor Vambery on the Causes thai
 Turned Europe Against Her.
 Professor Vambery publishes an inter
 esting article in the "Pester Lloyd' and
 the causes of the antipathy to England
 and the English in connection with the
 present war. In his opinion this anti ] pathy is due in the main to the envy
 and spite excited among her rivals by
 the extraordinary prosperity, power and
 prestige of the British Empire. The ! true motives of English policy are will fully ignored, and England is accused
 of an ungovernable land hunger and j blind covetousness. The civlizing in-
 fiuences of the British flag all over the
 globe is denied, and England is repre-
 scented as an oppressor of liberty and
 justice. Her sole motives are alleged
 to self-seeking and lust of power. Even
 autocratic and despotic Governments,
 such as that of Russia. characterize the
 English administration as arbitrary,
 predatory and tyrannical. Although the
 English people pay very little heed to
 all this calumny, it remains an injus-
 tice, and Professor Vambery considers it the duty of those whose office it is to inform the public mind to give plain and impartial account of the facts
 He then proceeds to defend England and MT. Chamberlain against the charge of unjnstly attacking the Transvaal, and of desiring to destroy the poor, pi- ous and patriarchally innocent Boer people. Under existing circumstances England could not feel secure in pursu- ing her far reaching African policy, as the two republics, imbedded in her pos sessions, unmistakably gravitated be- yond her frontiers and deslred to weak en her position while seeking support from great Powers which were not par ticularly well disposed to her. As no other nation and no other State is equally capable of carrying into execu- tion the great work which awaits Eng land in South Africa, and particularly the Cape to Cairo railway. Professor Vambery deprecates, in the interests of civilization and of the prosperity of whole continent, the distrust and mis- construction with which her efforts are being followed.
 Turning to the Boers, Professor Vam- bery contends that the gold fields of the Transvaal have produced a great change in their life and character, and have engendered among them the same vices with which Europe is afflicted. President Kruger, who, with his G7010 per annum, continues to confine his hos- pitality toward visitors to cup of coffee and a pipe, may still appear to play the part of simple citizen. It is, fact that he likes "dab- bling in high politics, and ie not for eign to many speculative enterprises. The Boers' vaunted love of liberty has still further degenerated. He who prizes his own fredom should respect that of others. Yet the Outlanders, in spite of the heavy taxation imposed up on them and the punctual performance of their duties as citizens, are treated | as pariahs. Was it to be expected that | England which rules one-fifth part of | the surface of the globe, and which | spent G13,000,000 on war with Abys- sinia for the sake of one missionary, | would abandon a hundred thousand of | her people to the tyranny of the Boers? | That was impossible, and consequently war was inevitable. War will, in the opinion of Professor Vambery, be con- 1ucted to victorious end. Whoever inn partially considers the conflict must, he | says, moderate his hostility toward { Great Britain. No country in the world S so opposed to war as England, and when she is obliged to take up arms it ,an only be under the pressure of the most urgent necessity.-Vienna Corres- of The London Times.