Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1900-04-07

equal taxes, and an untrammeled
press and unrestricted travel. This
contract the Transvaalers have
repeatedly violated. and as in n
private contract, the parties must
return to the conditions that prevailed
before the compact. The Raad has
passed the Alien Expulsion Act, has
suppressed the newspapers, gives no
right of trial by jury of peers but
all jurymen must be full burghers,
and has granted oppressive govern
mental monopolles in dynamite, brick
and in railroading. In proving the
suzerainity of England, Miss Ber
cited the preamble of the convention
of 1851, and pointed out that in the
convention of 1884, Lord Derby
insisted on retaining suzerainity.
Accordingly the preamble of the
convention of 81 was left intact by
the convention of '84.
Miss Ber made a great hit with
her discussion of franchise, especially
her closing sentence that what she
argued for was equal rights to white
and black"
Mr.. johnson displayed a chart
showing the comparative size of the
British. and the Beers. In regard to
the franchise, he spoke of a petite
against changing the franchise laws,
of che shameful Jameson raid and of
efforts of Kruger to preserve peace.
England, he claimed, forced the
issue. Any country has right to
establish it's own requirements for
citizenship. The outlanders were
spoken of as coming only for gold
He closed with a comparison with
our Revolution.
Mr.. Collins for the affirmative
accepted the fact that the Uitlanders
went for wealth and claimed that
the desire for wealth deNelopes every
county.
In refutting the negatives argu
mont annent the Jameson raid, the
affirmative brought out three points
list, England disclaimed aIl.responsi-
bility for the raid through the pro
clamation OF High Commissioner
Robinson; End, The Reform Commit
tee contemplated no change of flag
according to the statement made by
| Hammond, an American ard a
| prominent member of it, +3rd, Jane
/ son;alone was responsible for the
raid, fact admitted by even as
strong a pro Boer author as Leroy
| Hooker.
Louis Collins, the the third speaker
ior the affirmative, emphasized many
/ points which had already been made
He spoke of Kruger inviting the
| Britishers there iu "a and guarantee
ing them equal civil rights. That
since then numberless grievances had
grown up like the restriction Of free
speech. public meetings act, insanita
ton ef Johannesburg, religious
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of
carrying firearms, non-protection of
laborers, subserViency of the courts,
and the franchise grievances. The
Outiandels are the ones who have
modernized the TransvaaI and in
fact are the majority of the residents
of that country. They pay nine tenth
of the taxes and own one half of the
land, yet have no voice in the admin
istration Of the government.
VIM. I. Cox closed the negative by
first referring to the condition of
Ireland and by accusing England of
conquest. He took up some of the
grievances and explained that the
mine tax was just, as also the
dynamite monopoly and the prohibit
ton Of English in the schools. He
spoke of the unpopularity OF the wal
in England.
The debates we're then closed by
VIM. T. Cox and Miss Ber.
A. Hardin, of the town OF
Pepperton, is seriously sick with
paralysis.
Mic Krier returned yesterday from