Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-04

on; the same cond.t tons as their white
AS result, there are many /
thousands of natives under English rule |
who are not only Intelligent and educat- I
ed, but who have property, and the ma
tives very largely support their own
schools and preachers and churches
Could there be a more positive cons
trast than the above laws and admin
istration indicate? Add to all this the
brutality, especially of Transyaal of
ficials, toward natives. One OF the
many instances is the treatment which
Gen. Cronje recently gave to a native
chieftainess and her people. In a let
ter written by one of his own men.
Which he read TO her, without giving
her any opportunity of reply or rebuff
tai, he fined her nearly 500. and gath
cred together thirteen of her advisors
and logged them, giving to- each TWEEN
ty-siN lashes, and when each one re-
fused to say thank YOU, another lash
was added. They had done nothing
wrong themselves, but he claimed
ought to have advised her better. The
case was taken to the courts and the
judge decided that the fine should be
returned, which has never been done.
And Gen. cronje became the chief ma
tive commissioners, and the TWO men
who conducted the logging We're made
special ENJOYS To study the conditions
of the natives in that section. Every
black man i'll Africa and every we'll
wisher of the black man in America
and elsewhere ought to pray for the
triumph of British arms In South At
lfrica. The Immediate occasion of the
war was the treatment of the Outland-
ers in the Transvaal. The Transvaal4
has sbeensa government administered on
the basis of preference instead OF
principle. Under British rule there is
absolute equality of principle and pro-
istection to all white men. and under
THAT rule the Beers have advanced IN
\ Intelligence and wealth. There have
/ been many inter-marriages and If IT
| had not been for the organized consptr-
| acy at Pretoria, determined to check
1.-THE advance of right principles in gov
eminent as, applied to all white men,
4 Irrespective of race or language, the
\ Briton and the Boer would have had
no war and together they would nave
4 risen and prospered in all respects.
4 We have only to read list of the
aglaws now in force in the TransNaal as
affecting the outlanders to understand
4 how irrespective the conflict has been
i and that sooner or later there must be
4 a change in these laws or revolution
Il in some form.
4 Take the law of franchise. or rather
Y unfranchise, An outlander must be 40
years of age: he must own property; a
955,najority of The burghers in his district
must express in writing their desire
4 that he be made a burgher;; he must
4 not be objected to by the state secre-
lstary or the president. and as a! climax
Unparalleled in civilized government,
This son born inthe Tsransvaal takes the
& political status of his father.
i These laws disfranchise for all time
4 everybody iii the Transvaal5 except the
"a o3.00O voters claimed by the burghers
4 and their descendants. IL IS to be re-
& Iinembered also that the burghers COM
a mence voting All is. so8that a very large
igper cent Of the burghers who control
4 that country are boys utterly incompe-
Il tent in Intelligence or experience IL
II form a judgment on great issues. AND
4 it must he remembered that nine
: ltauths of all the Boer voters in. the
s HrransNaal are men of not only limited
S Intelligence as to civil government. bu
, are dominated by narrow prejudice'
= Views Il. is the 210.000 outlanders. tn
. great majority of whom have gone Y
that healthful cline TO Il permanent
{ \ home, whose wrights are outraged. \
! will require from thirty tosfifty year
! to dig out the gold in the immediate
II vicinity of Johannesburg, and viii
n Just government there Will be at leas
3OO, 900 citizens in that section alone II
!, a few years. to say nothing of the Erea
. centers OF wealth Which will be opene'
!, lsup. And to seek to justify the absolut
= disfranchisemen of this great ma SIS Q
5 enterprising and Intelligent peopl
n from having any voice in the civil gov
= eminent of the country is a monu
e a mental absurdity.
Z The TransvaaI sealed its doom as
q permanent government in its presen
e form in August. 1895, when 1t thre,
al aside by Vote Of is to G in the uppe
dslraad petition containing over $500
names acknowledged to be genuin,
lie asking for some slight notification
a the franchise The debate on that es
is Inhibition Of ignorance as to the fir.
il. principles of civil justice and Of MAJ
la rowness of vision that is appallin
a Two or three men stood UP manfull
al but led by President Kruger, the pet
sol ton was thrown out, After that
IL eyer there was "a spot on earth Whel
d. rebellion was justifiable on the part
ri the aggrieved 1t was the Transyaa
ne The jameson raid and other even
s. which finally led To the war We're on
IN incidents on the surface indicating Il
IS seriousness of the irrepressible col
ne tiict; incidents may be the occasion, b,
ne never the cause Of revolutions. Say I
10 that can be said against mining cor
$ panies and their methods, or on u
~ pathetic side in favor Of the Beers, II
ne ing aa they please on their farm
& making the natives do their work, p
y lin all possible conditions to the co
!. trary on both sides; there will yet r
= main the Overwhelming fact that in ]
- civilized country on earth would 500
: grown men. represent an intellige
y and aggressive Anglo-Saxon populate
of 100000 people. conducting enormo
= business interests. subject to the t
~ ranny of an oligarchy such az has rul
=. at Pretoria. The responsibility of II
!, war is upon President Kruger and /
! advisors. England, thru Sir Afr
-, Miner, laying aside all other issue
~ asked that there be five years fra
Or chise: that the first raad, which is :