The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-05-04
HARTZELL ON THE BOER WAR.
METHODIST BISHOP OF AFRICA
 SPEAKS IN CHICAGO.

Praises Great Britain and Declares She | Wul Win Because Sho is Right--Quss- l ton of the Natives a Vital One-Fivst Boer Trek Made Because England Would Not Allow Slavery.
 l Chicago, May 3.-Bishop J. C. Hart- l zell pleaded the cause of the Briton in 1 the Transvaal tonight before the Gen.
 eral Methodist conference and an audi
 ence that almost filled the Auditorium.
 He spoke from impressions gained by personal observation of conditions in South Africa, from personal acquaint-
 ance with President Kruger and his ad-
 visers and from a close study of the law
 and administration of laws by the gov-
 ernment. Bishop Hartzell made his ar-
 gument in behalf of the English. The
 audience was markedly pro-English in
 its sympathies.
 l By way of introduction the bishop
 spoke of some of the remarkable feat-
 ures of the war now going on in Africa. | Africa, he said, are in arms against
 England. More than half of the Dutch 1 in South Africa live in Cape Colony and Natal; and, outside of a few thou-
 sand along the northern edge of these
 colonies adjoining the Orange Free 1 State, while deeply sympathizing on their Dutch friends, who are fighting
 England, they yet rotest their loyalty to Queen Victoria.
 Years ago President Kruger speaking
 in Holland said "in that far away South African country there is to be new
 Holland In few years there will be new Holland. In a few years there I will be 8000,O00 of Europeans, all speak ing the Dutch language and that Hol- land will be greater and more powerful than Holland in Europe, and the pres- tige of the Dutch civilization will be greatly advanced" This sentiment rep- resents the Boer dream for Dutch em- | pire in South Africa. l No one can understand the full signi- 1 fcance of this contest in South Africa unless they study the laws and spirit of the Briton and Boer concerning the native or black populations, in their midst and in surrounding sections. lchartered companies, protectorates, re- publics, colonies. and empires in Africa will come and go, but the one over- lshadowing, persistent problem, which wifi remain, is the treatment of the
 native or black races. However much 1 in certain sections there may be white civilization, the largest proposition of l that continent is to be occupied by these people, and the 150000,000 of to- day are to multiply more and more in the future as there Is good government | and there is development of commercial prosperity.
 l In the treatment of the black races there has been a clear antagonism be- tween the Briton and the Boer from the very beginning. The first trek in 1883 was because England abolished slavery. E There were other issues, but every seri- ous contest had it's relation to the na- | lives
 The Boer believes that the natives are | the children of Ham, and are intended l by Providence for slavery. If slavery cannot be in that form then the relation must by law be fixed so that equality 1 of privilege is not permitted between the Boer and the native, no matter what may be the intelligence or character of | the latter.
 | The laws now in force in the Trans vaal fully demonstrate this The con- l stitution provides that there shall be no equality between white and colored persons in church or state; no black
 man can walk on the sidewalk in town
 or city; this includes not only nativei teachers and preachers trained by for eign missionary societies, but also black
 or mulatto people who come from Cape Colony or elsewhere About two years ago when this law was enforced for the first time in Johannesburg there were
 many f1oggings of natives for several days before they came to understand what the law meant.
 No black man can own land in the
 Transvaal. No black man can become
 trader of any kind, no matter what
 his intelligence or how good his char acter. Up to two years ago there could
 be no legal marriage of any black per-
 son. A marriage law was passed requir- ing fee of s15, with other hindrances so many that the missionaries and phil lanthropists are seeking to have it re- pealed. No black man has 8 standing in court in the Transvaal; he cannot
 sue the government or white man. The Transvaal does nothing toward the
 education of the black people, although by licenses, and so forth, they pay per cent. of the public school money. What is done among them is done by English and European and American I Missionary associations, and the testi-
 mony of all preachers and missionaries in the Transvaal outside of the Dutch Reformed church is that their work is
 often interfered with, and that the at- tttude especially of the Boer officials. is frequently brutal toward the natives connected with mission stations. Re- gently Mrs Applebee, wife of Wes- leyan Methodist missionary, was mur- dered on her way to church because of her criticisms of the government, and
 no arrests have yet been made.
 The Transvaal Dutch churches, after
 fifty years of opportunity, have done practically nothing in missionary work +l,A ixraC foi1 +1