Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-10
THEY WANT JUST LAWS.

AAAAA WAN OOOA AAWSs
From tn Westminster Posts = am IN American citizen hold . brief
from Great Britain an wha say In regard to the situation in South Africa is
'S"9 Tus sp "a . Joa o% aas. e sns omft q States .ess . :, understand Ter t. r% n sssssnsax.
Mr. Hammond, IS everyo one knows. went to the Transvaal in 1891 intending
has taken a active part in the affairs oesouth Africa from which country he as
moveme which had for Its object the overthrow o President kruger. Not
sase to say that at or ref anns mov sueeaf% eontsmn sspa' amv Nor cooa asmm q terrtory.
We, W. did a, not want to g in an possess thu iand under n flag. o. the on
movement, Engnshmen. Americans and everybody, took a n oath of anesiancs
gov r%aa t. unde r. a new wI president instead Of The corrupt ohgarshy which e,
DR. Jameson, a raid which a made against our advice and protest. and which
we a II severely condemned"
UNJUST LAWS CAME LATER.
why did III outandns go into the Transvaal If the iaws were SO unjust?'
Mr. Kruger in 1884, invited British capitalists to invest in mining enterprises, re
eo@rssua 70 n a. ~ s,saa 1saa, to II n complied ,mmp. a.ns un sn.ro ,nsss' r. " > oat.
landers and Ber farms. otherwise worthless, were purchased at high sums
cause they had neither capital nor engineering experience Under the stmu-
Beers. Repressve and retroactive legislation "a adopted. thu terms Of b
tanning the franchise were changed SO as to make it practically impossible or
the outianders evert o obtain electoral rights. and " endanserins the per
OF thesel laws sled to the formation of the reform committee. which, as 1 have
which were especially opposed to identification asn aa wi with British interests be-
Venezuela question:"
JAMESON RAID NOT ENDORSED.
DO tn reforners uphold the Jameson raid?"
ION the contrary, his action was in defiance of our notice to him not to
start pon hist advsed expedition. W e secured hi release by surrendering all
III arms which leftu us poweress for further movement M COST us in me no.
nearly sa@ooo lie not oym made success imposdb1eby his precipitae action.
rest of the world. Had the revolution been started within tn rransvaal. a
Boersth themselves There was at that time a large percentage of the Beers
disafected toward the corrupt oigarchy of Pretoria n they would have
given the reformers their moral support if nothing else. Dr. Jameson's &C.
ton anenated this sympathy"
According to Mr.. Hammond, the members Of the reform committee. who
we're arrested in a body, we're induced to plead guilty to a technical ofense
through false representations from he Boer government. ID the punishment.
judge imported from another district entenced the four ieadei o oeatn M
der what he called the "Roman-Dutch law" The execution was rendered m
possible psa as. owing gIns. to tn the s general protest ssra from til N, noe F1,m ansmss sss ,s has w Ne "a a.
ergetc efforts of this government in his " behalf excited thu NV OF the
British prisoners. All the parties were finally released on the payment Of 12S-
900 for each of the four leaders. which vas openlyt taken IS ransom money.
A GREAT BoER CONSPIRACY.
Mr.. Hammond talks most interestingly OF the conditions which ld- to the
Boer war. saying that tn Beers ont contemplated a conspiracy to drive
the English from South Africa n establish Ber supremacy from tn Fam
best river to the Cape. They had been waiting for England to become involved
the urhmatum which he Beers finally submitted to Great Britain. was to
built u =.
England could prepare for its defense was too greatt to be resisted by those h
did lot rightly estimate either British v%or or British resources President
fighting, among other things" continued MI. Hammond, for the establishment
of thu principle that there should be no taxation without representation. She
learned this lesson from us in III wa Of independence IN III English colonies
OF south s Arr ra ,neae rs "a n4 tha sam u e4srns 'm The eJ sne rusa a. M both tnT Taees, n" uad Un IN
the parliament n in the courts Of Justice in hi British colonies of South
Africa. England is fighting among other causes for the extension of this pmn-
cle throughout South Africa generally"
GRIEVANCES OF THE oUTLANDERs.
MI. Hammond cites at some length the grievances of the outlanders, who
comprise twothrds of hi population, and h went to he Transyaal by *
est mining center IN M world. Inc n IA enriched a country hat a
bankrupt. The oulanders paid ninetenths of the taxes but were allowed 10
allegiance 20 all other countries. after which they we're to serve fourteen years
on probation, n during that time they were liable to military duy. After the
tot e which rhW he readed ~ naude e s.o that - ' rscSue the sanc u% -" -
he president n executive council. Such regulations Is these,c combined with
had the right to expela n auen AM conascate his nronertv without trial that
free speech a prohibited. that III Dutch language only was taught in
schools maintained " money paid by thu outanders tn numerous other laws
equally unfair, led to hi agitation in the Transvaal The prevalent official
England is not fighting for the gold mines Of the TransvaaL" said Mr..
Hammond. in conclusion. 9TH fac of III matter is thai go per en- OF the
shares Of the mining companies of the Transvaal are heeld IN thu continent
outside OF England, and connscation of such vested Interests by England would