Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1902-12-12
RESULT OF BOER WAR
Present Conditions Point to q Sort
of United States
Actively at Work for the
Rehabilitation Of the Two Ex-Rs.
publics-Amer1can Ideas
Prevail.

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There are two republics less in the
world than there were in 1899. This IS
one of the results of the war which has
Just been brought to a close. An elab-
crate scheme of federation. in which
the people of the subverted govern
ments will have local self-rule at an
early day and be in a league with the
rest of the British possessions in their
quarter of the world, is to be estab-
lished. This is another outcome OF
the same conflict, and n which was
not expected by many persons at the
outset. Some of the Boer fighting
chiefs who have laid down their arms
have been to London on a mission con-
nected with the settlement OF the
terms of surrender. They were enter
tanned by representatives OF the Brit
ish government, and there can be. no
doubt that the visit will be a pleasant
episode in their lives. As one of the
results of the present rapproachment
between British and Beers the Afrikan-
der-Bond, which is a sort of a league
between all the Dutch residents OF Al
RIGA, is to be dissolved, says the St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
The agencies which are certain to
make the rehabilitation of the two
ex-republics speedy and pleasant are
actively in operation. A large portion
of the population of both of them will
be British, Americans, Germans and
other non-Boers. Necessarily these
persons will get the same sort of treat
ment as the Beers, and they are vitality
interested in having the disabilities OF
the latter removed at the earliest pos
sible day. The crown colony status
would be even more Objectionable to
the Americans and Englishmen resid-
ing in the two Dutch states than they
would be to the natives themselves,
and they have a strong incentive for
making the transition to full self-gov-
eminent as short as possible. Already
some of these persons are presenting
this side of the question in the lead
ing London newspapers. This is q
side which will appeal with force to
the British ministry. The ministry has
a special reason to want to win the
favor of the Beers, and the way to do
this. as it we'll knows, is to make their
political conditions as agreeable to
them as possible, and to do this at the
earliest practicable moment.
Thus all the conditions point to the
creation of a sort of United States
of Africa among the different British
colonies which are contiguous. Eng
lands possessions in the whole CONT
nent of Africa, counting Egypt. which
nominally belongs to Turkey, but
which has been administered for man,
years by England and which she will
never give up, aggregate about 5000,
900 miles in area, or about the same a!
that.of the United States, exclusive o,
Alaska and the islands acquired ir
1898. About half of this area is il
South Africa, most of it being contigu.
Gus. The purpose evidently is to es.
tablish a union between all these con.
tiguous states on the Canadian an(
Australian plan. in which each will be
practically independent in local affairs
and have q voice in matters pertaining
to the whole federation. This will be
d sort Of United States of South At
RIGA. closely following the American
model. which has a great vogue amoue
British and British colonial statosmer
5 at the present time. american idea,
are making their triumphant wa,
: around the world. There will be re
: grets for the overthrow Of the two lit
; tie republics. but their people are ae
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