Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-10-21
The Question in South Africo

80 WILL q.
Our readers are no doubt aware that
The New York World undertook TO 40.
cure petition including she leading
newspaper men of the United States to
an address to the presidential the United
states urging that official to offer his ser.
wees as Il peace maker between the
Beers and British in Africa
They are also we'll aware that the
scheme failed, but not all of them are
aware OF the clean cut and very pointed
editorial reasons given by Mr.. VIM R.
Hearst, editor of the New York Jour
nal, for refusing to participate in that
petition. As this editorial gives the on.
tire South African question in nut shell
we take pleasure in printing it. Here is
what Mr. Hearst says:
THE editor of the Journal hos boo,,
requested to sign. petition to President
Mckinley urging him to interfere be-
tween England and the Boers, to use the
influence OF the United States to prevent
England from interfering in Boer ar.
rangements. The editor OF the Journal
declines. lie believes that interference
by England is legitimate, that civil
cation and progress demand it. This
belief is based on the following facts:
The constitution and laws of the
Transyaal, which really reflect the per-
sonal wishes and religious prejudicos OF
Paul Kruger and few othar Dutchmen.
forbid any Catholic to share in the law
making for the country. England de-
mands that this discrimination against
Catholics cease.
''The Transvaal lave forbid any Jew
to share the law making power. Eng
land demands that this discrimination
against the Jews coase.
"Therc are 100000 whites in the 60
called Boer Republic, but only 10000
are Beers. The Beers declare that they
are merely asking ths right to live
What they really ask is the right Of six
men to tyrannize over twenty--of 600.-
600 to rule 200 000-and rule them I'M
justly. The Boer attitude is not de,
mand for freedom 1t is strictly an at
titude OF denying freedom to others. The
Beer bosses controlled by Kruger main
tain a government by aristocracy, an ar
istocracy based on brth-Dutch birth.
''lf the Dutch who settled this island
(Mauhattan) had insisted on keeping
the island strictly Dutch; il they had
refused to any save Prote slant Dutch
men all share in the law-making power; ;
if they had forbidden children in the pub
lie schools to be taught anything save
Dutch and miserably bastard Dutch,
they would have acted in America pre-
cisely as the Beers are now acting in
South Africa.
could they have hoped to maintain
such an attitude? Could civilization,
morality, or any form OF decency have
Justly upheld them merely on the ground
that power greatly superior desired to
compel the adoption of common sense
methods?
"The appeal is made and signed by
eminent politicians TO give little re-
public from destruction.a the hands Of
ruthless empire Kruger's country is
no republic. Kruger has been an abso-
Lutte ruler there for seventeen years. All
powce in ms hands, and that OF coun-
ell O avea They can and do ignore
the lsor aud orders of even the Upper
Hou IF Representatives. The land OF
the Beers ia no republic. It's med
laeyal, a.gosry- ridden Dutch settlement
AS great an anachronism as any in eX-
istence-and this is the question at issue
in the Transyaal
Can ak white men arbitrarily tax
twenty white men? Can six white Eaen
arbitrarily govern twenty white men?
Should settlement OF profoundly ignor-
ant Dutch Beers he encouraged in the
Acknowledgement of Jews and OF Cath
olics and believers in all other religions
than that which they inherited with
their other prejudices? The Journal
thinks not"
The Body of r. D. Atkins.