The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-02-04
ENGLAND AND TRANSKAAL.

C''The Relation of England TO the Trans
vaal." by Lieutenant General den Beer
Portugal in the February Forum
Great Britain, thou with a colony ike
British India, where, notwithstanding thy
enlightened government, the pesulence
reigns year after year, and where thou
sands perish By famine how darest thou
complain OF the government IN the Trans
Vaal, and Of the lot of the OuJi9uders.
who have so lfUie TO complain OF that
ZS.00O thousand of them signed, bona nde,
an address in which they declared them
selves contented with the government or
the republic? Even the Times. The lingo
newspaper par exec. lence, mentioning the
arrival Of the Arundel Castle in Ply
mouth. with 800 emigrantS from the
IranSVa9l-mOst of whom were Cornwall
miners VINO had worked in the Rand
was obliged to acknowledge that these
people declared than tney had no reason
FOR complaint, and that they were per
fectly. well satisfied with the hlgn wages
they had received.
Thou who treated British India in such
a way, that, at q conference of Indians
resident in the United Kingdom. c0nVeE-
ed by the London Indian society June 20,
1893, a resolution was passed, saying:
That the Introduction of the gold stan
dard viii simply add more to the existing
griev0us burdens of the taxpayers; that
the real cause Of the terrible evils of pow
erty. famine, plague, false currency. etc,
IS what Lord Salisbury truly calls the
bleeding of India flor. as he says, India
must be bled), and the Bleeding is furth-
CT increased by the fall in exchange or
/ rise in gold; that until this most deplOr-
able bleeding of India IS stopped, there
IS httle chance. if amy. of saving India.
and the British empire from serious dis
aSterS or destruction, and lastly. that the
cOnSd tuition Of the present currency com
mtttee is utterly unsatisfactory as the
suffering taxpayer Is not at all repre-
sent ali'-
How canst thou then say to thy broth
! or; Brother. let me cast out the mote
that IS in thine eye, when thou myself
behOldeSt not the beam that is in thine
own eye? Cast out first the beam that is
in thine own eye, and then shalt thou see
clearly TO cast out the mote that is in thy
broJhCT's eye.
Not about suzerainty thou goest to war
| Thou knOWesC vel enough that in the
last convention no sIzes 3inty is men
/ toned.
Do not say: eve only want equality
Of rights for all men, for all races For
this is not the reason either Eyhy thou art
going to war. This is only a pretCXt-
thou Wantest something more, something
| quite different.
If the Transvaa1 were q Door country
the rights of its inhabitants would leave
thee quite indifferent, but now that dia-
mond fields and gold mines have been
found there-cOnsideTing that riches
give power and that power suTpasseS
r1Sht-LhOu SendeSt a. hundred ships and
more with soldiers. to night as in the
time of the ancients, for the possession
Of the golden fleece. Thou dreadest the
! force Of the once BY thee so deeply dis
dained and WrOnged African Dutch race
I which. ike the European Dutch race
though naturally averse to war. never
fears it when liberty and justice deman nd
it.
Since thou knowest that thou hast for
feited their trust. thou art afraid Of be
ing treated as thou hast treated them;
and thou art resolved TO subdUe these Al
rikanders. Thou wishest TO be the sole
commander in South Africa even by
treading upon all rights. by robblng all
free states of their freedom. The whole
map Of South Africa must be COlOTed in
thy scarlet color he Il even with the
blood Of the Beers. This horrible. unjust
war il. to use Mr.. Scead's words. IAN
outrage upon Christianity and human
fly"
Nemesis viii not marry. This war thou
mayeSt win or lose, but in any event II
| VIII carry with it the consequences Of its
! iniqUity. Thy credit and thy reputation
/ are gone; public opinion throughout Eu-
/ rope is against thee. South Africa hast
! thou made an irrecOncilab-e enemy. and
/ there thou shalt spill thy best blood 1t
| IS the beginning Of thy decay. the begin
/ ming Of the end.