Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-11-09

Outlanders represent three-ffths OF the
people. They pay nine-tenths of the
taxation, yet they have nothing to say
about the expenditure of a penny of the
public money.
8. A constitution safeguarded from
/ spasmodic changes.
4. The heads of the government re-
sponsible to the Volksraad.
5. independence of the courts. At
| present if a Judge does not respect any
| chance vote of the Volksraad he is dis
missed from Office.
6. Cancellation of monopolies.
Z. Equality in recognition by the
| courts of the English and Dutch Ian
guages, as they are in Cape Colony
s. Removal of religious disabilities
9. Reorganization of the civil ser
vice.
10. A free press.
| II. Proper schools.
| IL. Freer trade.
One cannot review these demands
without feeling that they are for the
most part just. They are such laws
that direct civilization, aid education,
incite ambition, promote progression
and dignity independence; the COM
bination Of them stands as a prepar-
| atory school to lift the oncoming gen.
Grafton to a loftier plain of civillza-
| ton. not only as civilization is under
| stood in its cruder form, but in its
| purified and polished state; that kind
| which reaches beyond the mere art OF
enriching its domains with material
wealth, content with these only, when
! 1t becomes the fruit of the growth OF
/ the loftier character it is not unrea-
sonable to expect when that refined
sense of civilization is matured.
And, could we but lend silent ear
to all else save the virtues that such
laws as these would inaugurate into
the Transvaal there would be scant, if
any, cause to probe further to detect
| the cause Of resistance, or to determine
for what the Beers are warning; but
too vehment is the voice of justice
sounding upon our reason to permit of
such sacrifcial Indifference.
The Transvaal government, however,
are not exempt from blame, and can,
in a certain measure, only exhonorate
itself from such blame by acceding to
the letter of agreement known as the
treaty of 1881, which is one of the
bones of contention; but this they have
not done.
A government, we allow, has prop
err right to form and maintain its. own
laws; but not when such laws are ex-
orbitant, unreasonable, and act as a
menace to human laws, or to the seri-
Gus detriment of the justifiable rights
of another nation lest we would mis-
lead, we emphasize that a government
owns the privilege to construct laws
and conditions suitable to its dictates,
but it is not fitting to presume that
The boundaries of such laws should be
within the circle of justice and not
overspread a field simply because it
holds no regard for the line of circum-
scription. 1t should not excite censure
nor undue antagonism when one gov
eminent rises against its neighbor,
when the laws of that government are
calculated to jeopardize its justified
claims.
That the Transvaal government de-
| mand not few hardships Of the Brit
ish and other foreign subjects is no
mere ,delusion.
For example, the number of years a
foreigner is compelled to remain with
| in the Transvaal domains before citi-
zenship can be obtained is undoubtedly
exorbitant; such length of servitude
| is not as the Beers allege, to enable
them to have none but a higher re-
sponsible class of inhabitants within
its borders, but to extrude a faction
| with capital, who, in the opinion of the
Beers, would share the benefits de-
rived from the products with which
the territory abounds. Hence, it can
be readily observed that the Beers have
ventured, and that wisely If they would
gain the worlds sympathy, to gloss
over this particular demand by pre-
| Stunning upon the aid and favor that evil
dent regard for higher moral citizen
ship would lend; a visor as it were,
thus shielding from disinterested OBJ
servers, the real feature of their atti
tude, behind which turks a selfish,
grasping and gluttonous greed.
We take it that the world is too well
versed and schooled in the ways and
guiles of human nature to doubt that
| Misrepresentation exist, let the facts
| be viewed from what ever standpoint
one may; and although multefarious
sophistical claims are the inheritance
| of both factions, but few of the more
evident structures can go undetected,