Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-08-07
IRONTON. MO-. THURSDAY. AUGUST Z, 1902

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rifies-all the arm they care to use.
True, there is provision that each
burgher must have license before he
can keep rife, but the English official
attempting to enforce this provision
would not be good life insurance
risk. The English language was to be
substituted for the Dutch in their
schools and in their courts of law, but
the convention permits Dutch to be
used. There was to be no recognition
Of the two Boer governments, but the
president of one and the president
of the other were present at the con-
ference and took an active part in its
deliberations; one signing and the
other asserting to the articles. Under
no circumstances were the Cape Dutch,
who assisted their fellow countrymen at
the north, to receive amnesty, but
when the conference was over it was
found that they had been placed upon
the same footing as the citizens of the
Orange Free States, and the Trans
vaal Boer prisoners are to be shipped
back at English expense, and the two
| countries are to receive local self
government without unnecessary de-
lay. The blacks were to be enfran-
chised but that matter has been left
for the Beers to act upon when they get
their government machinery in oper-
alton.
When the English army once more
leaves that country they, as well as all
other we'll informed men, understand
that it will never go back. All
thoughts of making South Africa an
other India have been definitely given
up. There will be special govern
ment for the mining region, but the
Dutch will be left to work out their
own salvation. 1t will be found at
| the final wind up of the matter that
England only retains nominal
sovereignty over the country she has
spent billion and quarter of dollars
to obtain, not taking into the account
the thousands of her men dead and
disabled.
The war at its close extended over a
territory as great as that OF the United
States east of the Mississippi river.
England resorted to every device
known to either civilized or uncivil-
lied warfare to win, even adopting the
villainous recommendation camp sys-
tenn of Weyler, but it was of no use,
Notwithstanding the English army was
greater than the entire male popula-
ton of the two republics. England
was compelled to make peace that
leaves the Beers very much as they
were at the conclusion of the war in
1881.
Cecil Rhodes knew that his gigantic
schemes had failed long before his
death. 1t was a knowledge of this
fact that broke his heart and brought
him to comparatively an early grave.
Rhodes, initial mistake seems to have
been that he could not understand the
limitations of the power Of money.
He believed that every human being
has his money price. When Joseph
Cham berlain asked him if the Beers
would fight, he cynically replied that
they would prefer to be bought. He
lived to see his air castle tumble to
pieces. He played for the stake of an
empire, and when the game went
against him he folded his garments
about him and retired to the obscurlty
of the grave. The very syndicates in
whose interests the war was begun
turned against him and clamored for
peace-peace at any price short OF
their personal loss. South Africa will
remain in the hands of the native
Dutch race, because that race is the
greatest element in the population,
and its members have impressed their
ideas upon the country of their adop'
tion. A comparison of the results o1
the last war with those Of former wars
between the same foes, will show that
our contention is likely to prove cor
rect.