The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-11-05
THE BOERS
Chicago Pastor Claiming In
side Information
SAYS ENGLAND is RIGHT
And the Roers Deserve TO be
Wiped Out.

Chicago, Nov. Ain anaddress to his
congregation, DR.. W. D. Mackenzie pas
tor of the New England Congregational
church, opposes the Beers in their pres
ent conflict with Great Britain. Dr.. Mac
Kennels father was a missionary in the
Transvaal, nd he is fmiliar with every
phase of tn eeeries Of events leading UP TO
the present war. He felt that war
against the Beers was humanitarian just
as was that of American for Cuba. The
Beers, he said, kept the natives in virtual
! slavery and imposed all sorts of harsh
conditions on all foreigners who settled in
! the South African republic. He said in
! part:
THE causes Of war in two civilized COM
munitie aslways lie deeper than the sur
/ face disputes which become its apparent
! occasion. 1t was so in the late American
war with Spain. 1t would be false 10 say
that America ended the Spanish colonial
! empire because the Maine was sunk or
| because certain American capitalists fore
saw wealth for themselves and others in
the acquisition of Cuba and Porto Rico
The cases of that war lay far deeper, in
the moral and religious differences be-
tween the Spanish and American peoples,
differences which clashed so near the
shores of this continent that the strug
gle became inevitable.
so it is in South Africa in this hour,
so it has been for nearly 100 years To
i,,+o
whether Mr.. Chamberlain has conducted
the negotiations with President Kruger
wisely or not. That is a question for the
peopleof England to determine, and soon
er or later they will make up their minds
an dact accordingly. My own expectation
would be that Mr.. Chamberlain would not
be the man to aim a Cancellation and the
preservation of peace if he found himself
irritated and baff1ed by an astute and per-
sistent opponent. 1 am quite prepared to
find various points in which both Mr.
Chamberlain and President Kruger sinner
grievously against the interests Of their
respective countries in the course of their
recent negotiations. But we must take
human nature as it is, and the facts of
national government as they are whe we
are called upon to judge q question like
the present. TWAS inevitable that the
long struggle between the Transvaal and
Great Britain should end either in the
submission ofthe one to the other through
peaceful negotiations or in a war like in
which they are unhappily engaged today.
''In relation to the differences between
the English and the Dutch which led
those now in the Transvaa1 to leave the
Cape Colony when England acquired it by
purchase from Holland, it is ofimportance
to remember the following facts:
81. That any migration from the Dutch
population was a migration of the Dutch
minority. the majority remaining to be-
come better citizens than those who left.
go. That the main reason for migration
was to escape the firm but perfectly just
government of England, especially as it
attempted to regulate their treatment of
the native races.
''3. That the Beers. in occupying the
Transvaal. nd to fight with the native
tribes, whose lands they seized as farms,
and whose persons they reduced prac-
tically to slavery These native peoples |
may have amounted 10 100000 in total
population
not attempt 10 define the boundaries Of
the Transvaal state. The result Of this
deliberate omission was that, having no
borders to the north or castor west the |
internal history of Boer government con- |
sisted largely in the gradual seizure from !
thenatives of one region of farm lands at |
ter another.
at is evident that the wholecause Of |
the clashing of Britain and the Transvaal /
has been the persistent determination of |
the latter to treat native tribes as having |
no rights. civil or religious, and their |
willingness to break any treaty inorder TO /
carry their cherished policy through.
with the discovery Of gold the atten- |
ton of the Beers was turned inward upon !
their own land. Now they had new |
enemy and new victims. but their policy |
wa sthe same. They refused to give or |
binary civil rights to the large numbers |
of Europeans who were hockins in. Fear |
ing to be swallowed up in an English
speaking community. they passed re- |
strictive laws of all kinds. They raised |
the terms Of admission to the franchise
from two to fourteen years and even in
sisted that each applicant must be voted
on by itself.
The European inhabitants became more
and more FESTIVE, They planned the rev.
olution which did not come. but led to
the fasco known as the Jameson raid.
Al last they sent in that petition 20
Queen Victoria last spring which led TO
the negotiations which ende din this war
The Beers. then, have always clashed
with the British over the question OF the
rights Of others. They have kept their
own ideal Of a great land y Dutch-speak-
ing and slave-holding farmers before their
minds so long and have pursued It 50
steadily that they have become blind 10
justice and unfit for the exercise OF gov
eminent over their fellow men"