Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-21

London Jan. 1S.-Peace, calm, gentle
peace, finds little favor either among the
colonial correspondents of the big Lon
don dailcs or in the hearts of the great
British public. They both dearly love a
'shindy'-both are equally DESTROYS of
England's being a militant force among
the worlds nations. And, it must be adj
mitted, they go into any scheme that
tends to keep B%ritannia's battle flags
fluttering in the wind with all the force
of your average Britisher, whether it
be waxing wroth over the ~eXtravagant
price he has to pay for a bottle of
"Baws" in some out of the way hole on
the continent, or the deep interest he has
been recently taking in the threatened
outbreaks against the English colonists
in the Transvaal. Recent events in the
Boer country began to look promising,
from the point Of view of England mill
tant, when the cables announced that Ce-
Gil Rhodes had sailed for home Mill
tant England's little war" seemed avert
ed.
AT the same time the editorial writer's
began to point out that as Rhodes has
lived the enmity of a portion of the lib
erals and the nOn-conformistS it was
more han likely that he would. from
thenceforth, dictate the governments At
rican policy. This policy" by the way
is interesting-and in a measure fiat
tering-to the average American. For
it is not often in discussing the ques-
ton of Great Britain's government
of her colonies that she ever thinks of
taking a leaf out of the United States
book. England dearly loves to play her
own bat-aS the cricketing phrase has
it-and therefore it is the more surpris-
ing to read these sentiments from the
lips of one of London's best informed
men on South African matters. In
speaking Of the recent outbreak he said:
The logic of events is driving Eng
Ian toward interference in the Trans
vaal even more strongly than the United
States was driven to intervene in Cuba.
President Kruger has become very
friendly to England since he lost his
brief hope of German support, kindled
by Emperor Williams telegram. He is
probably an honest fanatic, but he is in
the hands CT a ring. all rich, whose OBJ
ject is to squeeze as much as possible out
of the foreigners
The threatened creation Of a Jameson
day proved to be a flash in the pan.
And johannesburg did not witness the
spectacle of the gallant doctor being
burned in effigy. Since Jameson re-
turned to South Africa he has grown
to be very popular with all classes Of the
people. and it is scarcely probable that
he will jeopardize the reputation by re-
peating the jameson Raid." He is
perfectly well aware that the same frothy
agitators who played at rebellion three
years ago, who implored Jameson TO
come to their aid. and then fed Johan-
nesburg when fighting seemed imminent
are behind the present agitation. This
lesson he learned then at their hands
seems hardly like to need to be impressed
upon him again in this, the year Of our
Lord 1899.
In the Transvaal, or in English dis
cussion over South African affairs, every
thing dates from the Raid Tina
dashing ride of Jameson and his COM
panions aroused a feeling of resentment
among the Beers that even the pacific
measures OF President Kruger cannot
assuage. And it smolders like a volcanic
fire, bursting forth, as it did in the last
weeks Of December, with a lurid light