The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-15

! their condition belng perfect me reason
! which this mine oWDef gave was ma il 'Gs :,
/ Inspector did not get the money ne Wouia
! quite unnecessarily have every fire out for
| the day in order TO inspect which would
| cost nearer a thousand pounds than ten,
and eventually eat up all the profits Of the
| business and something more. II was re-
! corded b, tho canitaIist sip1pIy as a matter
| ~ -cconor,, n choice between two evils.
| The same man was in The habit Of bribing
! No ..,.ass irs,o,tors-. IN Ier his native
,,.or,.,,s',, oIo,d TI,is ,,.se alec dono to save
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/ lhe cdpldllsl IS 10 plalhe IoI me uIioei
/ system II seems rather pecuiiar 'oue
! OF ethlcs. but the reaueF can se''ie 'n'1
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/ IT, put MS contention throughout IS thdt
/ the stories OF this are exaggerated, ana
! that after all things are not so very had.
As 10 this IL is all siuuIv a matter OF
| evidence and tho rcador after carefully
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! nave 10 Nelsh us comparative merits ana
| form his own opinion.
ms historian places no laith ID Midl ne
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/ Englisb nrass in contb AFRICA In rayard
/ tn ,bo agitation In favor ~ freeing Cane
( Colony ana the Roer RenuhIics from lire.
/ imperiaI control he saws that he sees no
| reason why sucb a movement is not legiti-
mate and allowable. or why il should be
! considered treason After this he makes
the blunt declaration that the English
press in South Africa was subsidized. and
almost in the same breath condemns news
paper articles stirring up rebellion in the
Transvaal" one Of which reads as follows:
No,tirr E. es.;er tIsn 70 rig ius;ice in the
Trarsyaal if only the interested parties are Of the
beloved burgher flock The willy koeiscr doubtless
backed in influential qumtcls appealed to that ex-
oeHent Institution ne 'ilsh court win a result
.:.a' iNS s,'u ~ li'l va NJ,
Incl Tho re,olt,. il, The ,.4so ~ the atbcr ,fT,nd
ers Ii is his sort of thing that breeds contempt
for the very name Of justice as administered in the
TraisvaaL u viii soon become impossible to get
b"'' Puil'''u no 'n"'l'i what MS 'i'"t.
II these things were true, certainly there
ought to have been a protest somewhere,
and TO an American the natural medium
seems to be the newspapers After quot
ing several other articles OF the same
tenor Mr.. Hobson expresses surprise that
anyone should have been indignant be-
cause the author was driven out of the
hot-headed Beers made brutal speeches
against Englishmen no notice should have
been taken Of them. because they did not
represent the general sentimental the Bocr
people. To a casual observer it seems
rather as II he we're SAYING that what is
treason in an Engishman is not treason
in a Boer. especially when the English
man is not citizen Of the Boer Repub-
lie, but only sojourner therein. The point
is not quite clear enough to satisfy the
average mind. One Of the most serious
charges made is that against Sir Alfred
Miner 1t is alleged that he deliberately
mutilated a despatch Of President Steyu,
which Is given in full. the mutilated por-
tions printed in italics. It can readily
be seen that the excelsior changes the
whole force Of the writer's statements.
There is much interesting information
In the book which must be dismissed with
only passing comment: but in the main
the author hardly succeeds in establishing
the fact that the whole war was unneces-
sarv. unjust. and brought on for INSULT
cient cause. He does not quite contradict
the evidences Of Outlander grievances. nor
does he at all prove that Boer civilization
is better for South Africa than English
rule would be. There has no doubt been
more or less eyaegeration in the reports
Of Roer outraEes Dutch conspiracies and
tho lilo b,,+ +ba English n,b1io win rrob
sbIv eticL 70 tba idaa tbst ,vbera tbare
is g., ,,,,,rb s,,ol,, +ba-a r,ret no eo,ns
sra "a ,ba toe,ir,or, ~ 5ie{p+areetad
Dersore Who have boen in south Africa
cannot he entirely disreyarded II is en-
Tbatica1Iv Mr. Hohson's oninion thar Eng
iieb government in the Transvsal will
turn ort IN he hoss-rIrla under
tSa ,nid,nco 81 syndics+ee and
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the affairs of their own tribes, and have
in some instances made i,. very appreciate
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