New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-01-23
HALE AND THE Beers.
rvo.FIFTHs TO RULE THREE-FIFTHs
~ THE NAME OF REPUBLICANIsM


r. the Editor Of The Tribune
CT. Senator HaIe's impassioned but not In
,ort,a1 speech in the Senate yesterday demands
: -sbuke from every true Republican HIS as
. l..,ssto,s are not founded in truth. The Beers
are not struggling to preserve republican gov
a-un,ent but an oligarchy controlled BY one
- THAT oIirarchy refused 10 three-fifths %
.on,,,aton OF the TransvaaI the representa-
&C. nd responsibIe government that our Amer
ton fathers fought and bIed for. and won rom
pr,tatr She saw her great error. and now
Grants precisely those rights to her colonies IN
Guiding Cape Colony and Natal
This was the one request the British Govern
mont made for it's people who hVed IN tne
7rransvaaI viz that theB should hdrs Rs same
RANTS that Britain had granted 70 me DHieh
Beers ia cape Colony A pledge &c TINS eHect
y,as given bv Mr.. KRUGER and the other Trans
.a1 commissioners in 1881 and renewed IN
1884 (See the English Blue Book Of August
%. 1S99) This pledge Mr.. KRUGER has broken
Britain asked no more than that this pledge De
kept. and in reply Mr. KRUGER declares war
Great Britain is now fighting TO maintain the
rights and liberties for all her colonies which
We Americans. forced her to surrender TO Us IN
1873. and which our fathers then established
as the great monumental event in govern
mental progress OF the eighteenth century
Sixty years later Britain became convinced OF
her grave error and then granted 20 all her
great colonies the very rights and liberties she
denied to US in 1776.
The Transvaal called itself republicans It
was not and is not republic. 1t taxed and yet
denied representation to three-hfths OF the
white or European population which il taxed
Britain had granted IN Cape Colony equal
rights to all it's BOer population with its own
sons. She asked the same rights for her own
people in the TransvaaI This was refused, ex-
cept on conditions which Britain. one OF the
foremost champions Of human rights. ought not
and could not accept.
No doubt the Beers are brave people and
fight we'll. So are our Indians brave and tight
we'll But do we therefore allow 100000 OF them
to make laws for and tax 10000 Of our own
blood? Never. The Beers of the Transvaal are
too much behind this age of equal rights and
civil liberty to rule and govern a larger number
Of the AnglO-Saxon, allowing him voice
The plain fact that what they call republic Is
no republic-that they have no sympathy with
the aims of republic. and wholly Tepudiate the
fundamental principles which are the fOunda-
ton stones of every true Tepublic-demonstrates
the absurdity Of man so able and eminent as
Senator Hale allowing himself to utter this. an
impassioned and unfair speech. in the Senate OF
the United States. 1t is pitiful TO him rank
ing himself on the side of the traitors to the
great principles of equal rights before the law.
of no taxation without representation, and up
holding one man power that dictates decisions
to the courts, and If they disObey, revekes the
authority of the courts OF removes the judges
Senator Hale's conduct is not wise nor r.
spectacle. His speech smites the best efforts OF
the age for human welfare. and encourages
ignorant and backward people TO oppose and
fight against the improvement OF the world,
which is the sure and certain aim OF the great
majority of the AnglO-saxon peoples every
where. which they strive after. and which they
above all others reach.
Has Senator Hale read what Mr.. Theodore
Sehreiner of a Boer family, brother OF Olive
Sehreiner and of the present Premier OF Cape
Colony has said of the Beers OF the Transvaal
preparing and constantly plotting for war for
seventeen years, as published in The London
Times OF December 1 last? Or has he read
the article by Mr.. Spencer Wilkinson on Moral
Factors of the War in a late number Of The
National Review? Here are the words OF a
fair able and statesmanlike man. who sums up
the questions Of the conflicting States follows:
The Beers are fighting for, their right to exclude
intention to break up the body polite which Great
Britain. with infinite palms, has fer century been
building up around them, a structure under the
Brtan IS fightng to MAINTAIN that structure and
to assert The right Of her people 70 place in The
Boer or Dutch inhabitants of the British colonies
The historian will ask not only what were
the rights and wrongs OF the moment but what
each of the States stood for in the world. The
answer will be that the Beers stood for ignorance,
for prejudice. for race hatred and for misgovern-
ment, and thar Great Britain stood for fair play.
for freedom and for Justice
If this is to be the verdict OF history. and f.
as I verify believe, the facts support and con-
firm this verdict, then Senator Hale has low
cred the dignity of the Senate OF our United
States and uttered words calculated TO mislead
our people. ]. P. c.
New-York Jan. 20. 1900.