The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-07-29
BOERS MUST YIELD
PLAIN TALK ON TRANSVAAL TROU-
BILE IN THE BRITISH HOUSE
OF COMMONS
ECHOED In HOUSE OF LORDS
ENGLAND HAS ESPOUsED THE
CAUSE OF OUTLANDERs, AND
WILL NOT SHIRK
PEACE IS STILL HOPED FOR


British Subjects in TransvaaI
What Has Been Asked In Reason
and Promised by President Kru-
ger in Previous Conventions.
LONDON, July 28.-Speaking on the
Transvaal question in the house Of COM
mons today Joseph Chamberlain said a
crisis in South Africa had been reached.
The grievances of the outlanders, Mr..
Chamberlain said, were admitted on all
hands to be serious; but the most seri-
GUS part was that the outrageous treat
ment to which they were subjected was
part of the settled policy pursued by the
Beers. The situation was dangerous to
imperial interests. AS regards the racial
feud coming out of war, race antagontsm
already existed and was poisoning the
community. The danger of disaffection in
Cape Colony and the Orange Free State
was entirely due to the action of the
Transvaal. It was not question of a
five or seven years franchise, but of the
power and authority of the empire and
Of the position of Great Britain in South
Africa.
Referring to offers of colonial help Mr..
Chamberlain said if the matter could be
satisfactorily arranged 1t would be graf
flying to know that in time of trouble
the country could count upon the 10y
atty of the colonies.
Mr. Chamberlain justified imperial in
terveption because it was the right of ev-
=
jects; secondly, because Great Britain
had the right of Intervention under the
convention as the suzerain power; and,
thirdly, because the convention had been
broken il letter and in spirit.
Referring to Sir Campbell Bannerman's
eulogy of Hon. w SchIeiner, formerly
prime minister to Cape Colony, and John
Fofmeier, the Afrikander leader, Mr..
Chamberlain said that both of them had
declared that the earlier and illusory
proposals of President Kruger were en-
tirely adequate and satisfactory. When
they were quoted as impartial Judges,
whose assistance the government ought
to invite, the house must remember that
they had been at least a little premature.
In dealing with the latest proposals Mr..
Chamberlain said:
president Kruger has invited friendly
advice and the government has thought
itself justified in appealing to him that a
joint inquiry should be held. These pro-
posals were with a view of determining
what representation would be immedi-
ately given aliens, which can be the only
basis Ct satisfactory settlement. If the
inquiry is accepted, experts will be ap-
pointed and the government hopes that
h.
ment. In any case, the government will
propose, when necessary, alterations in
order to secure the objects in view. We
have undertaken the cause of the cut
landers and are bound to see it through.
We shall not rest until a conclusion salts
factory to us has been reached. I antic-
ipate that the efforts will be successful
but we will not tie our hands in regard
to measures that may be necessary to full
fiji anticipations.'
The house adopted the colonial office
vote without a division, after pro-
tracted debate upon the South African
policy of the government.
PREMIER's PLAIN TALK.
In the house of lords the Earl of Cam
perdown called attention to the Trans
wall situation. The Earl Of Dunraven
and others followed all declaring that
icy of the government would be an act
of inestimable danger to the position OF
Great Britain. not only in South Africa.
but it might shake the imperial existence
of Great Britain itself.
The Earl of SelboGrne. und n secretary
for the colonies. made a statement SINH
lar in purpose to that made in the houss
of commons by Mr. Chamberlain.
Lord Salisbury reminded the house
that he absolutely dissented from the
policy of 1881. which was tainted with
the grave fault of optimism. Neverthe-
less. President Kruger assented in the
protocol of the 1851 convention to friend
ly cooperation of the races. while he
has since taken an absolutely opposite
line, his only effort being to separate the
English and South African governments
and to reduce the English to the status
of a subjugated race. The premier de-
clared that he was not surprised that
panic overlook President Kruger at the
interruption of the gold digging in 1885,
but he blamed him for not consulting
the British government as to how to
deal with the issue. He agreed that if
the latest concessions were genuinely
carried out the government might look
forward to a peaceful solution of the
crisis. Her majesty's government, he
said, had put their hands to the plow
and certainly did not intend to withdraw
them.
Regarding the dispatches Of Lord
George Hamilton. secretary of state for
India. to Lord Curzon. of Keddlestone
the Indian viceroy. the premier said the
government has decided to maintain the
closing OF the minis and directs him to
take the necessary steps to make the
sovereign legal tender at the ratio Of IS
rupees to the sovereign.
BALFOUR's ENDORSEMENT
Additional light has also been thrown
upon the Transvaal question by the
speech of Arthur Balfour before the
Midland Conservative union. Mr.. Bal
four asserted that Gladstone never would
have granted independence in 1880 except
on the condition that the same rights and
liberties were to be extended to the Eng
lish and Dutch races alike, and that he
certainly never contemplated that by a
series of laws the uitlanders would be
excluded from every right possessed by
the English and Dutch inhabitants in all
the rest of South Africa, nor ever con-
templated establishing by law an oligar-
chical rule by a small section of the pop
ulation, or putting the judicial courts
completely under the control of the exec
utive, thus differentiating the Transvaal
not only from the rest of South Africa,
but from every free and civilized gov
eminent in the world.
Besides, Balfour reminded his hearers