The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-05-06
mr.. Crane on be CransOaaI OAR

says: THE taxes in the TransvaaI are
levied on the rich and not on the poor.
me U1riander who earns from SIS TO
500 per week is only taxed $3.50 per en-
num- Wages, at the Kimberley mines.
under Rhodes q Co and the British gov
eminent are less by One-half than those
OF the TranSVaal mines
The johannesburg capitalists have de-
clared in print that So soon as Britain has
annexed the TransVaal, wages RNill be
lowered 40 per cent. In the Transvaal,
Sunday labor is prohibited and the au-
thorues nne any employer who permits
IT. In Kimberley, under the British flag
the mines are kept going seven days a
week.
In the TransvaaI the working dav for
both black and white men is eight hours
by law, while at Kimberley black men
are worked twelve hours a day
In kimberley what is called the com
pound system is in force for COlOred men.
This is slavery by another name. The
Transvaal government will not permit
this system.
at the meeting of the South African
Chartered company the other day Earl
Grey said that our (the British govern
ment would support the company in the
introduction of native (biacl0 and Asiatic
yellow labor because of its 'cheapness'
as compared with white or British labor"
Motive For the War.
The real motive. for the war against
these brave pioneers is founded IN Eng
lish greed, English cupidity and English
dishoDOr. Mr.. Labouchere, a member of
the British parliament, in London Truth
says;
we ought to have consented to arbi-
tratlOn as suggested by President Kruger.
The only reason we did not was that
any independent investigation would have
blown to the winds the fabricationS of
the South African league and of the
Transvaa1 mine owners, which were cir
culated by Mr.. Chamberlain in order 10
arouse the passions Of Englishmen at
nome TO war point
Mr.. Frederick Harrison, one of the fore
most men Of England, in letter TO Lord
Salisbury, published in the London Chron-
icle last August, saws:
From nine years to seven. from seven
to i've, from one demand of the Outland-
ers to another, the Beers have given way.
They have already conceded the whole Of
the original demands made upon them
and have even added mOre-the impress
sion that 1t IS not concession of claims
which IS sought from the republic, but
submission, humiliation and loss of indie
pendence.
1T is a war Of naked aggression, war
wherein the Beers viii not yield without
desperate struggle and after bloody
cOmbatS-a war wherein many true and
patriotic Englshmen devoutly trust that
the. Beers may not be ultimately
And these utterances might be multi
piled, by the most loyal Englishmen, who
look at this war Of aggression as a rob-
berry, as millions Of the loyal people I'm
the United States look at the war IN the
philippines.
In every struggle for freedom since this
republic was founded we have extended
our sympathy. Senators tunbled over
each other to give them the glad hand
and make speeches for freedom and
against the tyrant. 1t is left for this
Republican administration to deny TO
these brave Beers the sympathy which
we have extended to others under iimilar
circumstances.
Had we at the outset of this war in
timated that We would look upon the de-
structiOn of the BOer republic with dis
favor it would have ceased long since.
but the reason why the present executive
cannot protest is that we are engaged
in the same Wretched business in the
Philippines. CHAS. CRANE