New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-11-30
CHAMBERLAIN AND RHODES.
AN ENGLISH CORRESPONDENT CoNsID-
Frs THEM THE WORST FOES OF
THE OUTLANDERS.
NEVERTHELESS HE HOLDS THAT ENGLAND's
VICTORY IN SOUTH AFRICA WILL MAKE FOR
JUSTICE AND THAT THE EMPIRE
BUILDER" WILL BE RELEGAT-
ED TO THE RE.

BUILDER" WILL BE RELEGAT-
TO THE REAR.
To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: AS an Englishman who has been tour
ing through the United States for the. last six
weeks and who has consistently read The Trib-
une for daily news. 1 should like to express my
gratitude for the valuable support you have
given to our cause in the Transvaal. l should
like also to suggest that the issues raised by
such letters on the other side as I observe in to-
days number are not necessarily final: SYM
patty with the British forces need not neces-
sarily imply allegiance TO Mr.. Rhodes or to Mr..
Chamberlain.
For example. I myself regard Mr.. Rhodes's
policy as pathetic anachronism-a survival OF
the days when empire makers were not tram
melled by such petty obstacles as telegraph
wires Though my sympathizers are mainly
Conservative l shall vote on the other side In
the next election merely because Mr.. Chamber
lain is a member of the present Ministry Ow-
ing TO his change Of front in 1885, he has the
adhesion of many honest citizens who credited
him with disnterested and patriotic motives
for this step
Now. few Of my American friends and ac-
quaintances seem to have conjectured the pos
sibnity Of Messrs. Rhodes and Chamberlain
are not. as a class disposed to be Rhodesian
benchmen They were on the point Of gaining
some measure Of acknowledgements in 1898, when
Mr. Rhodes wishing TO shed Rhodesan CLAM
our on the transaction, set the clock nifty years
back by a clumsy raid. This might have been
remeded by honest and courageous statesmen
at home. had not Mr.. Chamberlain proclelmed
his code Of political morality 10 the world Dy
Announcing that Mr.. Rhodes's personal honor"
had been uninjured by the report OF the oouth
African Commission Thus the boers car,
hardly be censured for not trusting in the good
offices OF our peace party though II Is ny no
means impossible that Lord Salisbury might
not in the end have remedjed the Colonial sec
retary's diplomatic indiscretions
on the other hand we, like the Parnamehtar-
ians Of 1910, had no securities for the nam
tenance Of the pledged reforms; their estaollsh-
rnent was 10 be conditional by the remuneration
Of such guarantees The war might conceNaoIy
have been avoided; but none would deny that
the Beers had been preparing Tor H. anu ueSiIeu
Il sooner or later Under these circumstances
how should II he regarded by the patrlotlc Btu BTU
Usher and by the American well wlsher IN Io9S
many Englshmen felt that your war WIN Spain
might have been avoided by an ideal diplonacy,
as ours might have been now But history rs
assuredly a great pts aller. Truman 'L.oS
a no less rough and ready device DelMcc"
states than between individuals. Broadly con
sdered. your war of lS9S mace lot Jus.'ce'
broadly considered. our war makes TOT JUST
aven II the Transvaal were regarded as SOY
ereign independent state When the war Is
over Mr. Chamberlain will have TO account TOT
his stewardship to the country anu lhe 80
settlement OF South African affairs VIII IeSHe
loss scope for the buccaneering energies OF MI
Rhodes - .ooaors
Are they really convinced that the Brlusn cause
IN South Africa is as Ubiquitous as II Is Jun
happily unplausbe. that the Khouesldils a. a.
the best friends and not the worst loes ~ nv ~
OutIanders and that the hard won success OF
the Rritish arms will not ultimately achieve
true democracy based on freedom. order anu
real eqush'S before '"e f. S. P. HAYNES