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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1900-02-23, Page 2THE WINGIIAM TIMESOTARITART 731. WHAT CAUSED THE WAR. An Auterlesus titloader Toils of Their Op. presslost by tile Boor Oligarey. M. Jelin Hays Hammett I writes the following statement of thm treatment of the tritlanders by the Boers whicit brought cal the ires let war. Me. Ham- mond, who is au American, is the eon- sultineOthigineer fez. the two largest gold inining companies in the Tranevaal, and his iuterosts are thus quite as much associated with the rivals of Mr, Rhodes hints:Se. Me. Ttioninonire statement aepeare in the New York. Outlook Iii it.83, on behalf of the South Afri- eau Republic, President Kruger pub- lished iu the London wess a cordial in- Vitation and welcome and the promise 'of equal rights and protection to all who 'would go to the Transvaal (the South •African Republic) and invest their capi- tal, or contribute in any way to the de- velopment of the cemitry. An influx of fcreegn popnlation resulted, and this was iargely increase 1 by the finding of new gold -fields, the Witwatersrancit, dicoverod by tho Ui Ganders. One re- sult of the development of mineral re- sources and of interests subsidiary to mining was that the State's revenue in- creased from less than s, million dollars in 1881 to upwards of twenty millions in 189n After the discovery of the Witwater- araudt the Boer Govenunent begai ad- versely to change the fanehise and other laws affecting the immigrant pop- ulation of Meanders as they were call- ed, until (up to last July, when. the Volksraad, the Transvaal Parliament, leaved the term) a, residence of fourteen years was requisite for the foreigner to obtain the right to vote. The applicant must present a written petition froin a. majority of Boors in his district • and must have it approved by the Executive Cooneil. Furthermore, during his time of probation he was liable to military service, just as if he were already a full- fleged citizen of the Republic. In 1894 the Boer Government so far as to com- -mandeer-that is, forcibly to conscript -British subjects to light against the native tribes. They were compelled to abandon their work and to buy their own arms. Not until after the war was over did, the English Government show enough spirit to force the Boer Govern- ment to disclaim any intention of such procedure in the future. Maladministration and corruption were now rampart in all government de- partments of the Tfansval. We address- ed petitions for the removid of grievan- ces, but President Snigerelesilled: "You may protest as neritali iii you please, but I have tlee-gae. That settles it." This witeSelinfortu.uately, the fact; the Uit- -eianders were ne:p allowed to impart arms. All constitutional efforts having fail- ed, iu 18C5 a, Reform Committee was formed, of which I was a member. We 1 organized to obtai.1 an honest republi- can, and not a Bri ish Government; we pledged ourselves distinctlyagainst a change of flag. We started secretly to import rifles and cannon with a view of being prepared to enforce our demands by arms if necessary. An annngeraent was made With Dr. Ja,m.eson, then Administrator of the South African Chartered Company, to come to the Transvaal border to assist us, if so called. upen. Because of Mr. Rhode's connectioi with the Chartered Company it has lien supposed that ho Was at the back of our organization, but although Mr. Rhodes, in common with other capitalists, contributed to our funds, we did no organize to further the personal, conimercial, or political aims of Mr. Rhodes or any one else; in- deed, many of oras members were op- - 7 1 pcs )1 to lAr. 'tholes' intowsts. Our 1 sole aizn was to insure some elementau 1 civilisation at Jbliannesburg. The aim. I had the approval of many progressive Boers, we thus had already begun to. conquer racial houtility. We used every effort to prevent D. Jameson front taking the initative, but he disregardour protests, and is sole- ly responsible f,nthe failure of our movement. We first learned through a newspaper of his Copal:taro for Johan- nesburg. Itis action alienated sympathy froui the cause of reform, as it was sup- posed that he .laid ulterior motives which did not conform to express wishes. of our Conunittele. The Boersexpected that be would t to stize the country for the Oavt erel Company anal alit - mately for Grea .13ritain. This would have directly vie ated the fledges which we gave to the p plo of Johannesburg. We declared the - the movement was onlv to rid the 'omit -1y Of a corrupt oligarcy. We re uditited any adversiou of Boer sovereiel ,,ty. At the time it would have been, impossible to have hoisted. the Brititi or any other flag upon the inhabitants of the Transvaal. The Anglo-Saxon anembers of the com- munity thomsele-4 would have forcibly resisted any snail litterupt. Aneagreement *as filially reached be- tween the Reforne Committee and the Boer Government accept the arbitra- tion