New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-09-19
KRUEGER'S MISTAKE.
HE FANCIEs HE HAS A STRONG PARTY II
ENGLAND IN HIS FAVOR.

MoRLEY-DANGER OF A BoER OUTBREAK.
London. September 8.
There is not bit OF doubt about IT In tho
minds OF nine men out OF ten who are in the
least informed upon the subject: things do point
this morning toward war. Mr.. John Morleys
speech at Montrose on Tuesday night is emf
nently calculated to "stiften' Mr.. KRUGER; and
on whether or no Mr.. KRUGER 'unstifens," thu
whole question Of war hinges. We
all respect Mr. Morley in a way, but that is not
the way OF craftsmanship He is indeed the least
practical of statesmen. and at Montrose his worst
qualities were uppermost. For months Her Ma
jesty's Government has been endeavorng 70
bring home to the Boer mind that 1t must con-
sent to reforms which all the world, including
Mr. Morley, considers requisite and necessary
as well for the health Of the Transvaal as Of the
Empire, or else take the consequences. Con
sequences" of course. mean wharf.-the very last
expedient that any Outlander is likely 10 gain
by. and the very last that any member OF the
present Government would wish to ensue. To
every Outlander must mean loss, 10 many
il means ruin. The preposterous assumption
that Mr.. Chamberlain Is anxious TO annex tho
Transvaal a solace to his wounded amour
propre no honest and earnest critic sincerely
supposes to hold water, and Sir Henry Stanley
probably expresses the fact as tersely any one
can when he informs a correspondent that Mr.
Chamberlain is no more boodthirsty than the
average Quaker. Neither Mr.. Chamberlain nor
any other member of the British Cabinet desired
to fight; but he will not shrk fighting when
fighting Is the only possible resort; and none 81
them can turn blind eye to the indubtabe fact
that nothing but the fear Of the strongest meas
ures has ever Influenced or ever will influence
Mr.. KRUGER TO concede to the Outlanders those
bare rights which the leader Of the Opposition
himself has declared 10 he the first necessity
of any civilized community
The promises which Mr.. KRUGER uttered after
the Jameson raid were simply made because he
dreaded the active Intervention Of the suzerain
Power; when that dread was Withdrawn his
promises to forgive and forget were promptly
forgotten, and his little finger became heavier
than his own loins. After the present pro-Out-
lander agitation first began Mr.. Krtger secuted
1t as stOutly as on a memorable day some years
ago when he told the deputation Of English and
American remonstrants: II will yield nothing:
let the storm burst; and colleague Of the
Transvaal Executive was good enough to add
that II Outanders wanted their rights they
might fight for them. However. Mr. KRUGER pres
emily saw that the agitation Of 1899 was serious.
and in little while we found him proclaming
that Justice and righteousness" demanded that
he should make some concession. Since then
1t has been made apparent that this country
means business and will not desert those sub
jects of Great Britain and their American
cousins who rely upon British good faith to seq
them through, and in consequence the Presi-
dent has gradually yielded TO a degree not sat-
isfactory to the Outlanders and their friends,
but startling when he is regarded as an autocrst
who little time ago prepared to yield
nothing
THE LITTLE ENGLANDERs.
Who is there. being unbiased. who does not
believe that under steady united pressure from
this country the President would long ago have
yielded all that Sir Alfred Miner asked hin
at the Conference OF Bloemfontein. I say
STEADY united" pressure, but then we have had
to reckon with the voice Of Little England. The
President has received assurances from ths
country that he has only TO hold on but ntts
longer TO find Mr. Chamberans policy reversed.
An eminent official OF the South African repub-
lie lately told a correspondent OF the writer who
is Dutchman. but loyal to the Government oc
Cape Colony, under which he grew up that IL
he were Mr.. Krtiger he would yield nothing.
in little time" he said, "the present Ministry
Mr. Chamberlain will have to go; then things
will be just as they were" From this you may
estimate the poison which these Little Ens-
landers no doubt with the best intentions haya
been pouring into the Transvaal. Any one VIII,
has talked 10 Mr. Kriiger must remember the
almost childlike way in which he repeats that
his great standby is our English party system
He remembers Mr., Gladstones withdrawal in
1881 he does NOT remenoher that Mr. Gladst0ns
only withdrew because he was convinced that
under the terms OF the Convention British sun
jects were pla led on an equal footing with
Transvaal burghers for all time Thus he has
come to persuade himself that IL you only hold
out sufficiently long against government in
Office British timidity and aversion to Will
combine with the jealouses OF the party system
TO bring about a withdrawal In your favor
Said one to Mr.. Krtiger: Surely Your Honor
cannot suppose that the republic can hold ia
own against Great Britain. | can we'll believe
that your more ignorant burghers suppose that
they defeated British army in the field but
surely you know we'll that Matuba was mere
AFFAIR OF an advance column badly picked and
handled from which you can argue nothing"
You are mistaken" said the President Il
quite understand about Majuba, and So lei me
tell you. do a good many Of my burghers bur
what know and what they know is that the
Liberal party will always be upon my SIDE
Britain is a transport rider who changes oxen
crossing a stream" And that to-day Is still
the redoubtable old gentlemans attitude. III In
formed in any detail upon British opinion, he IS
not able TO discriminate between the Liberals
who are Of consequence and the Liberals who
| are OF power. He hears Sir Henry Campbell
Bannerman and Mr.. Asquith join with the
Prime Minister and the Colonial Secretary in
demanding the redress Of Outlander grievances.
but against these warnings all the more
weighty for the cautious Language In which