The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-01-11

PROBLEM Fob CHAMBERLAIN.

SPECIAL BY CABLE To THE Il YORK
HERALD II 81. LOUIS EE"tB-,C.
London. Jan. l~O.-pCopyriGh,. !s'2)-TEe
name os Ge,cn'ees uH. su!ieniy become
famous. The gentleman who OWING il WAS
selected to propose tee toasts to Lord Mil
ner's. health at the diaaer siyea IN NJ.
Chamberlain honor by the oihrlal populi-
ton or Pretoria.
During the wa-. 1e used 10 Dc .o'l wiki
rather wearisome frequency what waa
thought by tho Man on the SPOT" ard TIE
Man In tn, Street" Some s9rria, advantages
belorg 10 the Ma on lis Legs" Z he
knows, as Nj. Greealsss ov.d 2tiy knows.
how to use them. II he had been asked 20
speak he is entitled 10 he heard. tie can
not decent!y b. interrupted.
At this festive cuJe-ta!-r1 nj Nj. Green
lees. after the compliments applicable to
such occasions. delivered himself 81 an
epigram which viii not SON be fc:s1tten.
A Grown colony. he said. was ali very
well. but they wanted a little legs Grown
and a little moro "colony.'
CHAMBERLAIN'S POSITION.
Mr.. Chamberlain. in his radical days,
would have applaud5d this sentiment. To
Mr.. Chamberlain it mast seen almost as
Fox's toast-"Our Only Sovereign. he Ma
jority of the People'-seCGleG - George Ill
There are a SGeat many EnIIlsh.ncn who
quite sincerely believe thai = Crown colony.
which means a bureaucratic deSp. t"n IL
the best possible form OF government for
DutchflSl. hG. tnat II Is q eouG lbiH %
government for Engii=hmen no one. unless
II be Lord Miner. supposrs.
Lore Miners German tanning has not
disposed him % set a high value N personal
freedom and representative institulicr5. 5s
compared with administration efficiency.
but Mr.. Chamberlain. though he has gone
through many changes. mas always been a
parliamentary statesman and 1t Is q great
advantage that he should h. brought INTO
contact with his own country men In the
Transvaal as well as with the Beers.
Lord Miner. in his genial. gcOt-hunlorc1
reply TO Mr.. Greenlees. spoke of transfer
ring his responsibility to the Lieutenant
Governor OF the Transvaal. Sir Arthur
Iawl.y. He might do worse. for Sir Ar
thurs Australian experience has taught him
what a British community expects from
those set I'm authority over II.
OLD QUESTION OF HOME RULE.
But this question Of home rule SO
promptly and abruptly raised by Mr.. Green
tary OF State himself.
If MIR. Chamberlain were in Downing
street he might postpone. though even there
he could not .eVa0e. a solution
Being by his own choice at Pretoria. he
must make up his mind at once.
There is nothing more likely to unite the
Dutch with the British than a legitimate
demand for a reasonable measure of self
government. If they combine they cannot
safely he resisted. for the colonial empire
of Britain rests upon the principle OF home
rule.
Pretoria in the most cordial manner. with
abundance of that gratitude which depends
in a lively sense upon favors to come. but
his position there is not quite the same as
1t was in Natal. where the Dutch are such
an Insignificant minority that they hardly
count. and where the Government was cas-
ily persuaded to abandon the preposterous
claim upon the mother country for the
losses caused by the war.
Mr.. Loveday, n former bCrgher of the
South African Republic, who presided at
the Pretorian banquet. expressed the very
sensible opinion that Pretoria, and not Jo-
hannesburs. should be the capital of the
colony.