The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-04-07
WHAT JOE FOUND
IN SOUTH ERICA
CHAMBERLAIN DISCOVERED A
BITTER FEUD BETWEEN BOER
AND BRITAIN.


now knows much more about South Al
RIGA than he ever did before. AS a |
search for information and first-hand |
Impressions the tour very likely has !
been a triumph He visited every col |
ony except Rhodesia met scores of |
deputations, held numerous cJnferen-
ces and made countless speeches. In
it's educational effect upon himself the
trip must have been admirable, an / the
only regret that can be felt by anybody
is that Mr.. Chamberlain dbl not visit
the country before the war.
AS for the effect of the tour upon
South Africa, that is another question.
We cannot trust English newspapers
entirely in their accounts of the situa-
| ton, since their correspondents have
naturally felt the inclination to repre-
sent the mission as a great triumph of
cancellation, craftsmanship, firmness.
or whatever may be essential 10 the
colonial secretary's own victorious
march in the blackened and devastated
wake Of Butler, Roberts and Kitchen-
er. 1t is impossible to know whether
Mr.. Chamberlain has done much good
or not In dealing with the business
questions awaiting settlement he has
been very successful doubtless. The
question of how much the RAM mine
| owners should pay for the cost of the
much to the financial advantage Of
England. Mr.. Chamberlain was ~ his
best in squeezing the minins million
aires, and the British taxpayer is COR
respondingly grateful. The labor prob
lem was much more difficult, and could
not be settled at once. Mr.. Chamber
lain carries that home with him fur
further consideration, but with the
lprospe1. that the Mining interest Will
fiTT,l ia
system Of forced native lab II. Some Of
Mr. Chsmberlain's speeches indicated
that - VAS quite taken with the idea
that it would be a blessing 20 the KAT
fir to be compelled to work, whether
he needed to or not.
But important as those questions are
in the future of South Africa, they
hardly can take precedence of the qdes-
ton Of reconciliation between the ra-
ces. 1t is doubtful if Mr.. Chamber
lains tour at this point exercised a
beneficial effect, or did more than re-
veal the intense and bitter racial an
tagonism that exists among the white
people. Before the war ended Mr..
Chamberlain was accustomed to assure
the British taxpayers that South 4 fri-
ca would coalesce into a homogeneous
country under the British flag about as
easily as the North and South did after
the American civil war He was very
fond of that precedent, ignoring the
important fact that in America the
war left no race problem between white
men of different language and even
distinct antecedent nationality. The
| civil war left us "a race problem based
solely on the color line. But the Boer
war has left to England in South AZ
RIGA a Dutch English problem as we'll
rs negro problem of great magnitude
.NF 4 IL, -
full discoveries the past two months,
according to his own public confession,
has been the racial animosity between
Dutch and English now inflamed
many fold compared with its intensity
before the jameson raid and the war.
1t is a curious yet easily explaine ed
fact that this race hatred between the
English and Dutch inhabitants is least
in the TransVaal, is stronger in the
Orange River colony than north of the
Vaal river and is most furious ana
rampant in Cape Colony. Outside Of
Johannesburg the Transvaal popu,a-
ton is so preponderantly Dutch that
the internal race feud does not have
the chance to exist to such an extent
as it does farther south. There was
less real civil war in the Transvaal
, than anywhere else. In Orange River
colony, however, tine Dutch and Eng
. IlSH were more evenly divided ana the
y war was not a little internecine in
character. In Cape Colony of course
where the two races are mixed up in
eXtricably-the Dutch preponderatng
in numbers-the war was purely civil
} conflict taking on the technical char
acter of a rebellion against the crown.
There the British reprisals against the
BOer SympathiZerS took on a severe
form, for the Cape Dutch in arms were
slaI 3 1T.
belligerents. A number of hangings of
rebels took place to emphasize that
theory. With this in mind Mr. Cham
berlains experience as he progressed
from colony to colony can the batter be
I understood.
At Pretoria, the Boer deputa atoms
were civil, if glum; they were not dis
putatious or disposed to squeeze sun
shiny favors out of the Chamberlain
cucumber They seemed to agree in
thinking that they were whipped, and
they had no quarrels among themsei-
YES. Gen. Delarey was very polite to
the colonial secretary, woo also paid a
visit to Gen. CrOnje on his farm. The
atmosphere changed for the worse at
BloemfOntein. In Orange River colony
a bitter feud exists between the Beers
who followed Gen. De Wet Loyalty TO
the end and those who deserted to
ROBERTS ana Kitchener. The confer
enCe between Mr. Chamberlain and a
deputation headed by Gen. De Wee and
Judge Hertzog, was actually acrimo-
NOUS Mr.. Chamberlain got into a long
dispute with Judge Hertzog over a
petition the latter had read, and re
buked" the Boer leaders severely for
their alleged impudence in making
charges rejecting on the honor of the
| government After Mr.. Chamberlain
| I.N l.,
cordng to the London Chronicles re-
port, this incident:
Gen. DE Wet then rose 10 speak, but
Mr., Chamberlain motioned him TO sit
down. The general expressed regret
that a speech from him was not well