of Sir Hercules Robinson, British High Coramissicater for South, Africa. Before his arrivalShowever, Dr. Ja.me- i SOu'S small force lad been overpowered ' by the Boers, To the charges that we betrayed Dr. Jinneson, he and his . officers have beenteompelled to confess that they had received messages from us protesting against his movement. The raiders wee imprisoned. Sir Hercules Robiusoi requested the Johan- nesburgers to diserni, which they did, "in order to save he lives of Jameson and his men." At the same time the British Government guaranteed the Re- form Conimittee *at not a•hair of the heads of any o its leaders should bo touched. Despite this, the arrest of the Reform Committee' took place, in the face of the proraiies to the contrary from the Boer Govarnment. • This ar- rest also - demonstrated that, at times, the British Government is not above re- pudiating its obligations. After a few months' imprisonment our trial follow- ed, the jury beigg composed excluelyeey- of Boers. Undee,nneasreaffient between theateciaiT7s, it Was agreed that only a 'nominal fine should be imposed on us if we pleaded guilty, when, to . our con- sternation, the Boer attorneys reputiat- ed their agreement, and the death sent- ence was passed on four of the- leaders of Whom I was one. . The other mem- bers of the Committeewere imprisoned. As the civilizworld protested _against tho carrying ' of the sentence, the Government finally commuted it to the imprisonment. r, • grievances be re lressed. Despite (hist nothing was done. The interests of the clique controlling the Government re - vented the realization Of tho 'tom of Morin based on the report of the Boer COMmisSi011. Things now wed m • bad to worse. Tiene and .tgain the ITU - leaders appealed be the Boer Omni - moat, but without avail. Finally last .spring a petition signed by 21,000 British subjects was forwarded to. the British Government. The result was the conference. between President Zinger and Sir Alfred Milner, in which the latter took the ground that all ques- tious could be eetded by a concession ou the part of the, South African Republic of tho right of filauchiso M tho or population. The impression pre- vails that the co' formica foiled ou ao- count of tho (litre mice .of the number of years' eeehlenee .,necessary to gain a traucluse. This. was. a mistake. The most imported point was the basis of representation. t./ncler the scheme suggested by Mr. 1Fruger a majority of the voters. would *ye been entitled to less than a fifth ofiVolhertiad representa- tion. A few mouths •jbftierwart an ultima- tum from tho Boe Government Ws the immediate cause the present war. In I this 'Ufara greater issue is involved than the redressed grievances of the Meand- ers. Fox, niauy years the Boors have boon animated by a steadfast but secret ambition -namely, to establish Boer supremacy throughout South Africa. There has been a quiet arming for the purpose and.foinign soldiere have been secretly emplo;hd to. teachthe Boers the use of artillery. The Boer Govern- ment has purchased sufficient ammuni- tion to arm evqy Dutchmen in South Africa. Thetexcuse that the Jameson raid made it ne4essary does not hold, as the .army plans or fortifications' at Pre- toria and Johannesburg anteidated the raid for several years.. Fortunately for us, the abstraction from the community of about sixty men, composing the Reform Committee, was having a dieastrons effect on the business, in consequence a general movement was nil throughout South Africa for our liberation. The Boer Government did hot think it wise to re, sist the unanimity of this movement, and finally, after nearly six mouths' im- prisomnent released us en consideration of a payment of.. $1,500,000 the four of us condemned tel.., death being compelled to pay $125,000 apiece. There was no question of calemency involved. The Boer Government then appointed a Commission. toqnvestigate the matter of our grievances. After a long and. careful examination, the Commission unequivically aqmowledged that these Two-thirds of, the Transvaal popula- tion were Uitlanders. • We went thither by express fuvitation; our capital and enterprise what in Boer hands was a worthless territory, develops(' into the greatest minin3 Litre in the world; the count/7, now riob, was bankrupt before our arrival; we oivn more than half the land, 'having purchased it from the Boers; we paid iniee-tenths of the taxes, much qf which las admitted by the -BalerCommissionho be class taxation, as we . had no +ice in the Govern- ment. We subjected tO the subversion of the High Court of JuStice in which rested our only hope of legal redress. . In direct contravention of the Gronclwet (the Boer constitution), the Volksraad empowered the President and Executive Councfl to dismiis any judge without trial *he disputfer1 the validity. of any law passed by the Volksraad, even when such law conflicted with the Grondwet. President Krugef exercised this privilege in summerily removing Chief Justice