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WAR IN SOUTH

THE LAILY EXAMINER, CHARLOTTETOWN, MARUn 15 1900

AFRICA.

Interesting Particulars of the Struggle Between Great Britain and the Boers.

SIK A. MILNER AND THE AFRI- KANDER BOND.

We give below the text of the main

sort f the speec h, pul lished inthe 1 ondon Times, delivered by Sir Alfred Milne Graaff-Reinet, (Cape Colony,

on March 5, 1898, and long before war was widely thought about. It was made n ré S| nse to an ai dress by the

’ , oo loval branch of the Afrikander Bond, of whi idress the following was the hr issage ; . : ‘ c

“Tt is with deep sorrow that we have he ily during the last years our » Her Majesty the Queen opel ubted by certain parties, and that w iwe been held up to our A et Stel - Thawslnre ciivuw ; iCLLS wd UisiVy al A ne « ic we may not remain silent. On be-

half of the Afrikander inabitants of

this ntry we wish, with the greatest indignation and contempt, to repudiate

the insulting and mendacious accusa-

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to brought agaist us by mischief- ; ' ; + :

makers. We wisn at the ime time to

equest Your Excellency respectfully, but very urgently, to clear us with Her

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cannot be justified, is based altogether on ignorance and misur derstanding. The grand object at whic! we aim ts to raise that portion of the citizens of

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- » , ehich 4% 1 wy > tne coiony to which we Deiong in

social, politicai, and mora] sphere, and to make better and more worthy sub- jects of them of Her Majesty, and to secure to our kinsmen in South Africa

' those rights which were kindly pro-

mised by Her Majesty, ot cr res] ected

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(Queen, in the past.

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Sir Alfred Miiner, in the course of his reply said :—Of course I am glad tobe assured that any portion of Her Majesty's subjects are loyal, but I

’ nla he nitich : re o} » ye ] Ww | snouid De NIUCN MO@e PFidu t DE ailOW- | 5 a. . 5 + } } ° ed to iake that for granted. Why: : ; % ' . “ 5 , % ’ should I not ? [ ison ¢ i there ‘ ' p } Sau D \ : nea bheereun € i ; i3 ’ . 1 \ ven . . . ' a ey alg an lan vern— | WONUCTIUILS well uncer ee tr) } rr : : ‘ ‘ Ee Te ment. This country.despite its great ex-

tentandits fineclimate, hass .ometremen-

dous natural disadvantages to contend

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against ; and, yet, let any one compare | ts position to-day with what it was at the commencement of Her Majesty’s reign, or even thirty

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is enormous, and the prospects of| future progress are greater still; and | you have other blessings which by no) cnene gl wealth. You live under an absoiutely free system of government, protecting the rights and encouraging the spirit of ndependence of every citizen. You have couris of law mannec by men of the highest ability and integn ] secure in the discharge of t

functions from all danger of external interference. You have, at le gards the white races, perfect equality of citizenship, and these th not been won from a relu ereign. They have been free gladly bestowed upon you because

freedom and self-gover! nt, justice and equality, are the first p-incipies of British policy (loud and prolonged

cheering ), and they are seciirec to you by the strength of the power that gave them, and whose navy protects your shores from attack, without your being asked to contribute one pound to that protection unless you yours<lves desire it. Weill, gentlemen, of course ycu are loyal. It would be monstrous if vou were not. (Cheers.) And, now, if I have one wish, it is that I may never again have to deal at length With this topi But in order that I may put it aside with a sood con- science, I wish, having bee: more or less compelled to deal w th it, to co so Honestly, and not te shut mny eyes to

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unpleasant facts. (Cheer.) The great bulk of the population of tie colony, Dutch as well as Engiish, are, I firmly Délieve, thoroughly loyal in the sense that they know they live under a good mmstit on and have n wish to Change it, and regard with feeiin s of}

reverence and pride that august Lady

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at the head of it. If we had only . . > . - ] me uestions to con e if po!

