The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1902-01-01
BRITISH POLICY CAUSTICALLY DENOUNCED.
ondon Editor Says Chamberlan Head to Kruger on
Charger as Penance. Declares That South Africa IS
Lost to the British Empire

OF the Cn4cag0 RecorQ-Herald, mas latt
hy had an interview with William I
STEAD, in which the famous Londo
Journalist, with characteristic fore
land fearlessness, gives his views o
Great Britain's troubles at home ant
bn South Africa.
Mr.. Wellman quotes Mr.. Stead a.
Saying:
South Africa is irretrievably lost tt
Rhe British empire, but that will prove
IA blessing in the end. This end should
have come sooner. That is what
complain about. We have sacrificed
too many lives. endured too much suf-
fering, for that which was inevitable
from the start. 1t is a great pity that
Kruger did not take advantage Of the
conditions which prevailed in that
rblack week of December and march
straight down to the Cape. That would
have brought the end quickly enough
and saved a lot of bother. But now
people say the war has gone on so long,
we have made so many sacrifices, that
we must see it through and have our
way. They say it doesn't now matter
much whether we were right or wrong
at the start. But say, right or wrong
does matter. 1t is the only thing of
vital Importance now or at any other
time.
"The only end see is that we lose
South Africa. We may in time whip
out the Beers. That is not the trouble.
The trouble is that we shall be utterly
unable to control the uitlanders. After
we have whipped or killed the Beers
for their benefit they will be able to do
as they please. The uitlanders live in
the cities, and they will run the gov
ernments. If we had loyal agricul-
tural population to depend on, we might
manage them, but the agriculturists
will be our bitter enemies. The Dutch
will never be reconciled. The uitland-
ers-many of them not British at all.
many Of them INSCRIPTIONS adventur-
ers, with no permanent interest in the
country-will never be satisfied.
"At first Wen try holding the uitland-
ers down with garrisons, but when
nitlander for ambition and Dutchman
for revenge join hands the garrisons
will be swept into the sea and South
Africa will go to the devil. so far as the
British empire is concerned.
1--WE shall be lucky if we save Cape
Town and Simon's Bay out of the
wreck. But these we must have. be-
cause Cape Town is the keystone or
the imperial arch 1t guards the ocean
route to India. and every one knows the
Gibraltar-Suez route will go to pieces
in thirty days after we go to war with
a first class power. Our troubles Will
only have begun when we have ami
Inflated the fighting Beers and ended
the war. Before the war it took only
5000 British soldiers to guard our In
terests in South Africa. Chamberlain
himself says that after the war it will
flag flying down there.
kruger has always hoped the Brit
ish would repent. That is his hope
today. That is what he is waiting and
fighting for. 1t is true that it is only
by repentance that we can be saved,
but there are few signs of contritlon
at the present moment. The British
masses have become so besotted, SO
drunk with blood and conquest that II
tomorrow news were to come that by
outIawry, rapine and murder the last
Boer had been wiped off the face OF the
earth. a wild, hoarse scream OF JOY
would go up from British press ana
people. They would say. We'll, this
is something like business at last
1.-THE one encouraging sign of the
times is that this war has proved
tremendous reinforcement of generai
peace England has borne the burden.
and all civilization is to share in the
profits. The cost of modern war is so
enormous in money that capital ana
commerce will not permit nations to
make war. 1t is too expensive. III II
costs Great Britain f200.000,000 to put
down two little republics numbering
all told not more than 10000 men able
to bear arms. what would 1t cost
France to beat Germany or England
to beat Russia? In this war, too. de-
struction on the sea played no part.
We had unlimited freedom OF the
ocean. A war between two first class
powers on land and sea would be a
war of economic destruction so enor-
nous that. practically speaking. war IS
now an impossibility. Mammon will
not permit Mars to exploit himself.
ain passing. l may remark that the
American mule has cost the British
empire a hundred millions of pounds.
If it had not been for the shipment Of
mules and horses from America to
South Africa, the Beers would have
had us whipped long ago. You are
good traders. you Yankees, especially
whenSy you can sell without danger. II
the Beers were bigger, you would not
have been SO free to help the English.
Your mule has been of far more help
to the British than the Alabama was
to the Confederacy. but you'll not have
to pay for your wrongdoing. The Beers
have no naval power.