New-York tribune., 1900-01-03
New-York. Dec. =. 1893
THE REAL UNDER DOG"
NOT THE BOERs But THE OPPRESSED OUT

LANDERS-
To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: read with interest your able articles the
TransvaaI question I also read the letters from
your correspondeat+sorn OF them very amusing
reading. by the way; many OF them illogical and
inconsistent One writer says that hs always feels
like sympathizing with the under dog IN fight
ard gives this as a reason for taking the side Of
the Beers. Now, 1 always thought that the Out
laaders the under dog in the controversy
and that Britain taking the side OF the under
dog" and trying 10 get evenhanded justice for him
That is my view of the question. and I think The
Tribune has shown this clearly all along, and
made it 50 plain that those with the most obtuse
inteIects might understand it.
In your interview with John Hays Hammond
you showed the grievances under which the Out
lande-s have groaned for years-their very Ian
guage being prohibited in the law courts and the
educational institutions OF the country Chief
among these grievances was the fact that. though
the OutIauders paid nine-tentEs OF the taxes and
constituted threefourths OF the population OF the
country. they had absolutely no voice IN the ex-
penditure Of the money OF in the making OF the
laws by which they governed. This IS the
very question which caused the American colonsts
10 revolt against the British 177S They claimed
that there should be taxation without repre-
sentation- There is no parallel in the two cases,
but exactly the reverse The Outlanders in this
case take the place Of the American patriots Of
1H6, and the Beers the place of the British who
taxed the coonists without representation The
ONNoI0eAS are not only N the place or the under
doe' Dut more than that, they are absolutely in
the right (Which ought 10 have more influence than
any mere positiOn). Moreover, the TransvaaI is
not a republic. but religious oligarchy with no
reiigious liberation. A few rule, and these
men are as absolute and despotie any tyraut in
the world -
As examples of my assertion, witness KRUGER
ana his Council oantshfng OutIanders on suspicion
or some political offence, and fOrbiddlng them 10
return, at the same time cOEfscating their prop
erty 10 the Government. Also, the act Of KRUGER
In removing the Chief Justice OF the country be-
cause certain decision did please him placing
as II were, political dictator the Supreme
court of the land In connection with that take
the Iact that none but Beers allowed TO serve
on a jury, and that the right Of public speaking
was practically abolished policeman having au-
tnority 10 dismiss public meeting his mere
Wnlnn or caprice ask, where Justice lib
etty Tor the Outlander3 IN other words. who was
the under dog?
Along with all those gross cutrages. perhaps the
worst or all was the fact that the Outlanders were
leoaTred from educating their children In the Eng
hsn Ianguage-the language Of their forefathers
ana OF hoerty-but had 10 teach them the Boer
dialect, q seni-barbarOUs jargon. unrecognized by
the nations of the world before the light OF knowi-
edge would be allowed perneate their brains
Think Of all these things and then ask voIIrsa7'
me questions: Are those republican principles? Is
the TransyaaI a republic?
Your readers I think viii see plainly that there
Is no analogy whatever between the struggle bv
the patriots OF 1776 and that OF the Boers now
IN progress. except in the fertile agination OF
one OF your pro-Boer correspondents. J. c.
Brooklyn, Dec. % 1899