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

,.-e. birth Of the u. S. a
a .,nter 4. 1910; Birth OF the U. S. A.
's. mich merely means that this
Y ,s,cc has witnessed the coming
,,u,rs of tho world OF a new
'a- srh, Union OF South Africa.
~, coincidence OF the initials viii
'S ~ our own big lann rs puS on aitu
I2aph ,th W and east in recognition or
h eyes of Yesterday. For when The
efent os,nnauyht, " uncle To King
p OF sscIared open the first parlia-
x6 VI ncw-born state, definite and
1t % .nu was given to what may well
y imPsod the most important Inter
cpls,' 1hnnnening o. of 1910. Even Portu-
Iona hn m Is permanently TO be enrolled
y En- shc republics, has not so mark
.rne evidence to the present-day
a march of constituJlonalism as
;,Sis Official fellowship oil soer ana
!p's d,stinctlv the greatest achieve
u ,he liberal ministry which rules
y EnrIand, and showing again our
- iOnS L,S as supremely the foremost;
|-~i.ruaking peoples.
<saaous for and Against Union.
~. uas every reason for The unions
osI .e No natural boundaries scpa-
A sbe four South African colonies
\ cnlony, Natal. Orange RIVER and
great rivers. no In
.rao',ntain chains. Unity promised
- ansrx way: a single plan and pur-
" rl.s,Id help solve the vastly import
|.~~ensnortation question, would sim
1sha matters OF policing and labor
- vbiic most vital OF all, II would
~, ,,n.sible that united front which
liz inhabitants Of the country
nresent to the native population.
~ four now self governing prov
keys 10 show "A total of less than
"A whites as against more than p
me- other hand. every racial reason
"A haye seemed to prevent Il fedora
"a English and Dutch. Day before
Law il would have been openly and
-sfjr proclaimed impossible, What
a Dom Paul Kruger and Cecil Rhodes
I ma of It's chances? Ten years ago
"A the land was the theater OF Il
r5sIIng some $500. o00, 900 and I0o. 900
Exactly ten years ago the hither-
|rdependent burgher republics OF
~ River and the Transvaal were
IN annexed TO Great Britain, But
in OF 1906 saw free constitution
||ed the last-named state (all the Lit
Flanders cried out in mingled alarm
cyuicIsm at Campbell -Bannernnn'
-1ed "siIliness"D and the next spring
I nd much done for Orange River.
rear, after far less hemming and
|oz than usually accompanies go mo-
|ras a move. the representatives OF
lour colonies. at Durham, Natals
|1I agreed upon the terms OF a pro-
4 Constitution: within three months
fondon parliament had o. KID II: !
The first day OF last July the union
offlcially proclaimed-and yesterday
7heels Of Its complex machinery were
ID motion. not by a Prince of Wales |
had been the original plan. for
fe Frederick had become George V.
6Ehlle, but by the brother OF the |
King
liant in Size-Underpopulated!
hat does ibis latest conner into "Old |
|nd's imperial quartettc" amount to? |
|und shoulder TO shoulder with Can
md Australia and New Zealand she I
y have something more than the |
4 70 show-and she has. Cape Col
With 100000 square miles within
borders. surpasses Texas in size,
y and with this the Zululand terri
Is 10 be included (26.200 square
5s goes West Virginia some 1000
20 miles Oetter. the Orange Free |
i4S30Q square miles) is another
ziann, and The Transvaal U13.l39
and Arizona. The total area OF 455,
q niles lies midway between Ne
squnrc miles falls biz below that
pr 0ye Gulf states. is something a
'c,ter than seven times as much as
mtraced in the common wealths of
England. or is a good quarter of a
on square miles, more than one
oi the total OF our Immediate forty
Biates.
glance ct the map shows what is not
v included. North Of tie new do
on on the farther banks OF the Linn
and Molopo rivers: lie the vast
9 of Becnanaland and Rhodesla,
1sn which winds the big Zambcsi,
ewes covering nearly half q million
le miles, and simply waiting for the
'snt when Ii shall be desira BILE TO
'p~ale them, too, In the Unions do
Y North OF that again, along the
Oh Lakes Nyasa and Tanganyil1a.
'le immense territory of British Cen
Atncs, branching, as IL were. east
ecst, to where the holdings OF Brit
1ast africa and British West Africa
y me shores OF the Indian and At
q oeeans, The possibility OF a fed
2n OF all this is, of course, a policy
g IN the clouds" but just that IS
!. elllmate ldea.N as the engineers OF