New-York tribune., 1907-09-21

LORD MILNER's WORK IN SOUTH AFRICA.
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Mr.. Worsfold is plainly a partisan one of
those ImperiaIsts who regard Lord Milner as
the great pro-consuI OF the last half century of
British history. IN his opinion every dispatch
that Lord Miner wrote. and every speech he
made. while High Commissioner In Africa.
characterized by the most consummate states
manship. He has no excuse to make for the
Jameson raid; to him it was only an illegti-
mate and disastrous application of otherwise
meritorious and successful effort to strengthen
the British hold on South Africa by private
terprise. 1t at once, he argues. the measure
OF imperial inefficiency and its
In his survey of conditions in South Africa
before the war, Mr.. Worsfold has the advantage
OF having lived in Cape Colony for two years
in the middle eighties, and OF having spent
year in Johannesburg after the war came to
an end. But he scarcely be well acquainted
with other British colonies he would have
realized that the lack Of full success in British
colonization in South Africa has been due TO
other conditions besides those to which he is
disposed to attribute It. He lays great stress on
the nationality problem and the native question
as forces inimical to such success has attend
cd the settlement of Australia. New Zealand and
Canada. But while he acknowledges the polit
cal difficulties he overlooks the important
fact that at time has South Africa been
popularity regarded in the same light as either
Canada OF Australia. Englishmen who emigrate
to either of those countries emigrate to estab-
lish a home and soon become Canadians or
Australians. Their children are educated where
they are born, and as they grow up not one in
thousand regards England as his home On the
other hand. men go out from England to South
tn n trade Or business take
I'D government appointments, and they do not
regard themselves as emigrants. Their purpose
is to make money more quickly than would be
possible for them in England, and they are al
ways looking forward to the return home. 1t
is the same with the English artisans who go
out to Cape Town, Durham johannesburg
They have no thought of staying for good.
The native difficulty has enormously affected
South African conditions. but not in the way
most emphasized by Mr.. Worsfold 1t is due
to the native that industrial emigration from
England to South Africa has always been so
small. There is place in South Africa for
the Englishrnan vino must labor with his hands
no place for men Of the class whom CANADA
to-day is receiving by the tens of thousands
from Great Britain. II is for this reason that
Mr.. Worsfold has little to say about Lord
Miners work after the peace at Vereeniging.
Mr. Chamberlain it will be remembered
sanguine that when the war came to an end the
stream of emigration from England to Canada
and Australia would be diverted to South Africa.
For little while Canada was nervous lest this
might be result of the war But Mr.. Cham
berlain was oversanguine and Canada need
lessly alarmed for almost since the
came end the monthly bulletins of the
Emigration Department at Whitehall have
warned emigrants not TO go to South Africa,
as there is call there for white labor.
of Canada and Australasia, been possible
in South Africa, British success in colonization
there might have been quite as well marked and
as satisfactory. It is because these conditions
are so different. and likely for generations
TO come to remain different, that the story of
the British settlement of South Africa is so
largely of failure and Of war. Englishmen