The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-01-26

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posed to annexation and Immediately
began an anti-British agitation. This
agitation eliminated in revolt and the
war of 1S80.S1, which was ended after
three months of indecsive fighting,
by the.peace-loving Gladstone agree
lnggto accord the Beers complete self
government, subject to British
suzerainty. 1t was an incredible
bIunder on the part of Gladstone, and
England is paying the price now.
From the date of the Gladstone
realty, as might be easily surmised,
the lot of the British settlers in the
Transvaal became harder and harder.
They repeatedly petitioned Tor re.
dress of their grievances, and Presi
dent Kruger promised to institute
reforms, but his promises were never
kept. The courts were wholly subject
to the executive, none but Beers were
allowed to sit on juries, Boer police
committed repeated outrages upon
British subjects, extending even to
the murder by policeman of an
EnRlishman when in his own house
and unarmed, the children of English
men were denied school privileges
although the schools were supported
almost wholly by the English, they
were denied the franchise, except on
practically impossible conditions, and
were refused representation in any
branch of the government, although
they paid five.sixths of the taxes.
Failing to obtain redress by petition
to the Transvaal government, the
British finally appealed to their home
government, and Sir Alfred Miner
was sent out rs High Commissioner to
see what could be done about it. The
story of the proposals and counter
proposals which passed between
President Kruger and Sir Alfred and
later between Kruger and Chamber
lain, the British colonial secretary, is
long one. The short Of it is that the
British government asked the Trans
val to grant the franchise to all for
eigners of good character after five
years residence, as it had originally
agreed to do. The Transvaal offered
to do this upon condition that England
relinquish her suzerainty over the
Republic and agree in future not to
interfere with its internal affairs. To
have agreed to the former demands
would have been distinct humiliation
to the English government, while to
have agreed to the latter would have
been to divest itself of the right and
the duty of every civilized power to
protect its subjects in foreign coun-
try from injustice, and Mr.. Chamber
lam, of course rejected the proposal.
AS counter proposal he asked Presi-
deIL Kruger to allow the five years
franchise, and to submit all other
questions between the two countries
to arbitration. AS answer to this
Kruger began to mobilize his forces.
England thereupOn started reinforce
ments to her border garrsons. Krue-
ger demanded that these reinforce
ments be turned back And the war
was on.
So far as we nave been able to CLEAN
them from diligent study, the fore
going are the facts in the relations OF
the two governments which have pre-
coded the present struggle, and these
facts, in our judgment, show incon-
testibly that England is right and
Transvaal is wrong. England did not
provoke the war; on the contrary she
took every step, short Of national dis
honor, to avert it. England is not at
tempting to deprive the Transvaal OF
the great benefits which belong to
self government and to substitute an
autocratic foreign rule for a govern.
ment deriving It's powers from the will
of the people. On the contrary the
origin of England's interference in the
affairs of the Transvaal lies in the
fact that everything implied in the
grant of self-government has been per
sistently withheld from the majority
of the people in that country. England
simply demanded that the men whC
paid the taxes should have voice il
the government, that the courts o
justice should be Independent of tn,
executive power that the lives auC
property of her citizens should be pro
tected, that n man should be tried by
jury of his peers. All of these tn,
Boer government originally pledged
as a condition of its independence, bu
has persistently and wilfully refused
to perform,