The Delawarean., 1900-05-09
COM N MUNlCaTED.
Mr.. Editor:


Abraham Lincoln said, Those who
deny freedom to others, deserve it mo-
themselves, and under a just God can.
, not long retain it," And history testi.
$ fies that those nations or people, whc
do not act on the golden rule, to "Dc
:, unto Others as they would that they
should do unto them," are certain OF
disaster. The Beers in the Transvaal
: have notoriously disregarded the divine
E obligation and have not taught theft
. fellow-men in that country ON the basis
of equal and public rights. And the
sentiment of human liberty as express
sed by Lincoln as well as a regard for
divine injunction, compel us to hope
| and believe, what no one is so foolish
to doubt, that Great Britain in the
present conflict in South Africa, con-
tending as she is, for the great Demo
cratic principle that one class of men
shall not be regarded as politically
, inferior, but that all shall participate
on equal terms in government, will
ultimately be victorious.
Enemies of England and of progress
or as the Wilmington Morning News
the other day said, "Pestiforous fellows
who are always coming to the front to
win notoriety, or attempt to show a
peculiar disposition to be contrary
may abuse England and express SYM
pathy for the Beers, but all such clap
trap efforts should be squelched. Paul
Kruger and his associates are undoubt-
edly responsible for the innocent blood
that is being shed in South Africa.
Had they not violated solemn COM
pacts entered into with England, and
not endeavored to enforce the PROPOSE
tion that no white man who is not a
Boer, had any rights, which the Beers
are bound to respect, their local indie
pendence would never have been in
question, and if they had accepted the
friendly council of England as they
We're bound to do this bloody war
would not have ensued.
England had no desire for this war,
and that she did not expect it is very
evident from her want of preparation
for it. When the Beers invaded her
territories by encroaching on the bound
aries of the other colonies stealing a
railroad line and cutting telegraph
wires, England was forced into this
conflict to defend her own subjects and
their properties, as we'll as to perform
her duties to the liberal genius of the
great empire she has built and is build
ing within whose pail man is man
wherever and of whatever race born.
English rule is always good, or at
any rate, it is always conscientiously
intended to be for the best appeals
to what they do in England are our
misfortunes," said the Iron Chancellor
of Germany, But give us everything
English that we have mot got, English
fear of God, English veneration for the
law, the entire English Constitution,
in word, everything which we have
not. and then l will say rule us as the
English are ruled" Wherever the
English-speaking go and wherever
their tongue is spoken there is Ito be
found the best government, the most
prosperous people and the greatest evil
dence of the highest civilization
For stranger for that hosts that march
with battle flag unfurled,
1t goes with freedom, thought and
truth, to rouse and rule mankind.
Hence it is that the Beers in the
Transvaal prohibit the use of the lam
guage used by Englishmen and Ameri-
cans.
i Under the fostering care of England
the great Dominion OF Canada, the
Continent of Australia and other parts
of the globe have attained the yigor of
national life and the inhabitants there
of are comparatively prosperous and
happy, and her colonies in South
Africa are not exceptions. They ap-
proach to self-government Cape Col
ony has a representative government,
and every adult subject in possession
of property to the value of three hun
dred and seventy-five dollars, or is in
the receipt pf wages to the amount of
two hundred and fifty dollars per year,
and with enough education to be able
to sign his name and write his address,
has vote.
There is no other distinction made
ON the score of race, color, religion or
anything else. In practice, everyone
who is really of any account in the
colony has a share in it's government.
The Malay peddler, or harness maker,
the small colored farmer, and the negro
dock-laborer, if he is a steady fellow,
are politically equal to the prosperous
English or Dutch merchants. The
negro who prefers to live tribal life,
in fact, to live as a savage, does not
get the vote, but directly he chooses
to raise himself enough to acquire the
simple qualifications have enumer-