Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-09-30
DEsERET EVENING NEWS SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 30 1892

cultural uoer made the cost of lving on
the Rand swallow up the entire wages
OF the average white worker, The llqupf
law was administered solely DO The IN
tcrcsia of the SELLERS OF drink, who
demorallzcd the natives a monopoly
was created ln explosives for mining
purposes. whereby prices were 20
swollen al 10 create scandal that even
the less fosslllzod Beers could not sup
port. utter police lnefilclenCy and COR
ruptl0n fostrfpd crime ~ ull Kinds. ana
made the place almost more dangerous
Tor the inw-nhider than the criminal
The natives, when once they came IN
der the power Of the HuofH were treat
ga with q barbariy which recalls the
worst days uf the slnve.trader while
the cope boys mostly hnlf.cnHtea and
Indians. both cinrHaa British auhicctE-
wore hnrusaoi with % persiateuce and
rplontlraHncss which were not only ut
trrly condcmnahie In themselves. but
absolutely Illegal from The point ~ View
OF the Conventions. wherein the word
native" did not bear the broader con-
stfuci.0u now placed ou o.
Mnuop0lios IN goods not produced IN
the country were shpworcd on
SUPPORTERS or THE PRETORIA
RING.
and n b. common knowledge that most
Of the iDor legislators have accepted
in one form or another enormous hrihHH.
The Ult'uudcr has been taxed. virtual.
~, without any representation ana
without tho least heed or Die prutcstF.
he was Communicated f0r the native
wars which the iioorf utterly miImnu-
aged. until the British government put
its foot down. whefrupou the Tmuavnnl
calmly remarked, Equal privilege Tor
all. no war. no vote A war tax was
then levied on biz property until hls
government interviewed
Dutch was the Language Of the courts.
90 which 900 out n 600 ffnuucnter1 were
English. Dutch was the Language 0f the
Nolksmad. not English or Dutch. na at
the Cape. Dutch was the language N
the schools. whore nearly every child
spoke English. ns little time as rossl-
BILE being given IN che study of the lat
Ter Language. Municipal privileges NJ
the Rand have been made n farCicul
quantity BY adr1lt engineering very
limited local government
OutruEcH ON persons and property at
tnlned positively terrifying proper
tlons. ana yet nothing was dome. the
riEht N public meeting WAS practically
donisd. the press was internationally
muzzlod the hyglCnic condition " the
Rand became. In Hoer hands. o scan
dali tho foreigner was oppressed In
every possible way. and the more oflu-
HlVo this was. the happier was tho nuOr.
Added 10 900 which the TrunHyuHl
began TO question the convention Of
1884.
DENY THE suZERAtNTY,
Intrigue with foreign powers. arm 10
the teeth. spread unrest throughout
South Africa. and stand alone BOO thn
midst M o. half hemisphere ~ progress
uH an utterly fIaalllEed. rturtl0uary and
Homlsclvllizod people.
In recent yCuu the movement Tor
redress of grievances grew rapidly
Sometimes the TranHyanl played
holder game than others. -Four times
since iss6 have We been ON the brink ~
war with the liocrs. In 1895 the Jane
son raldHa most ili-udyiHeI movement
on behalf of thoruughly righteous
cnur,-cnat down the hopes of the Op-
pressed Tltlnnders in the Transvani.
the present crisis came 60 "a head with
the brutal murder ~ the man Edgar By
the Rand pallce IN December ls9s
Since then tho British government
has warmly interviewed ana though the
Beers have rctroutcd more or less hast
n.y. particularly on the franchise quca-
tlun, which now stands nc seven years
with n myriad Of Inevitable "cundl-
lions" there D. not q single grievance
~ the above which has been drasticai-
ly romedlcd.
Some. but not an. arise out Of the
convention: those which do not arc like
ly o. md settlement on the broad
ground Of the protection u British ciu-
gems from oppression and wrong
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