Arizona republican., 1900-08-07
A So-CaIIed Consolidation
 Scheme Exposed
BY SIR ALFRED MILNER
A Project Gotten Up With an Alp pearance of Fairness and Com promise Designed to Give the South African Republics All They Could Have Gained by Sue cessful War.

London, Aug. 6-An important Blue Book relating to South Africa was pub lished by the colonial office last night. It consists of large mass of dispatches and other documents bearing dates be- tween December and June last.
 Some of the documents throw a rude light on the working of the pro-Boer "conciliation" movement and reveals it's connection with Dr. Leyds; and in others Sir Alfred Milner records his opinion of the movement.
 The dossier includes a telegram. found at Bloemfontein, which was sent by President Kruger to Mir. Steyn last January. The president stated that "a certain E. T. Hargrove, an English journalist about whom Dr. Leyds form erly wrote that he had done much in Holland to work up the peace memorial to Queen Victoria" had called upon him.
 He says he has come," wired Mir. Kruger, from Sauer and Merriman (members of the then Cape ministry). who are ready to range themselves openly on our side and to make propa- ganda in Cape Colony provided an off, cial declaration is given that the re- publics only desire to secure complete independence''
 Sir Alfred Mflner had this document brought to the notice of Merrs. Sauer and Merriman, who both. fiatly repudi- ated having given Mir. Hargrove au- thority to speak for them, and dis avowed the views attributed to them. MT. Hargrove, on being asked for ex- plantations, made a shuffling statement which MT. Schreiner described as ''labored, lame and unsatisfactory The premier, with the concurrence of the high commissioner, proposed to Messrs Sauer and Merriman that the whole correspondence should be pub lshed. Mr. Merriman's reply was curi- ously hesitating. He had no objection to publication, but thought it would do no good, but would only add fresh fuel to the flames of political strife and give the politicians a morsel of that sort of scandal which they dearly love-
 As for MT. Kruger, he Loyalty full 1llled his part of the contract, as shown by draft letter to MT. Hargrove, ob- viously intended for the widest pub licity and plentifully enriched with those pious allusions which character ize all his utterances.
 He thinks wrote the president 10 MT. Steyn, that a great propaganda can be made in Cape Colony whereby influence can be brought to bear again on the English people and the world adding somewhat sadly, T myself do not expect much result" His anticipa- tion was prophetic.
 In an admirably reasoned dispatch to MT Chamberlain dated June 6. Sir A. Milner dealt with the so-caIIed 'Peo- ple's Congress" held at Graaf Reint at the end of May, among the delegates to which was MT. Hargrove.
 Il do not know to what extent the conc1llation' movement may have at tracted attention in England" be wrote, but l am bound to inform you that in my judgment, whatever may be the extent of it's importance Gas to Which I do not feel at all sure). 1t makes for mischief and mischief only.
 The term 'cOnciliation' is a curious misnomer as the leaders of the move ment with the exception of Mir. Har- grove, are drawn exclusively from the more extreme members of the Afrikan- der party, while it's programme consists of direct negative to the policy of her majesty's government, and it's argu- ments of abuse of that policy and of all it's principal representatives"
 The high commissioner next draws attention to the fact that "a very un- pleasant and characteristic feature of the 'conciliatfon' movement is the threat to boycott the English in com mercial relations.