The San Francisco call., 1899-08-18
THE TRANSVAAL.

them the wholesome. element and tar promise oi
a real colonial plant. They were IN congenlal
climate in the south temperate zone. 1he Dutch
there souty perpetuated from generation 70
generation and did not die out in the Dutch plan
tations in Java and other hot islands in the Indian
Ocean.
The Dutch settlements in temperate Africa had
natural growth, and features exactly IN common with
the growth OF the English colonies in North America
which by natural increase have overgrown continent
The Dutch planted liberty and religion as the tounda
ton OF their materalities, and there grew genera
tions that know no other fatherland than the boef
nations OF the Dark Continent
Every right-minded person in the world knows ana
feels that the interests OF humanity, the welfare OF
mankind, the preservation OF the germs OF liberty
require that the Dutch OF the Transvaal be lett TO
work out their destiny by natural growth They have
taken kindly to physical conditions there. Their IL
stitrtios are such as to preserve their national and
racial characteristics and the foundation they have laid
is broad enough to hold the superstructure OF great
nation dedicated to the principles OF William the
Silent and John OF Barneveldt.
If the mission OF England were to promote the
spread of civilization and the extension OF those civil
institutions by which her people have prolted at
home, she would gaantly salute the Iransvaal Re-
public and thank it ior assuming much OF her bur
den and leave it in security to work out us great deS-
tiny That England does not do this, but instead Is
making tons OF dumdum bullets and shipping to
South Africa every terrible engine OF war that can
niutiiate and murder men, proves the cordial ny
pocrsy OF her claim be the patron and promoter
of civilization. 1t is not the credit OF the United
States that we helped England at the Peace Confer
ence steer so well through that tribunal
was provided in which people like those OF the
Transvaal appeal for justice to the conscience OF
the nations Alab covets Naboth's vineyard again,
and if the United States have acted Jezebels part III
taking it away let this nation remember Jezebels fate.
England is guilty OF ingratitude to the Dutch Under
her Stuart Kings she was practically vassal OF
France. Her Kings accepted annual subsidy for
the prvy purse from Louis XIV She under
Gallo suzerainty from Charles I to James H. with
exception OF the short reign OF the Lord Protector
Her military energies and her commercial progress
were subordinate to the interests OF France.
From this humiliation she was delivered by the
Dutch The grandson OF the great Stakeholder raised
her out of the gutter where she groveed at the feet
OF France and made her stand upright in her rightfu
place among the nations.
1t is said that one generation no gratitude nor
incurs any obligation to any that has preceded IL The
author OF that much discussed book, The Social
Compact carries this into the domestic relation and
applies to parent and child the being under
obligation to provide for the other This brutal phil
osophy seems adapted the British policy in her in
ternationa affairs, and she moves, well armed and
ocund to the slaughter OF the weak to the murder OF
liberty, to the efacement OF the best civilization in
Africa though in SO doing she is matrcide in cut
ting the throat OF principle which is the mother Of
her own liberty.
The patriots OF the Transvaal turn nowhere for
help and sympathy. Their motherand long de
bauched by the wealth that has flowed from oppres
sion OF the Javanese holding robbers title to the
land OF Others and to the bodies OF in Asia,
not dispute the right of another to rob the Trans
vaa without condemning herself.
This republic, to which until the eyes OF be-
leaguered freemen have turned in Distress to be
cheered by our sympathy, having Endorsed the doc
trine OF the divine right OF monarchy to buy and
sell land and people without their consent, and being
in the honeymoon OF conquest which pride and
policy combined to make necessary, make no sign
tc cheer the Beers.
They left alone, with their rifles, their Bibles
and their God. May fortune send them another
Mauba Hill.