The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-04-02

YOU say to that urbane and we'll wash
"a friend smiling craI-ily across the
table?
Luckless Loyalisti.
50 it comes about THAI socia. rs.a-I
lions IN Cape Town ale a triGe s.rsiu-.
e., and tAat men have given uy ak
ing 20 one another VINO once preserved
the semJlauce Of ciyiL,y. No. il did
not pay To be loyal in 1881. That -
one reason why men who were loyal
then are fighting hard against Us. and
IL pays very LITTLE better now. The
.Oyais. Oh .le border has mis- house
ripped inside OuJ by Beers Or reJe.s.
JI DJtn, tle d.slO.a.ls,s farm Is re-
spcc,eu, and il return hs supple, .ae|
enemy with food. horses. and informal
zion. His risk 10 small be may BOSE
siJiy-but not il bis friends can SOD Dc.
be arrested on charge OF tre.su.
lie may then be sent down country 90
be tried by d sympathetic jury. He
hopes. and not without reason. to have
his farm restored 20 him after hc has
undergone some absurdly inadequate
punishment. Meanwhile the lOyais.'s
piano is lying wireless on the yeranua.
photographs OF his house show iHe
I =
wrestlc there: his E0Cks and herds are
gone; and the baby linen is lying on
/ the dung heap, lie and his fam. y
crawl into Cape Town in overpackod
| trains. and get what consolation they
can from singing "BritOns Never Shall
| he Slaves on the platform. Then DO
/ Messrs. Kruger and Steyn enter mo
| cOrrasp OndenCe with Lord Roberts "a
/ to the atrocities committed on a vir.u-
| GUS population by a brutal and licen-
| liOus sOldiery. And out in the daSt and
| glare to eastward the various jayhawk-
/ ers and night-cats and catchCmalIves
OF our irregular corps may be forgiven
/ if they vow that the next time they
are fired upon from a registered voters
farm they will not wait for an authori-
ZatiOn cOunteTsigned by fifteen officers
ere annexing all the registered voter:
stock. In sober truth, only a Gilbert
* Sullivan operetta can parallel some
Of the affairs in which the military and
civil authorities have met over thC
bodies of suspected farmers, or th'
correspondence of disinterested Off
Gals.
The loyalists declare that, properly
handled. open disloyalty could be re
iuced to a negotiable quantity
|
sense of creating and propping an,
supporting the thing as you create;
and propped and supported the Trans
vaal till il bit you? They have Ger
tain amount of reason on their side
and it may as well be set out to defeat
20 delay, to evade, and nullify tn
: workings of a just punishment. at frs
cautiously. but later made bold by tOl
$ Grafton, with an insolent carele5s1es
! of security, to preach sedition unde
guise of abject loyalty. To maligl
= unscrupulously and to lie Malignant
and with knowledge among an isnOT
? ant people is a merry and profitabl
. game while il endures. The players
however, do not see, or, busy wig
! their small intrigues. will not .eal.Z
that for each man whose neck me
save arises another. and yet anothe,
desiring nothing less than their neck
1t is a brutal way to put, but thing
E are not all cream and honey in Cap
Z Town just now, ard | confess IL give
me the cold creeps TO watch thes
smOOth-talking. smiling men explain
ing to their intimates, as they hav
| explained these ten years past, ho'
i this and that will surely be softene
q down in the interest of some imptrIile
. and support from another quarter: All
how little in any case to be feared
the British government. They will at
tend TO it all; they will arrange. the
. will explain; they will influence, the
will speak with the enemy in the mat
ter. Truly the guns and men and tn
steadily arriving ships are annoyin
4 factors, but England cannot keep u
( the supply. She has drawn on her las
resources; the capitalists are neari
tired, and, above all, the military ar
: immensely fools and most easily hood
winked. The home government
weak and of many minds they az
present. Omnipresent: they main:ai
2 intimate relations with all sides; wit
/ the front and the far more importar
= back front" which begins at PretorI,
!. Get First News.
: First news Of all our movement
A comes to their hands, and also Dr.
2 news Of all our reverses. They "a
5 make /, unpleasant for the magistrat
:, who does. and the civil servant VIII
u sees. too much for the Jealous stat,oi
5 master. or the uncommunicative tel'
! graph clerk. Above all-and 1t wa
i that that gave me the shudder W m
:, back the same which you get whe
u you see a man rioting a little befor
= mis- end-they are persuaded that the
y own lives are absolutely safe. NCti
ing untOward can befall gentlemen {
i such address and influence, so they d.
y vote themselves to their gospel, whic
: breaches that il is not wise POLITICAL
y or departmentally TO be over-loyal. w
= admit all that say the sagacious an
u the statesmanlike, but when the Va
, is over and the British flags come out {
. all the back cupboards, and the me
: are filing claims for compensation fC
: disturbance by the wicked Free Slater
: and Transvaalers, these men Will So
= which side their bread is buttere'
= and will work Loyalty with the const
'; tuted authorities. Our first business
y to break up the Poer armies and col
= front them with the accomplished fact
= This may be statecraft, and the tor'
knowledge that these gentlemen WI
: enjoy positions of distinction and emo
:. ument under a peace which will haN
y been won in the teeth Of their effort
: seems a mighty poor present eqail
u ment for the loyal COlOnist. He col