Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-29
CREED The MOTIVE FOR WAR
Story Of British Aggression in South Africa
Told by an AmeriC,n Officer
ENORMOUS COST OF THE STRUGGLE
Not the Wrongs of the Outlnnders'
Hut the Gold Mines and Rhodes
Railway the Cause of It.
Probable Duration.
NoRMoUS COST OF THE STRUGGLE


hut the Gold Mines aud Rhodes
Railway the Cause OF It
Probable Duration.
The opening OF hostilities between Eng
land and the South African Republic marks
the beginning Of the last act OF the drama
which has been playing in Africa for htty
wears Beginning with the innocent eN-
plorations of Mungo Park and the mission
airy labors OF David Livingstone, the IN
fuence of England has been slowly EXTENDED
over Africa by every means possible to MOD
ern utilitariansm. Spoke and Grant tracing
out forty years ago the sources OF the ME-
Sir Samuel Baker solving the problem OF the
Nyanza Gordon as governor OF the souuah
and Lord Cromer as the uncrowned king OF
Egypt have been forging, link by link the
new chains which rivet the inhabitants ot
unfortunate Africa to the car OF progress.
The modern policy OF England is strictly
utiltaran. British diplomacy goes hand in
hand with British aggression, seeking mar
| ket for British manufactures and commerce
| for Englands great merchant marine.
The enormous riches of the gold and
diamond fields of the South African Repub-
| lie have whetted the appetites OF British
| merchants, whose legitimate African trade
has been weakened by French German and
Portuguese competition. No student of his
| tory can forget that England guards the
| great continent of Australia, with its
wonderful gold fields, coal mines and sheep
pastures upon exactly the same title pos
| sessed by the Boer in the occupation OF the
unused Transvaal and the original discovery
| OF the gold and diamond fields. And 1t is
| convenient at this juncture for her majesty S
1 (NEni1 hnH HnC'
project of pushing the Cape to Cairo rail-
way through, regardless of blackened homes
and seas of human blood. The brutal and
inexcusable raid of Jameson finds its sequent
| in the determined, aggressive policy which
| has caused the Beers to strike the first blow
in war forced upon them by cold-hearted
| British aggression.
| Eiblcs Backed by Bullets.
Whatever cause may embroil weak peoplaz
| with foreign nations, England with its ir-
| resistible fleet is sure to find its sphere
of influence extending so far as to derive
territorial profit from the sufferings OF the
secondary nations and aborigines occupying
| the little available, stealabe territory lef
upon the earth. The British bible is
| backed by the British bayonet, and no other
policy than that of the interests CT the
Office OF England since steam carrying
became profitable. Old principles, wise max
inns, and newly frightened moral saws arr
! always produced to justify any profitable
onslaught of England upon weaker peoples
The cold hearted sIbjugation of Egypt IL
the last thirty years has been brough
about by a secret polly determined upor
many years ago, which has for its objec
the development Of the entire unprotected
areas left in darkest Africa.
| Englands territorial ACKNOWLEDGEMENT date
from the time Of the great Elizabe,
Cabot, Drake and Frobsher were pioneer
in that exploration of the seas which form
the most honorable period Of England's an
nails. All that could be fairly acquire
by original discovery fell into the hand
of the British sovereign through these boil
navigatorn. No publicist can attack Eng
lands titles to the colonies successful
| wrested from France and Spain in war
not Of her own seeking. But for India
Australia, the African possessions, its Chi
nese dependencies. and all OF England
territorial acquisitions in the Victorian era
there is no apology but the lust OF con
quest and the greed of gold. No gain ha
been too small no tribe, community O
, nation found tco weak, too touchingiy hep
, less, to feel the paw of the British lion
, Bloody Aggression, Ever.
} It was mere self-interest which cause
' Great Britain to champion Turkey agains
: Russia in the Crimean war. 1t was the de
. sire to dominate in Egypt which dictated
} England the wisdom of curbing great Mo
hammed Ali, and, later, grasping the rein
of power in Egypt from the hands of tn
r luxurious Ishmael. British morality ha
! yielded pliantly to an infamous loyalty t
' Turkish interests demanded by the treaty c
t Paris.
e For years the voice of suffering Bulgarian
) fell upon deaf ears in an appeal for Britis
e interference The humanitarian polio
y which caused England to unite with Franc
and Russia in the annihilation Of the Turks
e fleet at Navarino was coldly changed whe
I | the interests of India's vast empire made
s | profitable to wink at Turkish butcheries !
: Crete and the continued deaolation of AT
s mcnan homes by the bloody Kurds. |
o vain the Greeks hurled themselves agains
: the Turks in their last unfortunate war |
vain Russia poured forth its blood and treas
ure to eXtinguish the Turkish butcheres
=. Asia Minor. 1t was an irresistible heet
Besika bay which bade the czar of Russi
G | pause in his work Of extirpating the Turks
| horror.
n The policy OF England IN emma since III
q Infamous days of the opium war has bee
simply one OF cold aggression, backed by
a superior force. The Persian Afghanistan an
II Penj- Deb questions have illustrated tn
e rapacity of the British foreign policy and es
:, tablished the fact that only in impregnab
a Russia does England find an enemy pene
, trating all her designs and ready to met
= her at any moment.
J, Her Course in south Africa.
n AS to the policy OF Great Britain In sout
q Africa since the occupation of the Cape
e Good Hope in 1906. the varying Kaihr war
e the struggle for Natal, and the temporaI
q annexation of the Orange Free State. II
+ whole record is one of the extinction
= Dutch interests and cold disregard of II
); business of the innocent Boer population
ls The discovery of the vast local riches
n gold and diamonds has sealed the doom
1t the smaller South African states. Al II
y outset Of this bloody war England has pu
IT chased for herself strong place OF arms
lie Deiagoa bay from which TO reach the hea
ot OF the Transvaal by a 250-mile line OF marc
. hn. Tor