Kotz, who had for many years honestly and ably filled that office. Afterwards all the judges wore simply the Presi- dent's tools. ti We objected. t the jury system; we were debarred* from proper trial, as the lawt makes only bur- ghers eligible foljury duty. Court re- cords thus prove that a very small per- centage of the Boers are found guilty-, and a very large percentage of the UiS• lenders are convicted. Nor was any Boer jury ever known to convict a Boer who had murdered a native. We objected to the Aliens Expulsion. Act, by whichian Uitlander can bo put . over the bad+. at the will of the Presi- dent, withopeKhe right of appeal to a court of justicle-a court open to the eumaties burger, fie law was .obviously opposed t to the British -Boor convention of 18t11. We objected to null, rohibition of free speeelt. to the power vested in the Presi- dent of snprossion any publication int his individual opluionovas opposed to; good • manners or subverseent of order.. Ile did not hesitate to,exercisehie despotic power towards newspaperswhich sup. ported British interest% wliiienews- ; papers which supported the Boer tamtv- emu:tent wore allowed to publish libelous articles and oven to advocate. atrocious crimes without interference: Wo objected to the dishonesty and in- efficient of the Johanneabeng. police force, For the shooting, of a British subject a polieeintin was recently rim, leased on $1,000 bail: -.less than the mond demanded. from Meanders in taival OltS3S, s We objected to the, Pablie. Meetings Act, which left discretionary power ier thediands of the pOheerannt to suppress: assemblages. .. z.1 • We objected to ge,Inhanuesburg high death -rate, owingto. tite• insanitation which the community was powerlesa to prevent under Boew inalaidniinistra- tiou. • f 1. hat is ••••••.NC • .'"" "'"I' • ' • • "••• .'„•'?",:45.1 .12 We objeoted toilealng tamed to main- tain schools in *41.1.1Dettele was exolue sively taught. &Owe:Minn introduced Volksraad t4a.tinceZte1isle slioubil be a1lbd, to benlaiiginr. even ia private schools ev.4ts de2itted1 by only one voto. • We b' t dt. the Boors being ex - elusively allowed to:carry firearms. We objected ttoi luhe. nen-protection of native lobo/era the Bears lying in wait to rob the natives: of their earnings when the latter woes on tiefr way from the mines to their home We objected to the maladministration of the liquor law, The mainreason for the shortage, of labour was that the na- tives were not in a fit 'state to work, a quarter of then). being constantly inca- pacitated through drunkenness. Many of the accidents occuring in the mines were due to the same,cause., Finally, we objected to the prevalent official corruption and. of the granting of concessions giving monopolies for the sale of supplies indespeusible to the Uit- lenders. With the cOncessionanes Gov- ernment officials were generally associat- ed in the great profit derived. In a recent raileta,y coucenion it was proved in court that toren y -one out of the twenty-five members of the Volksraad had received bribes. • If these facts axe rrect, is the South African Republic a republic more than in name? I assert fronz personal know- ledge that ,the facts are indisputable. . • You seem all olkiked up and stuffed up with the cold -find it hard to breathe. Cough that rasps and tears you -but little phlegm got up. a Now's thetime toeake Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup beforethings get too' serious. There is no remedy equal to it for making the breathing eaai, loosening the phlegm and rernovi4g all Vie alarming symptoms of a severe' cold. E, "I caught a severe, cold which settled on my chest, making lit feel raw and tight. Seeing Dr. Wood' i Norway Pine Syrup advertised I procured a bottle, which greatly relieved me. It•loosifned the phlegm, healed the lungs, and soon egad me perfectly well." NEIL Pil.0KAlt, RipLE , 0:12. DM Wood's ici'way Roe Syrup. 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TRAIL this period, ia the March Delineator. do mach to induee &redness of nine In the same number, as if to add meaning lit11 Known Lady of Thornhill, to Miss Pratt's thoughts, there is a well - illustrated article, of great interest to Gat Almost Instant Relief From women, dealing with the leaders of 'Women's Colleges, and some of the co- Heart Trouble by the Use educational institutions. ' of Milburn's Heart ' A timely article in the March Delin- and Nerve Pills. eator is devoted to the details of grow- ing Seeds, Plants and Bulbs. The timeliness is outweighed, hewover, by the fact that the article is designed to open up to women a uew lino of health- ful. money:making. The Delineator is devoted. solely to the interests of eifomen, alidein many of its main featurel is an invaluable guide to the thrifty wemen who have to make their own clothes, as well as to the wo- men who purnimse clothing, yet desire advice and suggestions in doing so. (15 cents; all newedealers.) 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