iCal controversy were coniiued in tnis

HONy, the internal affiairs of the

ONtry, there would no doubt be a

seat deal of hard language sed OY s ‘ > ° Oilicting parties, and very | kely 4

“mong the usual amenities of party , Warfare somebody would cal] some-. ody else disloyal, but the thing would %€ $0 absurd, so obviously al)surd, that nobody would take it seriously, and the charge would be forgotien almost

s90n as uttered. What gives the Sling to the charge of disloyalty in

‘of the country to which they them-

lransaaal isto prevent an open rup- | ture between that country and the British Government. (Uheers.) They

‘loathe, very naturally and rightly, the 'idea of war, and they think that if

(rests on the assumption that Great | “ a ‘ | independence of the Transvaal thai in-

} | and that it is seeking causes of quarrel ago. The progress in matcrial wealth |

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this case, what makes it stick, and what makes people wince under it is the fact that the political controversies of this country at present, unfortunate- ly, turn largely upon another question I mean the relations of Her Majesty’s government to the South § African Republic, and that whenever there was any prospect of any difference between them a number of peoble in the colony at once vehemently, and without even the semblance of impartiality, espouse

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the side of the Republic. (Hear, hear.

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Personally, I do not think that they are disloyal. I am familiar at home with the figure of the politicia ften

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arise with another country, starts with the assumption that his own country must be in the wrong. He is not dis-

loyal, but really he cannot be very much surprise

those of his fellow citizens whose in

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clination is to start with exactly the |

Opposite assumption, and so I do not take it that in this case people are ne- cessarily disloyal because they carry their sympathy with the government of the Transvaal, which, seeing the close tie of relationship which unites a great portion of the population here with the dominant section of that

which gave some ground for the asser- tion that they seem to care much more for the independence of the Transvasl than for the honor and tke interests

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they can only impress upon the British Government that in case of war with

the Transvaal it would have a great

: ; ’ *Y > ; . » i its OWN SUDjects, at ie€ast in

number « sympathy, against it, that is a way to prevent such a calamity. Butin this they aretotally wrong, for this policy |

Britain has some occult design on the } Sr, ae ee dependence which it has itself given—

in order to take that independence away. But the assumption is the ex act opposite of the truth. (Cheers.) So far from seeking causes of quarrel it is the constant desire of the British Government to avoid causes of quarrel, and not to take up lightly the com- jlaints—and they are numerous— which reach it from British subjects within the Transvaal, for the very rea- son that it wishes to avoid even the sem- blance of interference in the interna! affairs of that country, and as regards its external relations to insist only on that minimum of control which it has always distinctly reserved, and has _ re- served,I may add, solely in the interests of the future tranquility of South Africa. That is Great Britain’s moderate atti- tude, and she cannot be frightened out of it. (Prolonged cheers.) It is not any aggressiveness on the part of Her Majestys government which now keeps up the spirit of unrest in South Africa. Not at all. It is that unprogressive- ness, I will not say retrogressiveness, of the government of the Transvaal, and its deep suspicion of the intention of Great Britain, which makes it devote its attention to imaginary external dangers, when every impartial observer

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oan see perfectly well that the real dangers which threaten it are internal. Now I wish to be perfecly fair There- fore let me say that this suspicion, | though absolutely groundless, is not | after all that has hapened, altogether | unnatural. I accept the situation that at the present moment any advice that | 1 could tender, or that any of your British fellow-citizens could tender in that quarter, though it was the best ad vice inthe world, would be instantly rejected because it was British. But the same does not apply to the Dutch | citizens of this colony, and especially to those who have gone so far in tbe expression of their sympathy the rans | vaal as to expose themselves to these charger of disloyalty to their own flag. Their good will at least cannot be sus- pected across the border, and if their | desire—and I believe it is what they desire— is to preserve the South | African Republic and to promote good relations between it and the British colonies and government, then let | them use all their influence, which is bound to be great, not in confirming the Transvaal in unjustified suspicions, not in encouraging its government in obstinatate resistance to all reform, but in inducing it gradually to assimi-

late its institutions, and, what is even country, is perfectly natural, to a point |

more important than institutions, the temper and spirit of its administration, to those of the free communities of South Africa, such as this colony or the Orange Free State. That isthe direc- tion in which a peaceful way out of these inveterate troubles, which have now plagued this conntry for more than thirty years, is to be found. (Cheers. )

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