The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-05-30
SAkISB URY,S FIRM WORDS.
Important Announce ment Regarding Governments Policy fm South Africa.

| Governments Policy in South Africa. l London, May 29.-Lord Salisbury who was entertained st dinner this
 evening by the City of London Conser- vative association, made an important
 announcement regarding the govern
 ment's South African policy.
 "The stop the war party have used
 my name" said the premier fin sup
 port of their ideas by stating that I
 promised there should be no annexa- tion of territory, no annexation of gold | fields. I never gave pledge. I never
 meant to give a pledge. Loud cheers.) ! I stated a simple historical fact. We
 were accused of going to war for lust of gold and territory. It was one of | those atrocious calumnies which, under
 the favorlhg influence of Dr. Leyds,
 spread itself over the press of Europe. | Nothing could be more untrue. We went to war to abate oppression | of the queens subjects in the Transvaal
 and because of our remonstrances being
 met by an insulting ultimatum, to which, if the queens government had submitted, her power, not only in South | Africa, but over her colonies and depen- dencies would have been at an end. We | were forced into war by the action of our opponents.
 ITO say that because we repudiated the greed of territory we therefore l bound ourselves never to annex any ter
 ritory is a most ridiculous minconstruc- | tion. I dwell on this point because this
 matter of annexation is about to become a burning question.
 We have made a tremendous sacri- flee of blood and treasure in this con- flict. There are misleading prophets, whose action bulks as large in the col-
 umns of the newspapers as the action of more influential and powerful people. who n1islead the unlucky rulers of the Transvaal to continue resistance for beyond the time when all resistance has ceased to be even possibly successful. These menare perpetually pressing us to make some conditions, to offer some ar ranged stipulations that shall leave a shred of independence to the two re- publics.
 Our only certainty of preventing
 recurrence of this fearful war is to in
 sure that never again shall such vast
 accumulations of ornaments occur and that not a shred of the former inde-
 pendence of the republic shall remain.
 (Cheering.) We are not yet at the end
 of the war but I shall venture to lay it down as a primary condition of any future settlement that precautions will be taken of such a character that such a war will never occur again. Of course what measures will be necessary 1t Is impossible at this moment to deter
 mine, because that depends largely upon the action and temper of those with whom we have to deal.
 T have already intimated that their resistance has gone beyond the limit to which resistance could wisely go It iS not for us to criticise their actions in that what they are pleased to call self defence; but they have acted so every bitterness created by the war and every severance of classes and races have been stimulated by every measure they have taken; and so they go on. It will also be our duty to protect those native races who have been so sorely af- ticted and at the same time to conduct their policy, that so far as possible there shall be a reconciliation and that every one shall be a happy member of the British empire''
 After the master of the rolls, Lord Aver, stone had proposed "The Imperial Forces" Lord Salisbury again rose, holding q paper in his hand, and said: "l find that Lord Roberts has occupied Johannesburg. This announcement was followed by wild dis play of enthusiasm, the company cheering for 'Bobs" and singing God Save the Queen Lord Salisbury later in the eve ning, when proposing "rhe City of London Conservative Association" referred to the glorious news" received and said: "One thing we have learned from this war is that everything depends upon the general"