Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-11-29
NO MERE PARADE
TO BOER CAPITAL
Work Is Ever So Much Harder
Than War Party Expected.
FILE PROTEST WITH U. s.
riiibu.,rr Expeditions Drippings oi
News from the troni soers to
s,rik. u u-n,y uiow.

New York. Nov. 20 -Andrcw Carnc-
glc discussing the Transyaal question
In the North American Review Tor De.
ccmbcr. published to-day, asserts that
che nocrs as the morr prolific race aud
10 the nbsoncc ~ N inrro nflush imml-
gfuton. viii Inevitably dominate the
future NJ South Afri.a. though Eng
lands forces whip thrm. -ur thn time
being. into "a nominal auhicction. lie
a1ya.
"rhe policy adopted IL that NJ fore
ing the issue. raising "a racial war aud
supprcsslng Dutch aspirations This
policy was attractive when IL was bc.
llcFvi that the merv decision tu send
fun army corps Of 3'.up men a. sup.
rlcmcnt the British forces IN South
Afrivu would 80 appall thr Dutch slc-
m0ut that II would mover raise ringer
In The face Of such tremendous forces
against them. feeling that u would be-
madness To- do ~. This was ths belief
prevalent In England. u was reported
that the new general In chief assured
her majesty when he took his departure
that tho tiritiah liar would wave over
Pretoria by Christmas.
Warnings were not wanting that
the conflict mirht not b. restricted 10
the Tunsyunl republic n tho race Issue
were the cry and that the Orange Free
State republic. which IL Dutch 60 the
core. might iuin forces with her neigh.
Dor. that thousands ~ lighting men
from the CAPS Colony. nlau uverwheim.
inrly Dutch, might flock Co the Dutch
standard were the race questions
pressed home.
The war party took no heed "
such dangers, and thu able lrituna
who. knowing the situation. saw these
possibilities. were only rhuked FOR
their baHelcss fears. II was believed
by most that II would b. "a mere parade
To the lincr capital. Attention was
everywhere called To the fact that no
such Htuppndpua force ever left the
shores Of England. This was not the
opinion ~ the party who ruunsollcd the
continuance ~ Mr. Glndstono's pacific
policy
"Thcre. ~ II has since been proved.
knew the situation. What they feared
has come Co pass. To-day second
army corps Of $4,000 ~ already found
necessary ana ia soon Ia sail. Great
Britain thus dcnuding herself " prop
err resvrvrH and laying London open
Ms French critic has recently said. To-
an attack by "A few thousand men
IT u not to be parade a. expected;
quite the reverse. This racial dispute
promises 10 prove ~ snyetr strain up.
on lirltaln ~ the Crlmcnn sar. ana
! Lord sullrhury's successor may say 81
| %. ~ DO has recently said - that war.
that it wns one In which britain nut
| IT, money upun the wrong horse That
the resources Of Great britain. N fully
drawn upon. can ultimately uycrpoW.r
the dutch Temporarily need no, be
questioned, but whether the end at
nined can Justify the sacrifice seems
uuNn 10 question.
ut does not appear 10 the writer
that it can possibly do ~. because the
suppression ~ the Dutch element to-
day. n such BE- the result. will accom-
plish nothing permanent, II the Eitun-
ton IL 90 rrmuln ns before described
ana the Dutch ARE 20 remain In South
Africa ne Residents and Increase rap
ldly, being a very prolific race, and the
British are not 10 Cmigrate to South
Africa In great number. and also settle
there and incruase The result must
Inevitably be that the Dutch will ha
In majority, growing constantly
Hrvnlrr Even more important than
this n the fact that the people born In
Africa must more and more d"slrv to
rule themselves. n VIII be found very
hard 10 drive out ~ the mind ~ in
Alexander whether III British OF Dutch
extraction. the idcn that the country
belongs 10 those who arc born ln a.
The native born must inevitably draw
together and become one race, nrm
afulnst any foreign race,
should Hrtuin cndeavor to hold
sway In South Africa through FRYE In
stitutluns- government, FOR In
stance. as Canada and Australia. have
then the parliament becomes ART
kandcr nH that ~ Gaze Colony now H.
as the parliament N Canadn IL Cana
dian. and the parliament OF Australia
IN Austraiinn-wlth the difference that
In Canada and Australia tho people
have no cause 60 be- opposed to Britain
and there IA no racial question involved.
People living In canada and Australia
have not been crushed by foreign
power ~ different rncc from beyond the
sea, which assumes 10 dominate them"