The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1922-10-07
Nv Chas. w, Arlington.

BY Chas. w. Arlington.
After spending some time following
the advent and progress Of other
European nations on the Dark Con-
in dealing with the native tribes
we now follow the British into South
and South Central Africa. If the
British seem some what OF puzzle
hard to interpret their real motives
in their policy dealing with the ma
tives in North and West Africa, very
little is found in their conduct to-
ward them in the parts now under
consideration that will prove illum-
mating to the student OF English
they were quite timid about embark
ing on the slave trade. but once they
had become a party to 1t they ex-
celled all other nations in the number
of these unfortunate victims they cap
turned and transported IN awful SUI
ted States, On the other hand when
they reversed themselves on the in
iquitious traffic they are found equal
iy valiant in measures to stamp 1t
out-both in men and money the
whole nation seemed to do real PEN
ance. While American slavery was at
the very acme of its influence-when
ever a slave could set his foot on
English soil he at once became
free man. Canada was fine terminus
far famed Underground Railroads
on this side OF the water. while the
whole Africen coasts we're constantly
patrolled for slave ships. The En-
glishman seems to say If you are 60
ing to be bad, be just as bad as it is
possible to be--"What ever your hands
find to do, do with all your might"
There Is nothing In their conduct to
indicate that when their attention was
first attracted toward South Africa
L. 49, II. n II
on that country whatever, but after
the discovery of the Cape of Coop
Hope by the Portuguese. and the later
advent of the Dutch there the British
began casting longing eyes toward
the c. De as a splendid supply sta
ton for their ships on their voyages
to and from India. But once they
landed there they discovered what
q feeble grasp the Dutch East India
Company had on the Cape, and 1t
was likely to slip at any time from
France was likely to succeed the
Dutch in such an event-this they were
determined should not be the case.
With this idea In mind the Govern.
ment with the full consent Of the
force to routh Africa with definite
instructions to take possession of
Cape Town in 1895, which was ac-
complished with but feeble resistance
on the part OF the local authorities.
1t was discovered that the rule of
the Dutch East India Company was
oppressive in large measure, and the
new rulers addressed themselves to
the task of instituting reforms that
would make life more agreeable to
both the natives and the Dutch set
tiers. They also established free trade
and broke the grinding monopoly the
Dutch Company had imposed on the
territory which had caused the COM
pany to constantly grow in disfavor
even with the Dutch. The chief OBJ
lection the Dutch had to British rule
after these reforms had been intro
duced. was that it wounded their RAJ
cial pride to live under the flag of
another nation, but every evidence
points to the winning them by kind
ness despite that; but the Peace Of
Amiens in 1903, the British restored
the Capeso OF Good Hope to the Dutch
Republic. The Dutch Government rio-
fitting by the great disfavor that the