The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-12-19
BOERS ARE RIGHT
But English Will Eventually
Win in Africa,
GEORGE HORTON RETURNS
From a Trip of Six Years in
TranSVaaI and MatabeIe.

Mr.. George Horton. who has been IN
South Africa for six years, is visiting his
sister, Mrs. ]. c. Gibbens. at 413 south
Water. Mr.. Horton has considerable
property near Bulawayo, in Matabeie-
land. and expects TO return as soon as
the war is over between the Beers and
the British. He secuted for the British
during the Kafir rebellion in 1895 and
was pioneer Of Bulawayo, fonrishing
town of 5000 people. with railroads and
other modern facilities now He went
into the MatabeIe country with Dr. ia
mison and has been over great portions
Of South Africa with Cecil Rhodes.
To begin with. Mr.. Horton says that
South Africa will be the greatest country
on earth to go to when the war Is over.
Sneaking on the subject. he said to re-
porter for the Eagle yesterday;
There will be millions OF capital 60
into that colLtry, ten times more than
crA- before. and capital mas been eH-
tremely cage for investment there ior
ten years. You will see n DEVELOPMENT
and a p,t,.ftss such as no 9th G untrE
in the world ever saw. II has been an
easy matter r. finance any sort OF ie-
climate enterprise there for years. AFTER
the war Is over there will be rush. me
climate is good. and just as healtaful as
il Is anywhere. johannesburg. city Of
"a coo people. is high and dry and IN tee
center Of the richest gold country IN ne
world. a gold reef runs either way from
Johannesburg for miles and miles. The
town has electric lights, electric car
lines, fve-story buildings, morning and
evening papers. and every sort OF mod
ern improvements.
Asked as 10 the conditions OF c4Ttt'a-
ton In the Transvaal country a1d tho
cause Of the war, Mr.. Horton said:
THE proper Beers are just about Ike
a southwest Missourian or Ar6s nsawyer
twenty years ago, speaking Dutch instead
of English. They farm a little. herd
little and hunt a great deal, living nls'sc-
" on game They have been making
the franchise conditions as hard as they
dare in order to keep themselves In pow
er. They want to have things their own
| way, and above all they want 70 hang
on TO their language That's about all
| the trouble. The Beers have a right to
their language and TO determine their
own governmental affairs, to be sure,
and the English want their country. The
Beers patched up their laws till il takes
( ~ffs naT7
| this trouble came they offered TO make
| the term seven years and the outlanders
were satisfied with this, but the English
/ government didn't want a settlement
! They wanted the country. That's the
| real cause of this war. The Beers are
morally right. but It's there Like 1t is
| everywhere else in new counteries. The
English language and English enterprise
| crowd the old slow ways 70 the wall. In
some countries this has been done peace
| fully, but in many of which. South Al
RIGA being one. It has brought on war.
! Those Beers will fight hard and it will
/ take a long time TO whip them, but the
! British will eventually win. The war VIII
| not end efore next August, and proba-
| bly, not then. Every Boer boy who IS
| big enough TO carry a gun is gone % war
| and gone with his mothers blessing. Be-
| sides this. the Beers are assisted by hun
/ dreds Of military adventures. men from
/ every country on earth. II the Beers
| enlist the sympathy OF the old Cape
| country the war will not end for years.
! The young men will all go. A man who
/ has farm and other property in the
/ Cape country viii not 90 because II the
/ Beers lehould lose his property would be
| conascated. but all his boys who have
! nothing viii slip out and go. England
/ will have TO increase her army in the
! TransvaaI very materially before she
wins. but my opinion IS that the Beers
will be licked eventually. Dom Paul is
! the only man that ranks anywhere with
/ Cecil Rhodes in South Africa. Il TIE
/ British manage TO get Dom Paul out o.
/ the way Rhodes viii be king IN every
sense Of the word except a crown
Rhodes IL a great man but he is a
/ gorgeous monopolist. He thinks II the
Beers take Kimberley Rhodes Will die
/ there
Mr. Horton talked Interestingly % min
ING. ostrich anu Allr tsllA~a IN HI
I dus-ries Of South Africa He had the
claws q a lion which he had killed
mounted with gold BY 5eweler In Bula-
wayo He had also the shells q three
I ostrich eggs each measuring seventeen
/ inches around. One egg makes as much
/ as three men can eat He has also a
I number OF Photographic scszes from the
1 Mstabele country showing Ksfir homes.
+ the houses and streets of B8lawavo. the
/ Transvaal country. the streets ~ Johaa-
/ nesburE. etc. ard scenes on the Fan
/ 5esl river lie says the Victoria fails %
/ the Zambesi river are greater than Mag
/ ara and he has seen them both
/ Mr. Horton g wei informed about
every phase y south African lie and
/ has secuted wlzh Cecil Rhotes and Dr.
/ Jamison- The cost q trip from wich-
ia . johannesburg. as says IS about
/ tea