Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1902-11-23
Reaches the Transvaal Through Natal to
Escape Their opportunities
WILL FIND TOUGH PROBLEMS TO SOLVE
Bitter Racial Feeling in Cape Colony as
Well as In Transvaal. "a.
MINING MAeNATEs CAUSE DEPRESSION
and Does Not show Colleagues
the Courtesy of Com
suIting Them.

Copyright 1902 by Press Publishing Coz
LONDON, Nov. 22.--(New York World
Cablegram-Special Telegram Colonial
Secretary Chamberlains visit to South
Africa is to be attended with regal state
never before permitted to any envoy other
than a personal representative Of the
king The tour will last until March, more
than three months. The new frst-class
cruiser Cape Of Good Hope, which was
presented to the British imperial navy by
the Cape government in the halcyon days
before the Boer war. is being gorgeously
fitted up for Mr.. and Mrs. Chamberlain
and the secretary's stan. The war ship
will sail next Tuesday for Durham, Natal,
where the party will disembark.
Mr. Chamberlain will first investigate
the condition OF the colony Of Natal, where
the grievances are~far less acute, because
the British numerical preponderance is
overwhelming. He will be accompanied on
the tour through the British South African
colonies by large military staff but 1t Is
thought that he will only stop in Durham,
Pretoria, johannesburg, Mafeking, Bloem-
fontein Kimberley and Capetown.
The politicians Of Capetown who played
an important part in engineering the war
strongly resent Mr. Chamberlains landing
in Natal, as they had planned to capture
him before he had seen the country and
Investigated the condition of affairs for
himself. An extraordinary variety OF the
most complex and menacing problems
arising from destitution, race hatred and
labor discomfort await settlement by the
expected magic Of his touch.
Bitter Racial Feeling.
dispatch from johannesburg to the
Daily Mail this week says that travelling
correspondent now in Cape Colony reports
A bitter racial feeling permeates every
town and village. The bond (cape Dutch)
propaganda is completely in the ascendant
and the position OF the loyalists is abso-
lutely hopeless.
These loyalists demand that the consti-
tuition be suspended as the only measure Of
reducing the Dutch majority to subsection.
aRnt ft is calculated that this would mean
the maintaining OF garrison OF 10000
British soldiers in Cape Colony. SO the de-
mand is not likely to commend itself to
Chamberlain.
The mining magnates are producing an
artificial depression on the Rand (gold
helds) about johannesburg in order to make
case against the proposition to tax the
mines to defray the cost Of the war.
They are also raising an outcry over the
scarcity Of native labor. SO that they may
get permission to import Chinese coolies to
work the mines. The European miners.
who foreseP In that the destruction OF their
means OF livelihood, are in a condition Of
smoldering revolt. The Beers who have
returned from exile to fnd their families
wasted away In the concentration camps
their houses burned to the ground, their
stock gone and their farms derelict, will
have to be pacifed and transformed into
contented citizens. These are few OF the
most pressing matters demanding settle-
ment at Mr.. Chamberlain's hands.
Discretion IL Unfettered,
His discretion is unfettered. Indeed nc
British minister, least of all one holding
a subordinate ONCE, has ever assumed the
same pretensions to dictatorship in his OWL
department as Mr.. Chamberlain has done.
He does not seem to pay his colleagues
the courtesy of even appearing to consult
their views, and they are quite free to give
him a free hand to extricate the colonies
from the terrible condition to which his
policy has reduced them.
II the South African war had been the
greatest political and military achievement
In British annals instead of the most costl!
and calamitous, his self-satisfaction coulC
not be more supreme or his popularit!
greater. His megalomania carried him 4
the length OF issuing to the people o
Birmingham a message OF thanks for thei
reception modelled exactly on the lines o
the one promulgated by the king after hi