The Anaconda standard., 1899-10-22
Briton and Boer Have Been
in Rivalry Since the Gen.
tury Began and They
Have Often Met.
WHERE KRUGER COMES IN
He Took Up the Transvaals 8 Cause
Years Ago and He Has Spent
Lifetime as Champion
of the Dutch.

The issue between the English and
the Beers is one as old as this century.
in many different forms, but always
with much the same ground of quarrel
@t the bottom it has reappeared with
each succeeding decade. Many times
the two peoples have met on the battle
field, and when war itself has not ex-
listed rumors of war between them have
been current.
Wherever the Englishman and the
fBoer have had their common interests
hn one territory strife has been sure to
>come, for the qualities and ideals aof
fhe two are widely dissimliar.
The great gold fields in the Transvaal
Hre the material, facts that have caused
fthe conditions for the struggle of to-
sday, for it is through them that Eng
lishman and Boer have been brought
Mogether. To-day the Beers claim to
lbe the lords of the Iransvaal country,
and they persist in regarding the for
reign settlers-the Uitlanders-as tenn
.porary residents without real rights.
ASharply opposed to this view stands
SEngland, whose many sons in Trans
ivaal land have their immense invest
ments in mines and machinery and de-
1nand a full share in the government.
president Krneer,s crv while the Eng
fisb AGAINST # shont. ..Fnl1 rights
:rivil and nolitical for our emierants
who settle in your land
History of the Strife.
The problem takes on many phases.
but not one Of them can be clearly un-
derstood without back reference to the
history of the relations of Beers and
tp,
over Inc dues.ioll u sovu,elsr.S. ,.ntia III
adnnitt;ner Poer indanandenca in local
affairs and Kruger is DENYING Eng
bands claim. such is the history Of
nhe two that each can fairly make its
claim
sovereisntv or no sovereisntv would
not however he a burning Guestion
was there not reason inst now Of in
sisting on if. The more practical state
ment of the issue is that If concerns
.the nolitical franchise rights which the
ITitlanders now find it SO difficult to
acollire. and which ENGLAND insists
so strongly they shall secure on reason
liable conditions. 1t is on account of
inability to- agree on the terms of the
franchise combined with views about
sovereignty which leave no middle
ground. that war is arising. but even
Ihe franchise is only an incident in
securing. what the Fnplish really want.
sir Alfred Miner. who has been the
foremost Enp1ish a gent in .nerotiations
with the Roers has said Thai he in
sisted on the franchise merely because
me thought it would help the JTitland-
- .a,,s to secure for themselves what they
mexd. and because he thought an agree
on,snt could be reached concerning if
moue easilv than concerninr the MANY
aefOrms in Boer laws. which are the
real objects to be attained for the bene-
ht of tho TTitlanders and tho real
s,coasions Of IrnpIand,s intervention.
MAIN "r'e'ahces s'a'e"'
Reaching thus the kernel of Eng
sands reasons for interference in the
TranSVaal, the main grievances of the
UitlanGers against Boer rule in the
Transvaal can be summed up in the
~ ,o"1I:S ueC,o - " d lIolis. ~ A.,
saxes Of the Transvaai Vet have no
saw as no how the money shall he
snsnt
Their children have to speak Dutch
An order to gain a nroner education
Johannesbnrs is wrerchedlv GOVERN
ed and is in n fearfulIv Iinsa nitarv
condition Tha ITitlandsrs have no
nower in nunicina1 rovarnnent
Their newsneners are aarped
They are not allowed to hold nublic
meetinss
Trial Nv iurv is turnaa ;nt, , foroa
The dynamite monono,v is an oh.
stacle ITO the industrial nroeress of
:Johannesburg
The president NAV, without trial ex-
mel anv JJjtlander from The TransvaaI
He controls the cables and can delav
messages,
The IJitlanders nav more nancy in
taxes than is spent in the aovarnment
of the Transyaal.
To add insult to injury, the 1-it1ander
has been disarmed and conDelind 70
nav for a fort erected TO terroriza hin,
This. then. has been the status in The
Transvaal The Roer caring only for
farming hunting and raIipion na,roH,