The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-03-15
RUDYARD k|PL|NG'S VIEWS.
STRUCK WITH THE DIsYoYALTY
IN CAPE COLONY.
Colonial Government Gives No Pro-
lection to the Loyaiist, hut Ex-
erts Itself to save the Dfsioyni
one. From Receiving Punishment

NEW YORK. March 14-The first word
from Rudyard Kipling since he went to
South Africa will be printed in this weeks
issue OF Harper's Weekly. Mr.. kipling
cables a long account Of disloyalty, which
he calls the sin Of witchcraft," The bur-
den OF his complaint is that British civil
authorities in Cape Town wink at semi
reasonable acts. and to quote his own
words The government viii take care it
does not pay anyone TO be loyal" He
says:
The loyalist on the border has his house
ripped inside out by the Beers or rebels,
or both; the disloyalists farm is respect
ed, and In return he supplies the enemy
with food, horses and information. His
risk is small. He may possioly-but not
II his friends can stop it-oe arrested on
a charge Of treason. He may then be sent
down country to be tried by sympa-
thetic jury. He hopes. and not without
reason, to have his farm restored to him
after he has undergone some absurdly in
adequate punishment. Meanwhile the
loyalists plano Is lying wireless on the
yeranda. photographs Of his house show
the rooms as though cyclones had met TO
wreste there; his focks and herds are
gone, and the baby linen is lying on the
dung heap He and his family crawl into
Cape Town in overpacked trains and get
what consolation they can from singing
'Brttons Never Shall Be Slaves on the
Steyn begin correspondence with Lord
Roberts as to the atrocities committed on
virtuous population by a brutal and IL
centious soldery.
THE loyallsts declare that. properly
handled, disloyalty could De reduced to a
negligible quantity What, them they
propp.ng and supporting the thing. as You
created and propped and supported the
Transvaal till 1t bit YOU? They have a
certain amount of reason on their side,
1g w 81 lsn At f1 daft
10 delay, to evade and nulify the work.
ings of just punishment, at first eau
tiously. but later. made bold by tolera-
ton, with an fnsolent carelessness of se-
curity, to preach sedtion under guise Of
abtect loyalty To mslign INSCRIPTIONS
ly, and to lie Indignantly and with knowl-
edge, among an ignorant people is a mer-
" and prottab BILE game while Ii endures
The players, however do not see, or, busy
with their small intrigues, Will not realize.
that for each man whose neck they save
arises, another and yet another.
desiring nothing less than their
neciss It Is brutal way to
honey in Cape Town Just now, and con-
fess 1t gives me the cold creeps to watch
these smooth-talking, smiling men ex-
planning to their intimates as thsy have
explained these ten years past, how this
and that will be softened down in the in
terest OF some impertled rebel. how help
another quarter, and how little in any
case TO be feared Is the British govern
ment.
many kinds; they maintain intimate rela-
tons with all sides: with the front. and
the far more important back front which
reigns at Pretoria
The colonial troops see this dasloyalty
which the government does not punish
and Mr.. Kipling voices their feelings in
these words:
Vow men who are used TO dust in their
food do not care TO have 1t thrown IN
their eyes Five, six and seven thousand
miles away anxious young communities
detail of their doings goes unrecorded by
the big dailies whose wrappers YOU have
never opened, or by the little cheap news
papers with the patent insdes. Move a
mixed colonial contingent fifty miles here
across country. and Winnipeg, Quebec.
are moved over, and, above that, they will
write TO their papers. These mems LETT
ters will be read and re-read ut cr0ss-road
stores, IN railroad roundhousos. In way
side dosser's camps at up-country race
meetings, at little Masonic lodges, along
the wharves of big exporting houses. and
in the clubs of all the lie mans world.
DO you see. therefore. that the long-en-
during scon. the terse sticking contempt,
the happy epithets spat out In a dusty
camp to turn up doubie-leaded In jour
nal Of 5000 circulation on the other side
OF the world, VIII not come from England
The colony Will be branded BY her rwn
brethren. by the open-alr men who have
voted regularly since their majority, and
who owl the houses they live in She
dare not say that they have been bought
by the capitalists Informed BY the press
or premdiced by their insular training. It
rs her own caste In punchayet that viii
strip tho colony Of her caste. She win De
left with her climate and her geographical
advantages, but her place and our peoples
will 90 over 20 Little Natal while her
honor f. trailed round the world al the
heels Of these returning horsenen. This IL
Enthusiastically and cruelty unjust,
Il developed this forecast az some length
20 a South African. and there are no
words to explain his extreme objection to
this medicine. lie was quite unconsoled hy
the statement that The Crctans have not
yet recovered from the effect % hasty
heNamctcr ~ Oh days and that the Load.
icenns have 'rasaed into literature II
struck him as a piece Of hhdcoua brutality.
Tor he loved his land with qaHston-yoa
see. such ls hls own land IA agony and
great torture. and 70 cuts him 20 the soul
That her name should he soiied He says
that she has more loyaiists lighting IN iha
field than Natal. that there are thousands
~ men and women. their relatives fghting
ou the other side. thclr hearts torn ln three
pieces. who SIN remain loyal rs o. not
the fisiol alists vii he petfed and raised
20 honor without this last shame upon
him ana hiar
''There b one way out 81 the horror.
arf one only. The men who have be-
f1uicl the colony are known. They 10
aboard No man ays hand upon them
ThtF have hccume careless IN speech. ant
This 81 important Indeed. AZ The proper
time these men can he made the means
n saving the colony"