Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-04-27

gent routes to meet eventually at some
prearranged rendezvous. This means
that the Boer cOmmandos contain
many potential De Vets. There are
two categories Of them who would
probably not surrender even should
all the present recognized leaders ac-
cept an honorable peace. They are the
Cape Dutch, who have Joined the COM
mandos, and the poorer class of burgh-
erS.
The latter in time of peace are de-
pendent on the better off farmers,
brought to that by thriftlessness. Some
Of them had drifted into the poorer
quarter of johannesburg and were not
having much Of life. The present
condition Of these men, of at least the
younger among them, is the best they
have ever known. They are riding
about the country on horses that have
cost them nothing, living on COM
mandeered stock, enjoying some of the
confidence acquired in months of mo-
bile maneuvering. Moreover they are
burghers and entitled to all the honors
of war.
The recently drafted conditions of
peace are certainly more generous than
the Beers could have stood out for aft
er the fall of Pretoria, and for that rea-
son they can maintain that their fight
ing all these months has not been mere
purpOseless blOodshed. Should any
conditions even more favorable be Sc
cured, these men will be counted all
their lives by their kinsmen to have
performed great service for the
Dutch race in South Africa.
The other element which Is obviously
for continuing the struggle is the Cape
Dutch. 1t will be the most difficult
and dangerous part of Sir Alfred Mil
ner's work to satisfy the pro-Brttish
demand for punishment to be visited
on reasonable subjects and at the same
time to initiate any policy Of reconcile
alton.
The Cape volunteers with the Beers
are mostly very young men. Many OF
them are of good family and education.
1t is in their seats of learning that the
ardent idea Of an independent Afrikan-
Cape university 60 the sons of the pros
porous and progressive families up
country, whether in the north of Cape
Colony. in the Orange territory or the
Transvaal. Friendships made there
have been immensely strengthened by
this national ambition. The young men
will not have it that they are Beers.
They are Afrikanders, Il good number
of them of British extraction, and are
in training and temperament often the
antithesis of the veldt Boer, a man who
wants to be left alone. but has no con-
structive ambition in government
But these two elements. the young
burgher who has not a thriving time
under peace and the young Afrkan-
der who wishes to cut the halter. OF
British connection. undoubtedly form
the bulk Of England's enemies now in
the field. In the terms Of peace the
latter category are excluded from am
nesty and marked down to be tried for
treason after any settlement. The over
whelming opinion in England is GER
tainly for the punishment of the rebel
British subjects in the field. The con-
ditions have been almost universally
denounced there as far too lenient.
Against this there is the fact that
Kitchener, the man of blood and iron,
wished to offer Botha even more gen
erous terms than Miner or Chamber
lain would allow. He was inclined to
IA general amnesty for all fighting men
in the field Oh the ground of eXpedien-
cy. The resident quoted above says
that undoubtedly the question of am
nesty for the Cape Dutch is the great
obstacle to peace. He does not believe
that the Beers are thinking of indie
pendence, which in the present waste
condition of their country would be
disastrous position for them to find
themselves in. but he believes that they
will stand out to the last for some form
of representative government, such as
votes like all other white men. enabling
them to elect representatives of their
own race upon the advisory councils of
the new governor.
The idea of recalling Sir Alfred Mil
ner from that office he rejects as utter
ly impossible, besides being t1agrantly
unjust. The governor seemed to him
an absolutely just minded and level
headed man, but he hoped. as future
resident of the country, that Sir Alfred
would have elected men on his council:
otherwise 1t would be very difficult to
withstand the social influences of the
great financial houses Of the Rand.
This direct and immediate voice of
the resident Settlers both British and
Boer in the government of the new
colonies was the most important and
most imperative of all the conditions
likely to secure success. The grant Of
q million sterling to rebuild farms and
restock the lands commended itself as
a good national investment, besides
polite act. This British resident IA
vored the official use of both languages.
"Do you think there will be a recon-
Citation of the two races IN this gen.
Grafton ?" he was asked.
"Most certainly. There is nothing
lil,elv to nreyent their being friends in