The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-15
A Story of Persistent Perse-
cution and Invasion.
"PERFlDIOUS BETRAYAL
A Repetition of the Same Old Nefari
Gus Game Of Britain.
THE DUTCH IN THE BATTLE OF THE TExeL
the Recent War Of Devastation and Cruelty Has
Been Almost One OF determination.
What michael DayittSays in
His New Book.

UHot HtSuoCt
His New Book.
Comparatively few people know of the
aggressions of the English upon other
peoples; their pugnacity and pertinacity
in conQuests. They are indeed the
modern Romans. and as warlike race
as this world has ever seen. They love
to fight, and to interfere with othe peo-
pies, and are indeed colossal invaders
and conquerors. An intelligent reader
who will study Green's volume on the
Making of England" then his four
volumes, History of the English Peo-
ple," and read with much carefulness
the first 100 or ITO pages on that mas
terly work of Tame on English Litera-
ture,'' volume I, will know more of the
formation and growth of English char
acter than he has ever been able to
know before. But my theme now Is not
English character, past and present, but
the English and Dutch peoples in the
past. The nearly three years war Of
destruction and conquest in South Africa,
just ended, makes this subject interesting.
Once more the Dutch people have become
a subject of much importance-a people
once so prominent in European history,
and who were indeed an enterprising,
daring and very brave race. Let us make
brief study through the help of others.
1t is through English eyes We will make
the study, for this writer is English by
descent on both sides, father and mother,
his ancestry on the side of the former
having been in this country since A. ID.
1880, and known to have been in Eng
land at least as far back as the eighth
century We will use the eyes and I'M
derstanding of one of the contributors to
one of the three or four greatest of
English Reviews. The Dutch have been
heroic fighters through several centuries
"a stubborn, brave, daring nation. and
scarcely with a modern rival save in
the English themselves. The study of
the English and Dutch races in the past
began afresh in Great Britain after the
vile war of devastation and obloquy and
saxagery started against the Dutch Beers.
One of the very foremost of the great
English Reviews is the Nineteenth Cen
the new century began.
| wish l had the space to follow the
British writer's in regular sequence, to
tive of the two fighting races, equal to
any the world ever knew. It is a fact
that the Netherlands did more than
England did under Elizabeth to break
the force of the Spaniards. They lost
terribly, however, under Charles the
Fifth of Spain (put at 100000 victims),
and 10000 under the bloody Duke of
Alva, who was the Weyler and Kitchener
and Jake Smith of his day. The reviewer
says that ''the multitudes of the soldier
that lay at Harlem, Leyden and Macs
tricht, and the 100000 dead at Osteno,
had saved not only Holland but England.
Note that.
The Dutch were great discoveries as
well as fighters. AS early as A. D. 1894.
they "sent Linschoten to seek in the
Arctic seas a northwest passage to India.
they sailed round the Cape to Java in
1885, and through the Straits of MageI-
Ian in 149S, exploring at once the North
and the South Poles. The names of their
discoveries are scattered over the oceans,
Spitzbergen and Cape Horn, Vancouver
Island and Van Diemen's Land, New
Holland and New Zealand" They pub
lished map in 1894 of their discoveries.
But wherever they went they were at
once followed by the English If they
founded Batavia, then as now the CAPT.
tai or their commercial empire in the
East, If they settled in Borneo, Cochin
China, Amboyna, and the Spice Islands.
and secured the trade of India, japan.
and Ceylon (1602-1612), the English were
ever close on their track, passing from
Benin 158S) into the Indian seas send
ing rival traders to the Spice Islands
and Ceylon, to Java and Japan Q6O6-
1879. When the Dutch, turning from
the Pacific to claim the whole Atlantic
formed a West Indian Company with a
monopoly of trade from Africa to Amer
lea, from Magellan to Newfoundland
(1607, the English too sailed west" And
on 1T went. for there is much else given
of the same kind. If you will consult
the able review named you Will be
amazed, first, at the great enterprise and
holiness of the Dutch, and, second, with
the eager persistency with which they
were watched by the English. who even
strove to rival them. The Dutch had
100 ships in the Gold Coast trade, and
800 whaling ships. This was in 1903
Whenever the Dutch in any way ven
tured to interfere with the alleged rights
of the English, a great clamor was
raised, and they 'repudated the doc
trine of the great Dutchman Grotius
that the seas were free to all. and
claimed sole right in at least a hundred
miles round every British coast" They
M0r contended that "the notion of free
was against the sene of all peoples 4"
e the Dutch. How long did England
lie by that pretention? Only until it
anne its interest to violate it. We
to skip many interesting pages and
without a word The Nineteenth
ury and After reviewing later
s-after 1861 to 1672-says:
he English had neither considered
appreciated the stubborn love of
ry and of liberty that marked the
Holland. They held to the good old
~ OF petty people of shopkeepers.
tous plans of spoliation revived.
ark that, plans of spoliation reyiy
That shows it was nc new thing
England. After awhile war ragged
s@een the two peoples, and the great
Review says: From the moment when