Arizona republican., 1899-12-29
PHGNIx, DECEMBER 2e. 1899.

The suggestion has been made by several newspapers of continental Flu
 rope that the time is ap-
 NO MED- preaching when it may
 DLING IN be necessary for one or TRANSVAAL. more of the great pow
 CTS to intervene in the war now going on in South Africa for the purpose of putting an end to this exceedingly bloody contest Unfortu- nately, this war is one which does not lend itself to this form of arrest It partakes in certain features of the nat ure of civil war. an effort on the part of a semi-independent state to throw off the political connections which bind 1t to another. In certain respects it re- sembles the contest carried on by the federal government against the s0uth- ern confederacy, a contest in which, if interference had been attempted, we should have looked upon the power pre- suming to interfere as an enemy, and would have had no hesitancy in making such action the occasion for a declara- tion of war. The reason for such action on our part would not have been our desire to fight, or to needlessly prolong q struggle, but a keen realization that, if we did not carry the war to a thor oughly successful conclusion, it meant the dismemberment of the United States and the impairment of our standing in the world as a great, grow ing and prosperous nation.
 This explains to some extent the po- sition of Great Britain. It may be real ized at the present time that a mistake was made in precipitating this contest when, by temporizing, matters could have been kept in abeyance for a few years more, during which time the growth of the Outlander element would have been so great as to have practi- cally swamped the Boers. The resist ing power of the Boers must have been underestimated, for it is certain that it was not known that they were so well prepared as it is found that they were for this ending of the dispute. In view of recent experiences, the Jameson raid, based on the idea that a few thousand Outlanders, with no organization what soever. could forcibly overthrow the Boer republic, seems foolish in the ex- treme. Great Britain is, however, now embarked in this contest, and for her own future standing as nation must not only carry it to an end, but must s4 l.. tionably in entire control of the situ- ation.
 She cannot afford, any more than we could, to tolerate or permit of inter- ference. The nation or nations that took it upon themselves to thus act would need to be held by her as en- emies, and to be proceeded against as such. The only outcome of interven- tion would be an enforced acknowl- edgement that the Boers were to be in- dependent, and that they were to have the dominant power in South Africa, dividing the British possessions at the Cape of Good Hope completely from those the English hold in central and northern Africa. This so far as Eng land is concerned, would be but the be- ginning of the end. Following on such an enforced peace would be an uprising in India, artfully encouraged by Russian influences, and affording to Russia an opportunity to come in as the apparent friend and sympathizer of the Indian people. Be- side this, an inroad would be instantly made by covetous European nations upon Egypt and such other colonial possessions as England has which are not held by a self governing people. l With these latter such, for example, as Canada and Australia, independence would probably prove necessary in or der to avoid the complications which l might follow the downfall of the inn perial strength of Great Britain. Against such an outcome the English | are compelled to offer the most strenu- GUS resistance, and, unquestionably, | this is what they will do. So seriously | would our trade interests all over the | world suffer by d reversal which de- prived Great Britain of the position she | now holds that we could well afford | not only to protest against such inter vention, but to offer our assistance in | preventing it. The downfall of Eng |