The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-04-21
BRUT Atty OF BOERS.

WHY THE SOUTH AFRICAN BLACKS
ARE ON THE SIDE OF THE
BRITISH
LETTER FROM A MISSIONARY.
Dom Paul's Alleged Christian Policy
Denounced, With Prnise for Gen.
Joubert-The Nati1es Absolutely
/ Without Any Political Rights.
i TIE shocking brutality Of the Beers In
their treatment Of the black race in
i South Africa is described in letter just
/ received by the Indianapolis superin:end-
ent OF the Pentecost band. from the Rev.
g. II. 5Agnew, an American missionary.
4 The Rev. Mr.. Agnew has been in the
STransvaal for fifteen years and left Jo-
hannesburg at the outbreak of the war
for more congenial residence In Natal
4 He gives the reasons Of the blacks for
4 sympathizing with the British in the
! following timely letter, which also throws
1 additional light on the reports that Pres
ident Kruger has deposed Gen. Joubert
! and why: 81 4 | #
EnQuapen1, Near Harding, Natal,
Southeast Africa, Feb Z, 19OO-We are
/ opening new mission station here near
/ the borders Of Amapondaland, about fo--
! ty miles south Of our mission at Fair
i view. A great war is raging here i'm
/ South Africa. Already thousands have
been killed and wounded, and the end is
not yet. The Beers have invaded Natal,
and We have been forced to leave our
work IN the Transvaal for the time be-
i Ing. It Is a question of who shall be
dominant-in South Africa-Boers or Brit
ISL. Boer domination would mean slav-
cry for the colored race. Wherever the
Boers have been in authority the poor
natives have groaned under the iron heel
/ Of oppression. People talk much about
the 1e B Zoe, being a simple pastoral. peo-
who have labored in their country, know
the. contrary. The TransvaaI govern
ment has lately dared to make a law
ena aee me e, vases OF the natives shall not
exceed 81, or about, So, q month.
i Under a Boer government. at least in
I the Transvaal,s colored persons have alb
S SoId ely no political rights. They cannot
i told property, cannot engage in busin ness
Ut -ihe nselVes, have no vote, and have
absolutely nothing to say in either lnu-
Iaslpal eo goyernmental affairs In the
psoptez can mold property, can engage in
/ business for themselves, and, t1nCeI GER.
fsln .eSondittions can vete. In all ,he
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lowed to walk on the sidewalk: in the
IraHsvaal it is prohibited. and the pun
,sneat i fsno pre aee Of the law
eeunIte often poor, green natives, ignorant
OF. the law. are caught and dashed I'M
snerclfnlly for walking a few steps .ong
the, Sidewalks. Floe ging d native to
i death was publicly stated in the voixs-
raad Cor senate csamber), by SHUTS,
the present states attorney Of the Trans. .
4 Yaal to be 10 dishonoring crime
~ u 90 not remember of hearing of a
white man5in the Transvaala fined or pun
4 sished in any way for knocking down a
native Even policemen, sbg DAD day
i light will pound natives unnercifully,
o or TO OF pure spite, and no notice is taken
assaults on natives by. whites are pun
1shed, and many magistrates will take
the side Of the natives against the whites
tive eo er t n ransvaal logged two na
their Kidneys protruded. Two other girls
that he flogged recovered. After much
| delay he was sentenced to two years in
] prison without hard labor. As this hap
pened just before the war, he probably
stayed in prison about a week. In another
case, where two Beers deliberately
| pounded a natives face with their fists
until they broke both jaws, the assail-
ants We're discharged. In still another
e5ata the na1ye kicked
| murderer. who was a rich man, that as
It was a brutal affair, he would have to
1 ''At our magistrates court in Voks-
4 burg, poor natives were sentenced ur-
mercifully. Flogging. was their daily por-
offeEses, for having no passes, for visit
ing other compounds. for being outside
ct their districts, 6 n +, and when they
/ a mass Of raw flesh, and we realized that
this treatment was heartily Endorsed and
| commended by the governpnent os the
Increased. . POSITIVELY, no such treat
meIt as the Beers serve out to the ma
fiyes is allowed in any Of the British
| individual British coionists occasion
| ally doubtless do treat natives as badly
| as individual Beers DO; That is, there are
but when 1t, comes to governments, there
/ IS absolutely no compaTison.; It is not
SURPRISING fg, that all t the naentia South
The Basutos, armed to the teeth, have
again and again, In the past few months.
e to th attaeF te
ers,. The Zulus. who, if they had serious
grievances against the British govern
tunity Of redressing their wrongs, are
strange to say. British to the core and
anxious to take part in the campaign
the native compounds. conversing as I
tribes. do not remember ever Coming
Beers. why Is this? Simply Because Bee e ea
cry intelligent native knows that one of
the chief planks in the Boer platform fs
natrsd and relentless cruelty to coiored
Another fact In regard to the Trans
yaal government il that It is corrupt.
almost every official from President Paul
Kruger down TO the latest recruit Of the
police force, is. or can be, brfbed. Whisky
swing and. N spite OF the sham native
propulsion. law. natives by the thou
sands, are supplied with liquor, the eyes
or Lne government officials being closed
py pribes. Every Sunday, from the cam
teens around the mInes, can be seen hum
Gated, while government officials pass
ana repass Once In q while an arrest Is
made sofe some individual who has not :
enough money TO bride with, but aside
from that the whisky kings openly defy
the INV and the bribed officials dare not
prosecute them
| The dynamite n,onopolies and the
Hatherly distil1ery are Paul Kruger's
savowed pets, and in spite Of all his pray
ing and Psalm singing and appealing to
SOD. even his own impartial burghers
obstacle to all true government ands the
ayoWed friend of the corrupt politicians
Ine one honest man in the govern
ment has been Gen. Joubert Faithfully
| mas ne withstood Kruger. the monopolist
OF a. reasonable franchise, and fair.
aboye-board dealings. this Christian man
mas been forced into q war which his soul
aDn0rs. Having but few old men who are
anyIn1ng put farmers, good men for
Judges and other high positions in the
the supreme court Judges and other off,
clals are young men, say from twenty to
tnlrty-nve years of age. One Illicit LIQUOR
seller Who lived near us built our