The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-15
WITH MAILED HAND.


Prior to Lord Lansdowne's assent Gen.
Butler expressed the opinion that when he
had driven the Beers into corner his
hand might be stayed by a peace-loving
cabinet or a Well-intentioned war Office
a condition of things he could not toler-
ate, for, as he expressed it, his hand was
mot one of those that once put to the
plow releases its grip 1t appears that
both the queen and the cabinet practical
Iy acquiesced in his demand, although, of
course, claiming a nominal control, scarce
~ worth the name Butler is pretty GER
tain to cut the wires behind him and to
be out of touch with London at critical
moments for fear the cabinet might
change it's mind.
1t is this man, then, whom some of his
own officers do not hesitate to call a
brute, however much they admire his de-
termination, who holds the destiny of the
Transvaal and the Orange Free State in
his hand. He knows the Beers and he
hates them He has campaigned over
the whole present battle ground, and is,
above ALL soldier from head to foot.
AS soon as he reaches South Africa he
will inaugurate a campaign of such ag
gressiveness as the world has seldom
seen. but which he believes justiffable by
virtue of his own superior force. The
sternest measures will not be too stern
for him, and until the last vestige of
Dutch power, whether in the TranSvaal,
the Orange Free State or the Cape Col
ony. is swept out he will not stay his
hand.
The idea is well illustrated by Sir John
Teniel's cartoon inthis weeks Punch, rep
resenting John Bull saying: LAS you will
fight you shall have it this time. 1t is
a fight to the finish
UITIMATUM WAS WELCOMED.
Gen Buffers mission is nearly in keep
ing with the spirit of the colonial office
Rightly or wrongly they believe the war
to be the only possible method of solving
the Transvaal troubles Those officials
have made no attempt to conceal their
satisfaction at receiving an ultimatum
from President Kruger thus enabling
them to place the onus of the war on the
Beers England may or may not have
justification for her contentious, but the
government organs, which must know, as
the Associated Press knows by personal
knowledge, the real feeling of the anti
Roer party in England have made pitt
ful hypocrites of themselves in printing
{erenoiads upon President Kruger's fool
lshness in sending an ultimatum The
only surprise with the anti-Boer party is
that President Kruger did not do so weeks
ago. when British reinf0rcements were on
the road The only explanation for his
failure to do so is that he overestimated
the strength of the British peace party.
once Gen. Butler gets to work, it is
believed here the Beers will offer little
organized resistance. Something depends,
of course upon the success they may
achieve In the interim, but the life in
surance companies are only asking an eX-
ira premium Of fivepence as a war risk,
IN other words placing the odds at 20 to l.
This does not apply to South African ir-
regulars, fighting side by side with the
regulars, for it is said the Beers will show
fhem no quarter. This Is not hard TO be-
Ueye when it is recalled with what un-
usual inhumanity the Beers treated the