The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-03-15
RUDYARD KIPLING,s SUMMING UP
UP OF BRITISH DISLOYALTY
IN SOUTH AFRICA
LoYALIsTs MADE TO SUFFER
Secret Enemy of the Country Re-
spected I'm Property Rights
by the BOers-Plea for
COIOnials.

| klpling cables q long account of British
| disloyalty, which he calls ''the sin Of
| witchcraft." The burden Of his COM
| plant is that British civil authorities in
| Cape Town vince at semi-treasonable
acts. and to quote his own words: ''the
| government will take care it does not
| pay anyone to be loyal" He says:
| THE loyallst on the border has his
| house ripped inside out by Beers or
rebels, or both; the disloyalists farm is
respected, and in return he supplies the
enemy with food, horses and informa-
| ton. His risk is small. He may pos
| sibly-but not if his friends can stop it
| be arrested on charge of treason. He
may then be sent down country to be
tried by a sympathetic jury. He hopes,
and not without reason, to have his
farm restored to him after he has I'M
dergone some absurdly inadequate pun
| ishment. Meanwhile the loyalist's piano
is lying wireless on the veranda photo
graphs of his house show the rooms az
though cyclones had met to wrestle
there his fiocks and herds are gone, and
the baby linen is lying on the dung heap.
He and his family crawl into Cape Town
! in overpacked trains, and get what con-
| SOldllOn tHey can from singing bFllOnS
Never Shall Be Slaves on the platform.
Then do Messrs Kruger and Steyn begin
| correspondence with Lord Roberts as to
! the atrocities committed on q VirtuouS
! population by brutal and licenttou2
soldiery.
NOT ALL CREAM
1.-THE loyalists declare that properly
handled open disloyalty could be re-
duced TO a negotiable quantity. What.
then they demand, is the sense Of Gre
ating and propplng and supporting the
thing as you created and propped and
| supported the Transvaal till 1t bit you!
They have a certain amount of reason
on their side and it may as we'll be set
out to defeat, TO delay, to evade and
! nullify the workings of a Just punish
ment at first cautiously but later made
bold by liberation, with an insolent care
lessness of security, to preach sedit1on
| under guise of abject loyalty. To malign
| unscrupulously and to lie Indignantly
| and with knowledge among an ignorant
! people is a merry and profitable game
| While it endureS. The players, however,
| do not see, or, busy with their small in
trigues, will not realize that for each man
whose neck they save arises another and
yet another desiring nothing less than
their necks. 1t is a brutal way to put 1t,
but things are not all cream and honey in
| Cape Town !ust now, and ] confess II
| gives me cold creeps to watch these
smooth talking, smiling men explaining
to their intimates as they have explained
| these ten years past, how this and that
will be softened down in the interest Of
| some imperiled REBEL how help will
| come from here and support from another
| quarter, and how little In any case to be
| feared is the British government.
1.-THE home government is weak and of
many kinds; they are present, omnipres-.
emit; they maintain intimate relations
! with all sides; with the front and the
! far more important back front, which
reigns at Pretoria"
COLONIALS SEE 1T.
The colonial troops see this disloyalty
| which the government does not publish,
and Mr. Kipling voices their feelings IN
| these words:
Now men who are used to dust in their
| food do not care to have it thrown in
their eyes Five, six and seven thousand
miles away anxious young communities
! are waiting for word of their men.
| No detail of their doings goes unrecorded
| by the big dailies, whose wrappers you
| have never opened, or by the little cheap
| newspapers with the patent insideS.
Move a mixed colonial contingent fifty
| miles here, across country, and Winni-
| peg, Quebec, Canterbury, Wellington and
! Brisbane are also moved over, and, above
that, they will write to their papers.
! These mems letters will be read and re-
| read at crossroads stores, In railroad
| roundhouses in Wayside dosseTs' camps,
| at up-country race meetings, at little Ma
sonic lodges, along the Wharves of big
exporting houses and the clubs of all the
white mans world. Do you see, there
FORE that the long enduring scorn, the
terse, sticking contempt, the happy cpl
! tibet spat out In a dusty camp, to turn
up double-leaded in a journal OF S0,OOO
circulation on the other side Of the world,
will not come from England? The col
| ony will be branded by her own brethren,
| by the open-air men who have voted reg
| ularly since their majority, and who own
| the houses they live in. She dare not
say that they have been bought by the
! capitalists, Influenced by the press, or
preiudiced by their insuar training. 1t
is her own caste in punchayet that will
strip the colony OF her caste. She will
be left with her climate and her geo
| graphical advantages, but her place and
our peoples will go over to little Natal,
while her honor is trailed around the
world at the heels Of these returning
horsemen. This is unjust-bitterly and
! cruelty unjust.
DISLIKE THE MEDICINE.
at developed the forecast at some
length to a South African, and there are
no words to paint his extreme objection
to this medicine. He was quite uncon-
soled by the reminder that the Cretans
| have not yet recovered from the effect of
a hasty hexameter of old days, and that
the Laodiceans have passed into litera-
ture.' 1t struck him as a piece Of hideous
| brutality, for he loved his land with pas
| sion-you see, she is his own land, in
agony and great torture-and it cuts him
to the soul that her name should be
soiled. He says that she has more loyal
lists fighting in the field than Natal; that
there are thousands of men and women,
their relatives, fighting on the other side,
| their hearts torn in three pieces, who
still bide loyal. Is 1t not he asked,
enough that when peace comes the dis
] loyalists will be petted and raised to
honor, without this last shame upon him
| and his?
There is one way out of the horror,
| and one only. The men who have be-
fouled the colony are known. They go
abroad No man lays hand upon them.
| They have become careless in speech and
this is important indeed; at the proper
time these men can be made the means
| of saving the colony"