The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-08
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TIL MEANING OF THE WAR IN
The TRANSVAAL

iSh Is no doubt justified by the British
leaders, and by the government of
course, but it is not generally held
outside that it is a war of invasion
justified entirely. if at all, by the other
nations. 1t is in accord with British
history for two hundred years, since
Give im~mortalized himself in India
and added it to the British crown by
conquest. The ukase or ultfmatum
has been sent to President kruger
"You must come under British rule if
We have to lick you to do So" The
objective point is conquest, and the
cause much gold, etc. The British sub
jects have been steadily taking up their
abode within Kruger's doVninions.
They are said to very greatly outnum-
Der the Dutch Beers. They are called
Uftlanders, and they are very covetous
of being the bosses. They are whites
and pay the bulk of the taxes it is
stated. The case is probably intelli-
gently and correctly stated in this par
agraph We take from the Philadelphia
American:
But it is also very natural that the
Beers should look very unkindly upon
the prospect OF being ousted from the
rule Of their country by these new
corners who have swarmed over them
in search Of gold. Give these Uitland-
ers who are loyal to the British 'rown
rather than the T~raansvaal Republic,
who have in NJ way been assimilated
by the Beers, have different ambiti ms,
different views of life, different sympa-
thies and attachments, give to them the
franchise and they would, the Beers
not unI.aturally fear, 500 vote to turn
over the Transvaal to the British en-
pire, wipe out the Transvaal republic
off h earth. So we can appreciate
the feeling of the Beers and pity them.
But the Uitlanders have real griev-
ances, many of them. And might is on
their side"
Yes, but is there right? The Amer
leans swept away out of the track of
progress, the poor INDIAN and did
it grimly and gladly, but not humane
1y. The theory Of England is the
theory of Ancient Rome, and the prac-
tice agrees. 1t is the theory of northern
Methodist preachers and other minis
terial fanatics. 1t lis the cry of might
over right. 1t is the assertion of sell
fishness and greed over mercy and
justice. The American is cold-blooded,
and states the Vandalic policy i'm such
deliberate and blood curdling words a.
these:
cit is a case of more progressive
people sweeping up in it's onward
march against an inferior people. In
the way of its further advance stands
the inferior people, the waves of pro-
gress must sweep over the people or
they will be turned back, the march Of
progress halted And it is not fated
THAT thiJ shall be. The nor progress
sive people must sweep over the infe-
rior, assimilate them and carry them
along in the road of progress, or if this
be impossible, exterminate them And
in either event such people will disap-
pear as a distinct race"
1t is no wonder that the north waged
such a war of desolation and savagery
against the south maxine il what old
'"Cump' Sherman declared it to be. He
said war is hell" He knew what he
made it. Until the Christian religion
dominates in every soul man will re-
main practically a half savage, and
will act upon the robber principle that
it is right for the strongest to take and
TO hold. War without right and JUS
.tice is Internal and men who wage it
need to be civilized.
The Beers are not equal to the Brit
ish, but they are men and are partly
,C~hristianized as is the case with all of
the civilized peoples. Two generations
ago they left their homes in the Cape
and imnigrated to Natal. The purpose
to get away from British domination
and he free. They went into the will
derness as did our American ancestors
who fled from the same British rule
as they hoped. British ideas and prin-
ciples and government were offensive
to these Dutch d~iscedants in Africa.
They began business in the wilderness,
toiling, sweating, lingering, fighting
trying to build a state. They live far
away and hoped for peace and plenty,
but this was not to be it seems. The
American gives this bit of history:
1.-The British followed them, occupied
the country, took it for their own, no
more should Beers rule there. And
then again, in 1852, the Beers abandon
ed that which they had won for their
own, the land they had reclaimed and
where they had built their homes, and
marched off further into the depths of
the then unknown continent in search
of a land that they might call their
own, a land where they might be free.
where no outside ideas, no foreign in
fuence would disturb the event of their
lives. Thus they came to the Trans
yaal and reared their republic, but as if