The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-01-15
HARcouRTs POSITION.

As Burke and Pitt and Fox expressed
Themselves with the utmost freedom
concerning the policy of King George
III towards the Americans during the
revolutionary war, 80 have British
statesmen always expressed themselves
in reference to foreign as well as do
nestle affairs-without being listed as
traitors OF buried in contempt.
Sir William Vernon HarcOurt the
Liberal leader, took this posytion in the
Transvaal controversy, and his words,
while not prophetic, contained truths
which should have been needed:
We hear a great deal of talk about
supremacy and paramOUntcy Iney are
big words YOU ought TO consider and IN
oerstand what they mean affd now Ear
they so and how far they VIII lead. In
some senses. CT course. we are supreme
In south Africa. We have the command
Of force. We can do what we Ike. We
can crush these Dutchmen in the Trans
vaal. and you wiz have t. crush the
Dutchmen all over South Africa You
may send out a cOTDs 'armee and you
can do that; of that there IS no doubt.
But that / hope is not ire questlOn-
For us il is not what we can Go, but what
81 is right We should do, ana what We
ought to do. That is the only supremacy
When YOU talk OF supremacy Goes y mean
that you have the right to override ana
destroy the convention into which you en-
tered IN 1854. and interfere whenever You
Ike and in whatever matters yoN ike IN
the internal government OF rhe IransVaal
after YOU have guaranteed to the govern
meuf Of the Transvaal internal auton-
omy2 is That what you meanE they talk
Of paTamOuntCy in South Africa Wen.
the Iransvaal is not the only independeIiI
community there which has the rlsot OF
frra fHa. az
Orange Free State, that is not SUBJECT 10
your authority at al. Is this word para
m0untcy intended TO tell me cfailse
Free State that you claim 20 lnterIere
with their affairs. too in an particulars
is Il q wise and Statesmanllte tiihs &c
nauHt that at this moment N the lace
Of the Orange Free State IN south AIIlt, - /.
fu my opinion Il IS most 1907 sn anu tit
most dangerous thing YOU could 90 az
the present moment. We have obtained
already by the representations We nave
made and rightly made. a fair oIIer OF az
adequate franchise for the CludnoefS
upon conditions which are not unTeason-
aNle and TO so TO war in sueh an issue
I'd, mat now before US would De- IN my
opinion. wholly without justification.
Joseph Chamberlain admitted the
same thing three years ago. but when
he Thought Re saw a chance to make
political capital for himself and his
party by asserting the right TO control
the Internal affairs Of the TransvaaL
And from all accounts the English pub
lie is enraged at Chamberlain now and
more willing than ever to listen TO Har-
court and John Morley, who opposed
eerfInin.al aggression" in south Africa
There are two sides 20 every question
involving the welfare and the happiness
Of any people, whether these people
are 70 to the standard Of se1-appointed
Judges Of their rights and capabilities
or not: and no race Can boast Of fair
ness, no government Iay claim co I'D
crafty, no power establish its author
ity on right and justice. if IS cause IS
too weak 10 bear eDen discess!on.
The official Who hides behind chs fia6
of his country while ne perpetTates a
great wrong upon the people aTi1o pro-