Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-03-23
Responsible for Failure of the
Peace Negotiations,
WEAKNESS OF GOVERNMENT
Daily Wall Denounces it-ColopiaI
Secretary Raised Demands as Fast
Ms Were Accepted.

New York. March GA dispatch to
the Tribune from London says.
The full text Of Lord Kitchener's ne
gouauons with Gen Botha has been re-
ceived with mixed emotions by The COM
mons and will probably open the way
for several desultory debates. The min
isterialists contend that the govern
ment is strengthened by the disclosure.
since the terms offered the Beers were
more generous than their leaders could
have expected and that the changes
made by Mr.. Chamberlain were proper
safeguards against burghers who had
shown a perverse talent for abusing
the confidence OF British generals. The
radicals have discerned in the modified
text OF the terms Of peace, convenient
pretext for renewing their attack upon
Mr. Chamberlain. They contrast the
original draft made by Lord Kitchener
with the amendment offered by Sir AL
fred Miner and with the numerous al
terations insisted upon by Mr. Cham
beTlain, and assert that the British and
Boer generals understood each other
and might have made peace II the off,
cious civilians had not interviewed with
unnecessary business and suspicious
ness. The answer made by Mr.. Cham
berlain's partsans Is that Gen, Kitch-
ener's peace would have been a hollow
truce, and that IL was fortunate that
England had in the colonial office a
strong man sufficiently resolute to pre-
vent an artificial settlement which
would have prolonged the period of
Boer agitation and restlessness and in
volved fresh campaign after a tenn
porary armistice.
While the opinions In the commons
are diverse respecting individual re-
sponsibility for the failure of the nego-
tiations, there is general agreement
that MIR. Chamberlain viii be placed on
the defense during subsequent debates
and that he will be forced into practical
leadership OF the party by aggressive
OPPOSITION tactics.
WEAKNESS OF GOVERNMENT.
London. March 29.-With the excep-
tiun II the pro-Boer organs, all the
morning papers comment upon the
peace negotiations and recognize that
the government has reached the utmost
point Of leniency.
The Daily Mail, which denounces the
weakness OF the government" in the
severest terms, says: III is startling
TO find that the government has cap
itulated on so many vital points. The
ministers have been willing TO concede
as much as any Little Highlander ad-
ministrator would dare 10 grant, and
thereby administered severe shock to
the oountry's confidence. our task in
South Africa will now be harder than
ever"
The Morning Post points 10 the sig
nificant fact that Lord Kitchener and
Sir Alfred Miner, the strong men on
the spot" were ready to go further in
oonciliation than Mr.. Chamberlain.
The Daily Mail calls the terms ex-
traordinarily liberal and thinks that no
parallel can be shown Of such indul-
gence to a vanqulshod foe, and II ex-
presses a hope that the governments
offer although rejected. when once II
becomes known 60 the mass of the
Beers they will make for peace
The pro-Boer Daily News. after OBJ
serving that "the overtures made from
the British side are not in the most dig
nified manner" say. The reason for
their rejection is quite plain. Gen.
Botha discovered, as Mr.. Kruger did
eighteen months ago. that MIR Cham
berlalu would raise his demands as
fast as they were accepted"
The papers in general critlclse most
strongly the dual language concession.