Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-04
BISHOP FLAYS Beers.
Address Contains soathipg Attack
on the Boer Cause in South
Africa
Contest Between Briton and Boer
is Slavery Question Over
Again.
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Opinion Based on Information Sc:
cured From Missionaries in the
Country.

Country.
Chicago, May 4.-Bishop j. c. Hart
zell pleaded the causesof the Briton in
the Tranvaal last night before an audi- |!
ence that almost flied the Auditorium
He spoke from Impressions gained by
personal observation. Of the conditions
in South Africa from personal ac-
quaintance with President Kruger and I
his advisers and from a close study of
the laws and administration of thct
laws by the government. The address
contains much valuable historical matt
ter relative To thu development of South |
Africa. the Boer dream of a Dutch ems
3pire, ste 1t is as follows:
Not one nalf of the Beers of South
a.Africa are in arms against England. z,
More than h:llf of the Dutch in South
Africa live i'll Cape Colony and Natal;
and. outside of a few thousand along
the northern edge of these colonies adj
joining the OrAnge Free State, White
deeply sSlnpathizing on account OF race
and blood ties With their Dutch friends
Mo are lighting England, they vet pro-
test their loyalty TO Queen Victoria
Aears ago President Burger. speaking
in Holland, said: I'm that far ava.
South Africa country there is to be a
new Holland. II. ) few years there Will
be 100000 of Europeans. all speaking
1.-the Dutch language. and that Holland
will8be greater and more powerful than
Holland in Europe, and the prestige of
4. Nj
yanced" This sentiment represents the
Isoer dream for Dutch empire in South
Africa.
No one can understand the full signi-
ficance8of this contest in South Africa
unless they study the laws and spirit of
the Briton and Roer concerning the ma
tive or black populations, in their midst
| and in surrounding sections. Chartered
l5companies, protectorates. republics coll
lsenics and empires in Africa will come
Land go. but the one ovesshadowing. per-.
lsistent problem which Will remain IS the
treatment of the, native OF black races.
\ However much in certain sections there
may be white civilization, the largest
proportional that continent is to he oc-
Ecupied BY these people. and the l5o.0oQ,-
Loco of today are to multiply more and
more in the future as there is good gov
iernment and there is development of
commercial prosperity.
4 In the treatment of the black races
There has been a clear antagonlsm be-
Tween the Briton and the I3oer from the
livery beginning The first trek in 1873
9|swass because England abolished slavery.
4 There We're other issues. but every seri-
A Gus contest had its relation to the ma
4 tiNes,
q The Boer believes that he natives are
the children of Ham and are intended
by Providence for slavery. If slavery
q lean not be in that form then the rela-
& ton must by law be fixed so that equal
|ity of privilege is not permitted between
4 the Isoers and the native. no matter what
Iinay be the intelligence or character OF
the latter.
The. laws now in force in the Trans
\ |vaal fuilsdsmnns this The consti-
u tuition provides that there shall be NJ
Equality between white and eelored per:
Il, sons in church or state: no black mar
4 can walk on the sidewalk in town %
city: this includes not only native teach
y sers ans. preachers trained by foreign
}, missionary Societies. but also black o.
ssEmulatto people Who come from Cap
8 Colony OF. elsewhere. About two year
ago when this law was enforced for tn
Z first time in Johannesburg there wer
S many floggings of natives for seyera
I days before they came to understan
8 what The law meant.
y No Black man can own land in TIL
Z Transvaal. No black man can become
s Itradel OF any kind, no matter what hi
z Intelligence Or how good his character
!, l9U-p to two Years ago there could be n
3 legal marriage of any black person,
2 marriage law Vas passed requiring
4 ffse of SIS, with other hindranees $
5 many that the missionaries and philai
9 thropists are seeking to have itrepealet
3, No black man has a standing in cou,
3I5in the TransNaal; he can not sue tn
z, government or d white man. The Trans
3, !vaal does nothing toward the educatio
@ lof the black people, altho by license
(, and SO forth. they pay 3 per cent Of II
3 public school money. What is dor
81 among them is done by English an
European and American missionary a!
and the testimony OF a
preachers and missionaries in Ii
Transvaal outside of the Dutch r,
FORMED church. is that their work is o
Ten interfered With aud that the att
= llude especially of the Boer officials
iIFstiutJliS' tIdtIN'
= connected With mission stations. r.
Gently Mrs. Applebee. wife of a Wesle.
an odistamissonary, was murdert
ION her way to church because OF h
criticisms of the government. ard I
ii arrests have yet been made. The Tran
n vaal Dutch church. after fifty years
opportunity, have done practically not
a Ling in missionary work among the n;
tives II failed to learn of one bat
convert, much less a native teacher
preacler or congregation in eth
branch of the Transvaal Dutch Reform
ed church President kruger's branc
which is the Dopper church, and CLAIM
Ito he the true reformed body, not on
u does nothing, but beginning with Kr
ger himself represents the most e
IRENE nti-black sentiment. The Dut,
IN Reformed church in Cape Colony and
Is Natal, which has been under 100 years
q. English law, fair dealing to the bla
r. man as Well as example shows diffe
IT. ent8 record. They have missions amol
N the blacks, and they have some me
q. excellent people who are giving thu
eS time and money to this great work, {
q, tho there is a large conservative sen
a. ment even in that section against the
lG in their own church. On the other har
q. in Cape Colony the constitution allo,
no difference on account of color
l<h,,r kato rot{ mol .cIe