The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-05-22
BOERs AND BLACKS.

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The Boer gets much sympathy. IL is
/ inevitable that he should. who does
not feel for the under dog in fight
though. Tfaith the Boer has had very
little Of the under dog so far but then
il is supposed that he will be in the
end But every now and then there
comes someone forward who tells us
that the Beers are not the simple
minded people one would like to believe.
Englishmen and Americans without
number have arraigned the Beers for
their inhumanity to the natives OF
South Africa, and now "a Frenchman,
NJ. Villerais, comes forward with some
statements which corroborate many
things that have been said. This is the
first view that French gentleman gives:
THE constitution Of the Transvaal
declares that there cannot exist or be
admitted any equality in church OF
state between whites and those who
have among their ancestors, even the
fourth generation, one who was not
white.
ION August 26, 1898, the Volksraad
rejected a motion to release native pas
tors and teachers from wearing on their
arm a metal badge (Which the native
dwellers in cities must carry to show
that they are I'm the service of white
man: in default of which the black Is
/ imprisoned for yagabondage.
"The black has no legal rights. The
magistrate is at liberty to admit or re-
/ ject the complaint or testimony Of a
native, as he sees best. This explains
why, in the month of June last, a prppos
nf a digg1uGginn a
privation Of civil rights, the attorney
general thus spoke of the murder or a
1 black: Not every sentence for murder
/ is necessarily degrading. Surprising,
/ for instance a man is condemned TO
I prison for six months for having beaten
his native servant to death, IT is evil
dent on the fact of IL that would be no
reason for depriving him of his rights
as a citizen and voter
THE black can neither rent or own
| land. At his good pleasure the BOer al
! lows the native to live on a corner Of
his farm. in return for which the native
must render such service as his master
! demands"
/ This is no charge brought out of the
/ remote past, when manners were differ
/ ent and the world was more brutal
| than it is now. Could anything be more
/ horrible than the language of an attor-
ney general who said in open session,
/ ''supposing a man is condemned to pris-
on for six months for having beaten his
| servant to DEATH" that there is no rea-
son for "depriving him of his rights as
a citizen and voter"
/ The thing is sickening, and one can
only shudder at the horrors perpetrated
/ by the Beers. If anyone wants to know
more fully let him read 1.-THE Last Boer
/ War" by Rider Haggard. He gives
/ horrors to sup ad libitum. But then he
is an Englishman, and is counted as
prejudiced.
| a neat way of getting money out Of
the black man is interesting NJ. Vile
rails describes it as follows:
THE state commissioners who receive
salaries varying from $500 to $1,000
plus five per cent of the taxes taken by
them, do a fiourishing business. Their
modus operandi is as follows: When
a black cannot pay his tax, he is sent
to work in the mines. Recently band
of 400 such was conducted by the police
to Johannesburg. Now the companies
which are short of help pay from Ell
to e2 per head to the recruiter who
brings lnem WOfkTnen. Inc commas
sioner acts as recruiting sergeant, and
pockets the bonus During the session
of September %, 1899, a member of the
Volksraad declared that he was ac-
quainted with a commissioner who
made $4,000 year that way"
OF course this only little light upon
the subject but these are the people
that are being eulogized as lovers Of
liberty. 1t is not the first time by
many hundreds that the Beers have
been shown up. Also, it is not the first
time that any set of people have exer-
cised their own liberty by preventing
anyone else from exercising theirs. 1t
is a natural outcome of certain relig-
ious tyranny. The Beers are such a re-
suit. One cannot really blame them,
but if ever they get the upper hand in
South Africa politically, it would be no
place for any lover of true liberty to
live in. If the British get the upper
hand, anyone could live peaceably and
the black would be protected in his
rights.