The age-herald., 1901-01-10
THE BOLD BOERS
 ek IN SMALL BANDS May Continue Hopeless Struggle For Months WILL BE WIPED OUT AT LAST We'll Mounted and Well Armed Maraud- CTS May Finally Have Active Aid of Cape Dutch-Vews of Former
 South African.
WILL BE WIPED OUT AT LAST

"The recrudescenee of the Boer evil and
 the recent changed conditions generally ih i South Africa must be disappointing to all
 well-wishers of civilization. and are clearly | discouraging to lovers of peace," said l Robert Boyle, who dwelt for several years
 in the land of the Boers. Mir. Boyle being asked last night by Age-Herald re-
 porter for his views concerning new cor,
 ditions in Boer-land.
 Everybody understands that only one
 final result is possible: the complete subju- ] gation of the Boers, and their civilization
 or extinction. Nobody any longer sees any
 question of ethics in the issue between the Boers and the British in so far as it may
 and their independence on high moral
 grounds are due either to ignorance of the actual facts or to bigotry of one sort or | another
 "A lower order of civilization, or a state | of no civilization at all, must give way to | higher and better forces. It always has 1 been so, and most notably and historically l in our American dealings with the In- | dians whom we cheated, robbed, slew or | drove away, one or all; it is so now in our | dealings with the Fiipinos, in England's s dealings with the Boers, and in the deal
 ings of the nations with China; and it all
 ways will be so always ought to be so.
 But the renewed activity of the Boers
 means that they will be enabled to do mucu l mischief before they are finally subdued l My knowledge of the Boers, their popula- l tion, their resources and their customs ob-
 tained by living amongst them though | happily not with them, impels me to the | view that the figures as to the number of
 Boers in the field against the British just
 now are greatly exaggerated. It is impos-
 sibe that there could be so many of the | warriors of the veldt still fighting as the | press dispatches would Indicate
 "Yet a comparatively few Boers can | greatly annoy the British and work no It, | tie damage, for they well mounted | lightly but most effectively armed, are | strong, tough, courageous, and capable of l extraordinary degrees of endurance. They | appear to be moving as small bands or | marauders; they can move with great l quickness from one point to another, and ! will be able to cut off small parties of the | British and harass larger bodies of troops | This sort of warfare, if warfare it may | be called, may continue for weeks, or per | haps months, and it will necessitate the | presence and ceaseless activity of large l army of British soldiers, which will not | have much real fighting to do, but which | will have to be on the move and the alert | ali the time, and meantime the mere duty | of garrisonng will require thousands of the | British. If the Boers would stand up and | fight, that would be the end of them, but
 that is just what they will not do.
 'The end of his remarkable war is in | sight, but it is not at hand.
 l AS for the Cape Dutch, many of whom have been always traitors, their final atti- | tude may depend upon the result of possi- | ble battle in or near Cape territory. If | tne Boers should win such a battle, the | Cape Dutch, do not doubt, would in thous- | ands attach themselves to the Boer cause | openly, as they have been always in secret "The Cape Dutch in great numbers are armed and drilled, fully prepared for fight | ing, and they await promising oppor- 1 tunity only to rebel against the British. | The best chance and hope lie in martial law | for the Cape. If the British shall deal with 1 traitors as traitors, the end will come very ] quickly. With Lord Roberts away and Sir l Alfred Milner now in virtually supreme l civil control of all British territory, the | world may look for more rigorous and more | effective dealings with the obstreperous | Boers and traitorous Cape Dutch.''
 | This makes already a liquidation of obli- | gations ahead of the common stock to the | extent of $32 800 par value and securities in | tha hapl de of Inc frt,c ,Iioat t1Ia f b,