Arizona republican., 1899-10-19
PhUNlx. OCTOBER re. 1899.
The beginning of the war in South
Africa has called forth many protests

The beginning of the war in South
Africa has called forth many protests
against the policy of
THE Great Britain. But are
BOER these protests just? We
FOLLY. think not. There are
occasions when a pig
my has to be sat upon in order to
make it realize its true place The
pigmy has it's own rights, but it must,
in order to exercise those rights, admit
that others have rights as we'll. That
is what Spain refused to do one year
or more ago, and the world knows the
result That is what the Transvaal
has refused to do, hence the trouble
now at hand. The Brooklyn Eagle
this compact way:
The richest Boer in the TransvaaI is
the president himself. His rule is as
absolute as that of the car of Russia.
He is an anachronism. He is at the
head of privileged class. This class
is small minority. Every law that
goes upon the Boer statute books is
drawn with reference to it's privileges
and with the purpose of perpetuating
them Every law is drawn to the det-
riment of three out of every four white
residents of the Transvaal Boer birth
Is patent of nobility. To be other
than a Boer in the Transvaa1 is to be
crowded to the wall and kept there.
The story, of the dictatorial and obsti-
nate old man. who grows more over
bearing and impatient with the years,
has been told in full. For the children
of this patriarch, this impossibility,
there is nothing too good; for the off |
spring of others, white though they
be. there is nothing too bad. And the
blood of the blacks reddens the story |
from beginning to end-a story which |
would be incomplete without the crack |
of the saturated lash.
There is freedom in the Transvaal, |
but it is freedom for the few and OPP
preston for the many. Rights are re-
spected in the Transvaal, but they are /
rights the roots of which are buried /
deep in wrongs white men cure rather
than endure. If sympathy must be
expressed, let it go to the mark. OPP
preston, barbarity, tyranny are no
target for it. We are only little
Older than the war with Spain and we
waged that war. 1t was fight against
oppression, barbarity and tyranny. The
H8nC on the nanQS OF England now IS
of the same brand. 1t is the cause of
culture and progress against me-
dievalism, crudity. prejudice and
fanaticism. 1t is a fight against the
ertrenchment of the few at the ex-
pense Of the many. It is a fight not
against, but for the people of the
Transvaal, if it be fair to call three
out Of four of the people. And what
ever the more immediate fortunes of
the war may be. in the end medieval
ism will make way for the modern.
The ultimatum is a death warrant. 1t
is the beginning of the end of mon
strous discrimination, of bigotry and
Of thin1y disguised barbarism, and not
too soon by the end can the beginning
be overtaken.
The ultimatum sent to Great Britain
by the Boer government was an act of
harikari upon the part of the Beers.
They sounded their own death knell
when the first act of war was commit
ted. They threw down a challenge
that meant nothing more nor less than
war They pushed to the frontier be-
fore reply to the ultimatum was due.
They declined to listen to reason and
hey are now at the beginning of what
S more than likely to be a terrible end
or the little republic.