The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-20
cHAMBERLAIN's ACCUSED.
w. T. Stead Charges Him With Com
plicity In Jameson Raid.

New York. Oct. ia dispatch to the
World from London says: The calling
out of the militia indicates plainly that
the British government considers it
necessary to take timely precautions
against some foreign complications
which threatens to supervene on the
Transvaal trouble. In the first in
stance, the militia is only TO be en-
ployed to take the place in home gar
risons of the line regiments that are
going 10 South Africa
The government has not thought it
advisable, in view of the hostile feeling
evoked in Ireland by the attack on the
Boer republics, to reduce the Irish mill
tary establishment below its normal
strength of 10000 men, and it is intend
ed TO set free the regular regiments
stationed in ireland for war sirvec by
substituting English militia battalionS
in the Irish garrisons, the Irish militia
being sent for duty to England.
The militia can be sent on foreign
] services but such a measure is never
contemplated except in time of eX-
treme national peril, when the home de-
! Tense is to be committed to the volun-
teers. This calling out of the militia
! has added appreciably to the general
estimate of the gravity of the situation.
! w. T. Stead has issued a pamphlet
on the Boer war, entitled: Are We in
! the Right? An Appeal to All Honest
Men II is a powerful Indictment of
Chamberlain diplomacy bringing in
the strongest relief the persistent prov
ocative course followed by the colonial
secretary throughout the negotiations
with the patent object of forcing war
on the Transvaal.
! The most sensational part of the PAM
phlet is Mr.. Stead's solemn declaration
that Cecil Rhodes informed him that
Lott 70 t1,a
jameson raid, and that the parliament
tary inquiry into the origin of that
! conspiracy was huShed up because a
point had been reached in the investi-
cation which, if exceeded, would impli-
cate the colonial secretary directly in
the plot.
Dr. Rutherford Harris. the secretary
of the British South Africa company,
/ Stead says, was Rhodes intermediary
with Chamberlain, and the latter, after
some hesitation, was finally roped into
the conspiracy by a cablegram from
! Rhodes, stating that unless facilities
were given for the original of Jameson S
force, England would lose South Africa.
In his pamphlet Mr. Stead says
Before the prime minister of the
Cape went very far in the conspiracy
he found it necessary to enlist the sup
port of the colonial Office in his de-
signs. He sent over to London his FL
dus AchateS, DR.. Rutherford Harris,
with instructions to inform Mr.. Cham
berlain of what was brewing. Mr.
Harris executed his mission and cabled
to Rhodes the result Of the interview.
AT first Chamberlain refused, but
subsequently, after Harris had spoken
openly to Mr.. Fairfield of the colonial
Office, and had communicated to Cham
berlain the contents of cablegram
from Rhodes. warning him that if he
thwarted the conspiracy England
would lose South Africa, Chamberlain
gave way on the convenient preteXt of
necessity for protecting the builders of
the Bechuanaland railway from non
existent savage tribes.
Further, Kruger has heard that
communications between the conspira-
tors eTniSSarieS and the colonial Office
| were close and constant communication
| and that during the whole month Of
November cablegrams were constantly
passing and repassing between the chief
conspirators at Cape Town and his
| trusted enissaries and friends in Lon
don, who were on his behalf keeping
the colonial office in touch with the
movement. He knows also that on
/ Nov. 4 Mr.. Fairfield advised the re-
moval of the imperial troops before the
ugly row began in which the leading
role Was TO he played by the forces of
the chartered company. This letter is
one Of the few documents that are in
| evidence
He has heard also that, SO far from
Mr.. Chamberlain knowing nothing Of
The complot, he took so keen and close
an interest in its development that he
insisted that JameSon's men should go
in under the Union Jack and that the
next governor of the Transvaal should
! be appointed by The colonial office Fur
Their. he knows that just before the raid
took place a cablegram was received
at Cape Town from a trusted friend of
Rhodes in London who Immediately af-
1 ter a long interview with Chamberlain.
telegraphed to hurry up.
President Kruger also knows that
when Rhodes went home to face the
music after the raid. his first step was
to send Mr.. Hawksley to tell Mr.. Fair
field Of the existence of cablegrams
which had passed between Cape Town
and London, which established the COM
plicity of the colonial office il the con-
spiracy''