The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-05-04
HARIZELL ON THE BOER WAR
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Kruger himself represents the most eN- treme anti-black sentiment. The Dutcn Reformed church in Cape Colony ana Natal which has been under one nun dred years of English law, fair deallng
 to the black man, as well as eXainple shows a different record. They nave missions among the blacks, and they have some most excellent people who are giving their time and money to this great work, although there is a large conservative sentiment even in that sec tion against them in their own church, On the other hand, in Cape Colony the constitution allows no difference on ac- count of color in church or state natives walk where they please in street or on sidewalk, they trade under the same conditions as Briton or Boer, and own all the land they can buy, have the same marriage laws as others, education is encouraged among them, ana the government gives assistance to any properly organized native school and spends many thousands of pounds every year in helping to educate the blacks and as climax the blacks have the franchise and vote on the same con ditions as their white neighbors As a result, there are many thousands of na- tives under English rule who are not only intelligent and educated, but who have property, and the natives very largely support their own schools and preachers and churches. Could there be a more positive contrast than the above laws and administration indicate? And to all this the brutality, especially of Transvaal officials, toward natives. One of the many instances is the treatment which General Cronje recent ly gave to a native chieftainess and her people. On letter written by one of his own men, which he read to her. without giving her any opportunity of reply or rebuttal, he fined her nearly $700, and gathering together thirteen of her advisers, fogged them, giving to each twenty-six lashes, and when each one refused to say thank you, another lash was added They had done nothing wrong themselves, but he claimed ought to have advised her better The case was taken to the courts and the judge decided that the fine should be returned, which has never been done. And Gen eral Cronje became the chief native commissioner, and the two men who conducted the f1ogging were made spec ial envoys to study the conditions of the natives in that section Every black man in America, and every well wisher of the black man in America and else- where ought to pray for the triumph of British arms in South Africa. The i'm mediate occasion of the war was the treatment of the Outanders in the Transvaal The Transvaal has been government administered on the basis of preference instead of principle. Un- der British rule there is absolute equal ity of privilege and protection to all white men, and under that rule the Boers have advanced in intelligence and wealth There have been many inter marriages and if it had not been for the organized conspiracy at Pretoria, deter mined to check the advance of right principles in government as applied to all white men, irrespective of race or language, the Briton and the Boer would have had no war and together they would have risen and prospered in all respects.
 We have only to read a list of the laws now in force in the Transvaal as affecting the Outlanders to understand how irrepressible the conflict has been and that sooner or later there must be a change in these laws or revolution in some form.
 Take the law of franchise, or rather unfranchise An Outlander must be forty years of age; he must own prop erty; a majority of the burghers in his Iictrt ot ct In Writjpp their desire that he be made a burgher; he must not be objected to by the state secretary or the president; and as a climax unparalleled in civilized govern ment. his son born in the Transvaal takes the political status of his father. These laws disfranchise for all time everybody in the Transvaal except the 2B,o00 voters claimed by the burghers and their descendants. It Is to be re- membered also that the burghers com- mence voting at sixteen, so that very large percentage of the voters who con trol that country are boys utterly in competent in intelligence or experience to form a judgment on great issues. And 1t must be remembered that nine tenths of all the Boer voters in the Transvaal are men of not only limited intelligence as to civil government, but are dominated by narrow, prejudiced views, It is the 210,000 Outlanders, the great majority of whom have gone to that healthful climate to a permanent home, whose rights are outraged. It will require from thirty to fifty years to dig out the gold in the immediate vicinity of Johannesburg, and with just government there will be at least 300,
 900 citizens in that section alone in few years, to say nothing of other great conters of wealth which will be opened up. And to seek to justify the absolute disfranchisement of this great mass of enterprising and intelligent people from having any voice in the civil govern ment of the country is monumental ab- surdity
 The Transvaal sealed it's doom as a
 permanent government in it's present form in August, 1895, when it threw aside by a vote of IS to in the upper Raad, a petition containing over 35,000 names acknowledged to be genuine, ask ing for some slight modification of the franchise. The debate on that petition makes an exhibition of ignorance as to the first principles of civil justice and of narrowness of vision that is appal-