The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-06-07
THE END Of INDEPENDENCE
soUrH AFRICAN HEpuBLtcs ARl.
So MORE.
Lord Salisbury Says There Shall Not
Doe shred OF Independence Left
Territory VIII bee Annexted

LONDON, May 2g.-Lord Salisbury,
who was entertained at dinner this eve
cning by the city of London Conserve
tive Association made an important
announcement regarding the Govern
ments South African policy.
The 'stOp-the- war party have used
my name, said the premier in sup
port OF their ideas by stating that /
promised that there should be no annex
alton of territory OF annexation of gold
fields. ! never gave pledge. ! never
meant to give pledge. loud cheers.D
j stated a simple historical fact. We
were accused of going TO war for lust
of gold and territory. IL was one of
those calumnies which, under the favor
ing influences Of Or. Leyds, spread il
self over the press Of Europe
Nothing could be more untrue. We
went to war to abate the oppression of
the Queens subjects of the Transvaal,
and because our circumstances were
met by an insulting ultimatum, to
which, If the Queens government had
submitted, her power, not only in South
Africa, but over her colonies and de-
Tendencies, would have been at an end.
We were forced into a war by the ac-
ton of our opponents. To say that be-
cause we repudiated the greed Of terri
tory we therefore bound ourselves new
or to annex any territory is a most rid
point because this matter OF annexa-
ton is about to become a burning ques-
ton.
1--WE have made tremendous sacri-
flee of blood and treasure i'm this con-
fiict. There are misleading prophets,
whose action is as large in the col
umns of newspapers as the action of
more influential and powerful people,
who mislead the unlucky rulers of the
Transvaal to continue resistance far be-
yond the time when all resistance has
ceased to be even possibly successful
These men are perpetually pressing us
to make some conditions, to offer some
, arranged stipulatiOns that shall leave
a shred of independence to the repub-
lies. Our only certainty of preventing
a recurrence of this fearful war is to
insure that never again shall such vast
accommodations of armament occur, and
that not a shred Of the former indepen-
dence of the republics shall remain.
| (Cheers.)
I'VE are not yet at the end of the
war, but shall venture to lay il down
as a primary condition of any future
settlement that precautions will be TAX
en- Of such a character that such a war
will never occur again. OF course. what
measures will be necessary it is impos-
sible at any moment to determine, be-
cause that depends largely upon the
| action and temper of those with whom
we have to deal.
II have already intimated that their
resistance has gone beyond the limits
/ to which resistance could wisely go. II
is not for us to criticise their action
! in what they are pleased to call self
defense, but they have acted so that ev-
cry bitterness created by the war and
every severance of classes and races
has been stimulated by every measure
they have taken, and so they go on.
ut will also be our duty to protect
those native races which have been SC
/ afflicted and at the same time so &c
conduct our policy that so far as pos
sible there shall be a reconciliation and
that every one shall be a happy member
of the British empire"