The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-25

Africa has been watched by the
world since the days of Dom Paul
and De Wet. 1t would now feel
more interested in the reasons for
the trouble than in the details of
the military operations"
Detailing the general belief in
Great Britain that the revolt was
financed by Russian gold used 20
spread propaganda, the Bangor
Commercial insists that it was due
to fail because it did not have the
support of the Boer population and
because South Africa, if united,
could not long defy the might Jf
Great Britain, but it would have
been much more serious than it was
had the rebels secured the assis-
lance of the black population that
evidently was counted on" The
Toledo Blade, however, does not
consider the trouble in any way an
imperial problem. 1t suggests that,
after all it is entirely economic. las
soon as the miners and their EN-
ployers find a common ground of
understanding" it continues, the
race war will blow up and the i'm
perial problem, that is not an i'm
perial problem, will evaporate in
thin air"
Praising the action of General
SHUTS in encouraging the loyalty
and cooperation of the Kaffirs the
Saginaw News Courier reviews the
energetic measures used in gaining
control of the situation and adds,
Had the native Kaffirs risen, how
ever, the story might be different
and it is a certainty they would
have regarded the whites who in
itiated the revolt with as little con-
Germ as any other whites they en-
countered.' The Pittsburgh Chron-
icle Telegram declares that 1.-The
menace of Bolshevism wherever it
rears its ugly head yields to only
one argument and that is one in
the application of which General
SHUTS is a master"
The Baltimore American points
out that since 1910 there has been
an active syndicalist movement
among the miners which culmin-
ated prior to the war in an abortive
revolution. But the paper is by
no means convinced that this was a
similar proposition. AT present. -
Shuts firmness has succeeded in
breaking the back of the revolu-
tionary movement-if it really was
that and not merely a great strike -
The Cleveland Plaindealer also
would like more light on whether
this is strike or an attempted rev.
olution. 1t points out, however,
that the fact that the liberal ten
denotes of SHUTS are universally
recognized lends strength to the
contention that the insurrectionists
are seeking the complete overthrow
OF the established order rather than
a mere correction of working con-
ditions'
The Norfolk Virginian Pilot re-
views at length the troubles that
Great Britain is having with all of
her "nOn-Saxon step-children" and
continues: "the situation that has
developed puts the British empire
to its severest test. 1t has proved
that it possesses the genius of i'm
perial expansion by extending its
frontiers practically to the ends OF
the earth. But has it the genius of
empire that will enable it to hold
what it has won?" But in the opin-
Ion of the Adrian, Mich, Telegram,
the latest flare up of Bolshevism, 50
Gould end only in one way, but it
Is gratifying to see it ended so soon
1t would be a sorry thing to see
Anglo-Saxon ideas beaten by Boil
sheY1Sm anywhere in the world Z"