The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-07-24
TUESDAY, july 81, 1900.
THE THANSVAaB WAT. AND ITS
END

Events in the East have so absorbed the
the Transvaal are quite overlooked and
are almost forgotten. This may very well
be so. for the war in the Transvaal is
practically ended. We may continue 10
hear for =. few months of cruptfons OF
Beers into the British lines. of the occa-
sional destruction Of a railroad bridge or
of the capture Of some Of the British sup
ply wagons, but the war as a war is over
and will soon be ended. even as 4 guerrilla
war Great Britains complications with
China viii no doubt encourage the Boecs
to hold on for some little time Yet, but
the encouragement they receive from that
VIII be temporary only, and the Inevitable
is near at hand
Many people think that there will be
lasting guerrilla war. and they instance the
centuries during which the Swiss kept Up
their resistance in their mountain Businesses
by a guerrilla warfare against the Austrian.
But there are really no points of resem-
blance between the two cases. Austria
pursued the Swiss with all the cruelty and
vindicativaness of middle age methods She
hung drew ana quartered wherever the
Swiss fell into her hands and the Swiss
well knew they had nothing TO look for
from her hut death and confiscatiCn: but
England pursues the Beers with The sword
in one hand and the olive branch in the
other She tells them, and they are begin
ming TO find out that she means what she
says, that she has no idea, of prosecuting
or Furnishing them. but all that she re-
ouires OF them is to settle down peacefully
upon their farms and lead the lives of
good citizens. when they Shall share at once
in all of the blessings OF English citizen
ship. The Beers are sore and angry and re-
ser,tful now, ana they are little SLOW in ac-
ceptIng her terms. hut the result is :nevi:a-
bic. Time makes The result certain. Each
Hsoer will begin to ask himself more and
more each day the question, what is the
sense of further resistance? The indepen-
dence OF his country is h0pelessly lost, and
guerrilla warfare is a vain endeavor, and
he can have peace and prosperity by sim
ply deslsting from an armed resistance.
What took place in the South al the end
of our Civil War foretokens NTH certainty
what viii happen in Africa Il Is not pos
sIble for the Beers TO have mora savage
feelings OF resentment than the people Of
the South had when the war ended, and if
there had been a suspicion amongst our
people that the war was TO be continued
by persecution and confscaton we should
have had a mountain guerrilla warfare as
lasting and as intense as any that ever
prevailed But the common sense of our
people taught them that when they laid
down their arms the war would be at al
end; consequently when General Lee sur
rendered, !: absolutely ended everything in
the nature of war upon their part The
Beers will soon see the thing in the same
high, in which we saw it and Will soon give
the thing up. kruger thinks the English
want TO send him TO St Helena, while al
that they want is, that ne shall so to his
darn and behave himself ike 2 good citi'
zen. As soon as he finds this out ne viii
t,ear no more of resistance from Kruger