New-York tribune., 1900-01-08

views great social economical and political
questions. Such was our own Civil War.
And there are wars combining all these ele-
ments of discord. and such is the "irrepressibe
conflict now going on in South Africa.
That tne cause OF real liberty, of order, of jus
all races and for all creeds. Protestant and
Catholic, Jew and Gentle. is represented on
the one side by the British, and that the per-
petuation Of selfish ogarchy, the natural
outcome OF ignorance and isolation among the
governed. is represented on the other by the
Beers, have certainly, let hope been suffi-
ciently appreciated by the American people to
insure to Great Britain and her colonies in
their present struggle the firm moral support
of the great body of intelligent public opinion
in the United States.
New-York Jan 5, 1900
AN ENGLISHMAN ON THE BoER SIDE.
WHAT JOHN A. HoBsoN FOUND IN HIS TOUR OF
SOUTH AFRICA.
To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Your lberality and courtesy 10 those Of your
correspondents who do not fully agree with the
sentiments of The Tribune TO the British in
South Africa emboden me TO send you the in
closed which hope you may be willing to publish
As an offset to those of your correspondents who
insist that the Outlanders had a great grievance,
which made it the duty of Great Britain to make
war upon the South African Republic. The opn-
ion the contrary side which is inclosed is not
that of American. but of an EngIshman OF
Englshmen. a graduate of Cambridge University,
n representative of THE Manchester Guardian in
South Africa during the last summer, and polit-
cal economist of such distinction that he has been
country. and has written works with which you
are familiar which attest that he has won the posi-
may take this opportunity also to say that
have Celtic hatred of England. On the con-
trary, we consider it important that her civiliza-
We believe that she has put great obstacles in
should and who would have been her allies but for
Mr. Rhodes. DR.. jameson and Mr. ChambeIlain
New-York. JAN T. 1900.
John A. Hobson. the we'll known writer on polit-
ical economy was welcomed home from his tour IN
South Africa by dinner given by the National
Liberal Club of Bradford. England. In The OBJ
server" of that city, of December A. appears the
following sketch of Mr.. Hobsons remarks. He was
introduced by Sir Robert Reid. and he then spoke
follows:
There had been corruption, but only in the Rand
and only in ADMINISTRATION, not among judges or
happier and more prosperous than in any other city
Of modern times There was in Pretoria strong
desire for among all the officers of the State
but Mr.. Chamberlan's Highbury speech was in
dismissed as unworthy of notice the absurd theory
Of Dutch -, conspiracy His I graveesft words were
forces of financial capitalism; Of which he had the
English nationaIity-a sentence which elected loud
cheers-and it for these international capital
had Obtained possession Of the South African press
bee ee and snbected to an organzeS con- 1
spiracy of poison. When these facts should break
the eyes of Liberal England the danger would
be realized of this combination of influences which
threatened other countries we'll own
Mr.. Hobson received with the utmost
diaty, and it truly said of him that it falls to
few render such service to his country as
he has done He spoke Of English public opinion
overwhelmed in torrent of Misrepresentation
His impression of Sir Alfred Miner from the first
day he spoke with him of "a man who had set
his teeth and whom argument would divert from
the path he had rigidly marked out for himself"
OF the grievances Of the Outlanders he said with
out hesitation that danger to life limb and prop
erty had substance whatever"