The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-06

this was u prime motive leading to the
federation now accomplished, 1t also
city for keeping the law -inakng and law
enforcing powers wholly I'm tho hands OF
the whites.
The native question. Il is not too much
70 say, is the most serious problem be-
fore the peoples OF South Africa, and with
this is to be included the question Of
the Asiatic Native labor has proved tt
self practically without exception un-
trustworthy. and so, especially In crown
colony days. the mInc owners imported
thousands Of Chinamen and considerable
proved themselves undesirable citizens;
they will not amalgamatc with those
among whom they have come to live,
their standard Of life is invariably diff
ferent and usually lower. and there has
everywhere been manifested against them
that aame indctnablo but dangerously
real race prejudice" which had produced
trouble for tho authorities along the Pa
cihc coast of North America-both In the
United States and In Canuoa-and In
Australia New Zealand and Hawaii:
In, particularly disagrecahle position in
all this. insofar the Bindoo Is con-
cerned. for IL ne not her citizen as we'll
as boer or Briton?-and lnvidious treat
inent OF him in South Africa Is rot the
best way to pour oil on the troubled po-
liIicaI waters now secthng and boiling
in his East Indian homeland
Gladstone and Botha.
| The man who first sets hand to this
| nome too easy work is Herbert John
Gladstone, viscount who was np-
| pointed governor general by King Ed
ward last November. The third son oc
| England's grand old man was home
| secretary at the time. and there was
many a student OF affairs who wondered
what there had been in his five years
tenure OF that cabinet position TO war-
rant his elevation to a post which would
seem to demand the highest sort of abil-
lty-to call for. indeed, another Lord
Cromer; II is 10 be remembered. how
ever, that Mr.. Gladstone. who looks no
more than 40, though he has passed So,
goes out with three splendid assets TO
his credit: he has had the training and
experience OF thirty years in public life,
capacity for mastering detail. and he Is
ut once enthusiastic and optimistic Let
! II be added too. that his appoin tment
| (though IT left the house OF commons
| without Gladstone member for the
| first time since 1s32D was distinctly ap-
| propriate, and this not because Il was
| announced almos; TO a day on the CEN
tenary OF his great fathers birth bur
because IL was the fulfilling of true po-
| etic justice that the son OF the man who
| had authorized the MaiUba Surrender -
whereby England seemed to have lost
| South Africa forever, should first be he
| who was to head Englands s realest power
| there.
The viscount's earliest official act was
| in Keeping with all this, He invited
Louis Botha TO form the first cabinet
and General Botha accepted the task-a
| concise statement. which enshrires "A
world Of "Reminiscences as OF hope, There
| is an eloquence in those few words which
neither orator nor historian could easily
| excel. One has but to carry back his
| memory through ten years OF crowded
time Victoria was still on the throne !.
the king who lies today in the vaults OF
st. Georges chapel was merely the POD
ulay but DClilIcally unknown princs OF
Wales; the cloud of war hung dark over
the empire: almost everywhere Great
Britain was regarded with dislike, IL not
with outspoken hatred. And down IN
South Af,ica this same Louis Botha was
waglng a hopeless, bitter. futile contest
against the imperial troops. The Boer
back had been broken British garrisons
held all the towns. Miner was rcorgan-