Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-06
. O CONSULATE BO[RS
Secretary chamberlain Anxious
to Grant Request Of the
Boer Generals.
English Public Much Concerned
Over the COME renee Held
Friday.
Bsitish Residents in South Africa
Anfered It the Governments
Leniency.

London, Sept. 6.-Nothing important
result of the conference held yester-
day at the colonial office between Co
lonial Secretary Chamberlain and Boer
Generals Bptha, Dewet and Delares,
There will be, however. slight moditi-
cations Of the plans outlined for re-
Aettlement of matters in the annexed
territories. but this will be natural in,
kernal changes, more interesting to po-
3itical economists than to the world at
ker Chamberlain shall have consulted
with Lord Miner British high COM
enfsstoner in South Africa and after
such consultation, have laid the matter
before the cabinet.
What transpired at yesterdays con-
ference Is little more than what hap
pened. when one OF the members of the
cabinet receives a trade or other del
legation in support OF its particular
Views. No topic really vital to the con-
Auered republics, so far as their rela-
tions to the outside world is concerned.
could be admitted to discussion. Such
points were irreyocably settled when
the terms Of peace were signed. The
Eoncessions which the Boer generals
urged Chamberlain to make We're al
most vitally important to individual
Beers, especially to land owners, but of
comparatively small Importance to the
rank and file in England, EXCEPT to
those who, thru investment or other
wise, are directly concerned in South
Africa. Except for breaking of prece-
dents hampering Lord Miner or an
Hagonizing liberalists of Cape Colony
and Natal 1t may safely be said Cham
beriaan might easily have conceded all
the generals asked. These exceptions,
however, involve so many wheels with
In wheels that the discussions are likely
10 be protracted with result that will
snndrannaIic denouements do not enter
combine as much of compromise as is
consistent with imperial dignity. Half
way courses and undramatic denoue-
snents do not enter into the reckoning
spf the English public, whose imagina-
N1pn has been unusually fired by the ac-
counts Of Fridays conference. Moth
lng has so forcibly brought home TO the
average Englishman the end of the war
Is the visit of the Boer generals to
Chamberlain's Office and it is possible
the results are magnified out of ali
reckoning. TheI British government
will give the Beers all it can in d de-
sire to gain their cooperation in the
establishment. of the new regime, but
already there Is a good-sized storm
brewing among the Beers of Cape Col-
ony, Natal and Rhodesia, and among
the British residents of South African
colinies. over what is termed THE I'm
periai governments anxiety to reward
4 hisloyalty and aggression.
One of the colonial premiers recently
said to representative of the Associ-
ated Press:
..Chamberlain is more scared now by
The South African loyalists than he
ever was by the Beers. With such
conditions prevailing, it is obviously
Impossible for Chamberlain to immed-
lately secure any important conces-
eions for the Beers, even tho, he may
recognize the justice of their claims