New-York tribune., 1900-03-15
THE SIN or LOYALTY.
KIPLING URGES STERN DEALINGS BY
THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT WITH
CAPE COLONY REBELS.

Under the date of Cape Town, March 49, and
under the somewhat puzzling caption THE Sin
of Witchcraft" "Harper's Weekly prints this
week Rudyard Kiplng's first cable letter on the
war in South Africa. That MS imperialism has
lost none of its vigor will be seen from the follow
ing extracts:
Copyright. 1900. by Rudyard Kiplingn
The first fine careless rapture of the war died
e Se fFG0pI @1d the to stir GaPe Town 9wads
still as singuariy economical Of bunting as ever
they were, but those OF her sons who are not at
traffic Dimiy and distantly Cape Town realizes
that that thing called the British Government is
She prays very deeply that some Of that earnest
deSs may y be f diverted or if there be
some of her faithful Children; but at heart d9
her POSITION She sees no end to 20 the re
troops and the guns; the strange men from the
horses the boxed machinery and the walls of am
thing the club tables om 5he en b9r5 an
pred In the Colony who have fit to risk their
book and think t SHOCKS nfgsge and rs9es IS hep nGt
tank n posy wished Is to neutr9 and the
in a low voice, for fear of creating scenes IT is
Illustrations and instances that have not Vet
appeared in any journal
been out with Rnngtons jayhawkers aHgse ner er
aeeng light or bas bs riding hard
aung round Colesoerg; catching sand collie from
hot h, lands spnnyssde way Suppose, now by fore
thought and little luck you had caught a few
Transvaalers. but registered voters who had been
hgins at you as you bundered desperately across
shot your prizes, but had turned them over TO the
some accident of marching these registered voters
across section not under martial law the civil
had prepared feather beds for them to fall upon
end by some hankypanky of civil law which You
means counteract had sentenced them to practical
purely am but Gr sapPose m as
una rnat & you were ere seht down TO Cape Town sick and
you had not seen since November a clean quiet
been further than stellenbosch since the war re be-
gan. and that gentleman chaffed you about your
to believe hat he and gG few nfa rends 6ds
Work hs vo na6 6a USED 6d t4 M authority to undo all he
oud yo G ana "a sun h teveE put It to you what
friend Gd !. smiling crafty across the table?
on 1t comes tais about that social relations in Cape
given up talking to one another who once pre-
pay to be loyal in 1881 That Is one ~ olu vI h0t
men who were loyal then lighting hard against
on the border has his house ripped inside OUT by
Seers OF rebels or both the dsloyalists farm is
With with food horses and alton His risk is
can stop it-be arrested on a charge of treason
He may then be sent down country to be tried
reason, have his farm restored to him after he
en Meanwhe the oyaiss pano j.! PuFiFh 2
wireless on the veranda; photographs of his house
wrestle there; his ocks and herds are sone and I'D
the the baby linen is lying on the dung heap He and
his family crawl into Cape Town in oyerDa ckrd
trains, and get what consolation they can from
singing "Br1tons Never Shall Be Slaves" on the
platform. Then do Messrs. Kriger and Steyn
en- enter % into Sorrespondenee with Lord Roberts as
ton by brutal and Hcentious soldiery
There Is need TO be vindctive; there is a
great need for justice-such justice as is dealt
coidly and deliberately months years after his
crime to the murderer or the man slayer They
Will pray you to let bygones be bygones thew
VIII beguile you, and buy men to beguile you
with of
they will appeal tearfully to your masnanimitv
behind the victories of your men; they will shelter
credit to themselves urging that if they had
fallen the Colony. They will coax. they will
threaten. thew will brbe, and in the last resort
time comes listen at least to the case for the
prosecution; take the trouble to read through the
the trial