The Delawarean., 1900-05-09

charged, and the whole administration
If law is a farce. So far back as 1877
President Burgess, who seems to have
been an honest sort of a man, told the
Volksraad or Boer parliament that he
would rather be a policeman under a
strong government than president of
such republic. 1t is you, you mem
bers of the Raad and Beers, who have
ruined the country, who have sold your
independence for a drink, you have i'll
treated the natives, you have shot them
down, you have sold them into slavery
The whole history of the South Afri q,
Republic has been history of usurpa-
tion, tyranny and intolerance. When
in 1881, the Beers were granted
internal autonomy in the Transvaal
under the superanity of England, SO
that they would not encroach on neigh
boring boundaries, a convention was
held in London between the represen-
tatives of the British government and
the Transvaal At that convention Sir
Hercules Robinson, who acted as presi-
dent, asked the representatives of the
Transvaal. Before annexation had
British subjects complete freedom to
trade in the Transvaal,' to which Paul
Kruger replied, "They were on the
same footing as boughers, that there
was not the slightest difference" Sir
Hercules then said, Presume you will
not object to that continuing?" mo"
said Kruger; There will be equal pro-
lection for everybody" and further, in
reply to remark made by Sir Evilyn
Wood, Kruger added, "And equal privi-
leges. We make no difference. abso-
lutely equal rights between Britisher
and burgher, free trade and equal
privileges And again in 1884 a con-
vention was agreed ion between Great
Britain and the Transvaal. acknowl
edging the independence of the Trans
vaal subject to three conditions That
the Beers should not make treaties
with foreign powers without the con-
sent of the paramount power in South
Africa, e, England, that they should
not make slaves of the native tribes.
and that they guarantee an equal
treatment for all the white inhabitants
as respects taxation. Article XIV.
1884 Constitution reads thus: "All
persons other than natives conforming
themselves to the laws of the South
African Republic will not be subject in
respect to their persons or property or
in respect of their commerce and in
dustry ito amy taxes, whether general
or local other than those which are or
may be imposed upon the citizens of
said republic"
AT the time the convention was
signed in 1884, the franchise was OBJ
tainable after two years residence.
They have prolonged the period of resi-
dence from two to five years and SO ON,
till they have made fifteen years, or
seven and half times as long as when
the convention was signed and Kruger
has reserved the right to veto any out
lander being placed on the register
even after the fifteen years residence,
if he thinks he is for any reason OBJ
jectionable.
Outlanders have bought and pur-
chased sixty per cent of all the prop
erty of the Transvaal, and ninety per
cent of tine taxes are levied on them.
There is no such thing as freedom in
the Transvaal and when application
to the convention of 1881, Kruger said
that If the outlandel- wanted their
rights they would have ito fight for
them. And he had been for years pre-
pairing for a fight, for the object and
desire of Kruger and his confereres is
to GUST Englishmen and Americans out
of South Africa and take hold of their
properties. 1t is mot to be wondered
at that the heroic son of an heroic
father, Signo Rcceothe Garebaldi
should offer his services TO fight for
England and to declare that he has no
sympathy with the Beers. Or that the
United States Senate should cquelch
as it did the resolution of sympathy
with the Beers proposed by tine Jingo..
lists. ANTI. .JINGO.
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