Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-10-13

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power, and no man shall deny II.
Such IL the position Of the British
government at the present moment, az
frankly expressed by one OF Its sup
porters, and the statement Is perfectly
fair to the imperialists. Mr.. Harrison's
way Of putting 1t, however, Is somewhat
different, as witness the following from
his address to the prime minister:
Measured by the compromises
with foreign nations which you may
justly claim to have brought to
successful issue. the concessions al
ready accepted by the republic are
indeed decisive From nine years
to seven years, from seven to five
years, from one demand of the uit-
landers to another, the Beers have
given way. They have already
conceded the whole of the original
demand made on them and have
even added more And at every
fresh concession Sir Alfred Miner
is instructed to make further de-
mands, until throughout the Trans
.vaal, and we may we'll add at home.
the impression prevails that 1t is
not concession of claims which il
sought from the republic, but sub
mission, humiliation, and loss of in
dependence. Is this how negotia-
lions have been carried on, when
you, my lord, as head of the for
eign Office have dealt with Russia,
Turkey, France or the United
States? This is not negotiation. 1t
is war-war of naked aggression;
war wherein the Beers will not yield
without desperate struggle and
bloody combats; war which can
not be closed by few victories nor
the traces of 1t wiped out by few
promises or proclamations: a war
wherein many true and patriotic
Englishmen devoutly trust that the
Beers may not be ultimately
crushed.
THE FRANCHISE QUESTION PER
Sc.
The assertion that the naturaliza-
ton conditions are a severe hardship
to Englishmen in the Transvaal would
be amusing il it were not being used
as pretext upon which to force war
of conquest. There are undoubtedly
many Englishmen who have been at
tracted to Johannesburg and the gold
mines. But for moment suppose that
these Englishmen are eager in good
faith to renounce the privileges of Brit
ish citizenship In order to be able to
say that they have no country except
the Trapsvaal. The simple fact is that
these Englishmen, like those who for
temporary commercial purposes have
ov,t ,f n
outside the British empire, value their
birthright as Englishmen above almost
everything else in the world; and no
conditions of naturalization. however
easy. could possibly induce them to re-
nounce the queen and swear allegiance
to the South African republic in good
faith. Ii they went through such
naturalization process 1t would be for
the purpose of swapping the Beers and
delivering the country over TO England.
1t is rather too much to expect that
this, as delicate policy on the part
of the uitlanders, could be counte-
nanced and aided by the Boer citizens
of the Transvaal who really prize their
independent position. II is very much
as If the United States should insist
upon, let us say, six months natural
ization arrangement in Canada, and we
should then flock across the border in
great numbers, with view of bring
ing about change in the balance OF
/ the population for the sake of forcing
annexation. The Canadian dominion
would prefer to efface itself in some
other way rather than by opening the
gates to the Greeks in that fashion
Even If the terms of naturalization
have been burdensome in the Trans
wall, great number of men have in
recent years actually registered them
selves under process analogous u
| what we call taking out first papers
but Englishmen have been conspicuous
\ for their failure to take such initia
steps. In that regard Englishmen are
Hike Americans. They may go 10 fal
countries to reside for purposes OF
/ business advantage, but they are e8-
Eceedingly slow to change their allegi
iance. 1t cannot be too emphaticall,
said that the destiny of the Transvaal
as of all adjacent regions, Is British
and that II cannot we'll be otherwise
4 But it ought to be possible TO brint
about annexation III due time through
measures honorable to everybody con
Il 1tIIled. AS " lIit tCtQdI llcSOlldtlOu
on the franchise question Mr.. harr
sons summing up shows the facts
THE JOHN BULL" POINT OF
VIEW.
One must be careful not to be who'll,
unjust to a certain part of the senti
ment in England against Presiden
Kruger, for 1t is not by any means tru
4 that the great bulk of Englishmen wh'
support the Chamberlain policy ar
4 conscious of playing into the hands o
the spectators and stock -jobbers VIII
4 promoted the Jameson raid and VIII
are now trying TO accomplish their end
in a different way. The average Eng
s. lish citizen, whom we may call tn
typical John Bull Englishman. see
4 the condition of things in Cape Colon,
i where both races have equal rights an
do we'll under the sovereign auspice
& of the British empire. He has been mis-
/ led into believing that the theoretica
array of grievances that the uitlander
at Johannesburg have set up repre-
sents some sort of practical cruelty an
hardship. He perceves. furtherinor.
the retrogressiye character of the Boer
land their government, thinks that Eng
j lish control of the Transvaal would b
good for everybody, and Is tired of pre-
!, ltracted discussion and unstable equilit