THE DAILY EXAMINER, CHARLOTTETOWN, MARCH 10 1900

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bridge built over one of their rivers, and there was scarcely a road in the coun- try. The consequence was a separa

on between them and their fellow Dutchmen in the neighboring colonies and the Orange Free State, and an ap-

roximation of their aracter and habits to the character and habits of the Kafhr This isa feature of the situation which up to the time of the

present war was keenly felt by the other South African Dutch.

his isolated people |ived for five and twenty years carrying on their

hand to hand duel with the natives, and were only just beginning to turn their thoughts under the enlightened rule of President Burgers to some oi

the initial requirements of civilized gov- ernment when they found themselves n danger of being wiped out of South Africa. The native tribes all around them were in arms. Their own levies were melting from the ficld. They had neither men to fight as volunteers nor money to pay for a military force raised on modern lines. Their own people refused to pay taxes. They were deep- ly in debt. In ‘this extremity they turned to Great Britain and asked to be taken under her protection. The condition of protection w 1s annexation, and a petition in favour of annexation was signed by nearly half the male copulation. The Executive Govern- ment and principal officials and prac-

tic ally all the refie: tiv part of the population were in favour Ol the change.

The annexation of the Transvaal to Great Britain was proclaimed and the hange was effected in a)solute peace. No force was usedor displayed. The

principal officials of the 1 ransvaal Gov- ernment, including Mr. Paul Kruger, took office under the British Govern meut. The new Government restored the finances of the country, fought the

Zulus, fought Sikukuni, and broke for nower of surrounding native

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Then, ¥ the advant ages oF annex at1ON | n reaped, wnen tne dan ef ptcy and annihilation

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hown the « learest desire to abstain |

Hk RANSVAAL, | from interference. Under somewhat sere moditted conditions, she has displayed

in her relations to the Dutch Republics , ee | the same Spirit of tolerence and re | | | SI ect for lot al wishes which has ren ; dered possible within within the Em . cn Times.) | pire the unique growth and develop- 3 bE . | ment of our great self-governing

f Transva history show [ lonies. If the ‘Transvaal had been of the Transvaal are | Willing, as our colonies have been wil

ot nfused with “the brave, | ling, to take freedom, of which itself trious, orderly, and relig should set the measure, and to give

, the cultivators, the de loyalty to its engagements in return, fend i the tax contributors of | there need have been no more friction ntry, whom Sir Benjamin | between us and the Dutch outside the : in d ibed in 1537 as forming | Empire than there has been between reat emigration from Cape | us and the British colonists within the

C ‘Tne lajority of these settled Empire.

Free State and Natal. The grant of independence to the

wn a general satisfaction | emigrant farmers in 1852 without any

ns with (Great Britain. | trial of strength and purely was an act

Free Staters should now es- | Of grace, dictated by a_ policy which

irrel of their countrymen | desired to assume no further responsi-

of British oppression, bilities in South Africa. The flagrant

ural instincts ot race re- | and habitual violation of the conditions

under which independence was granted

| Boers of the Transvaal were the | had been passed over without remopr-

y most adventurous. and must] Strance. It was not until the _ hostile residue of a militant party | attitude of the Zulus and other native

who fought against British authority, | tribes threatened the Transvaal with Natal and the in the Free | extinction and presented a serious dan- Stat They withdrew across the Vaal! ger to British South Africa that any : ed a grant of independence | thought of intervening in Transvaal

. Great |} in. and for 2c years | affairs was entertained. Intervention themselves almost exclusively | then was made in response to an invi-

. shting They fought with the | tation from the Transvaal, and that this a @ Thev fought with each | was so in fact as well asin name was . fought w natives. { demonstrated by the absolutely peace

nly people they dic not fight with ful 1 anner iit which annexation was

were the British. But they broke with | e'ected.

impunity all the conditions of their We spent upwards of £6,000,000 on charter of independence. In theig | the Zulu war, as weli as many British wars with the natives they were little | lives. Having done that, having re- stter than slave-raiders. They mixed | stored industrial and financial prosper- freely with native women, and they | ity to the country and found at the end lived their hard-fighting, semi-barbar-—| Of our exertions that a change in pub- ous existence, cut off from the rest of | lic opinion had taken place, and that South Africa without any of the out-|the Boers of the Transvaal desired ward appliances of civilization. For | that the independence of their country nearly twenty years there was not a should be restored, we gave it back

subject only to certain condition.» which were judged to be essential in order to prevent the recurrence of a similar crisis at any future date.

The forces engaged on the British side at Majuba numbered less than 500 men. We had 12,000 men upon the sea. There can be no reasonable con- tention that that concession was in any way forced from us by the issue of so unimportant a skirmish in arms, We gave the Transvaal back her autonomy after Majuba because the development of events had convinced the British statesmen responsible for the conduct of affairs that the revolt which had cul- minated at Majuba was’not the mere insubordir ation of a faction but express- ed the sentiment of Dutch South Africa. Nothing could more clearly demon- strate our desire to act in accordance with that sentiment. Lord Kimberley’s explanation, given the other day, adds nothing to and takes nothing from this view

In view of all that the annexation of the Transvaal cost, us we had a right to safeguard the future peace of South Africa and the future position of Great Britain by imposing centain conditions upon the retrocession. It is difficult to imagine conditions less onerous than those which were embodied in the terms of peace of the Convention of 1881. But the Transvaal had no sooner been given back than these con- ditions were oroken.

Great Britain was the party aggrieved. Nevertheless, Great Britain agreed to revise the conditions of 1881, bringing them more into accordance with Dutch wishes. Accordingly a fresh conven- tion embodying important concescions was negotiated in 1884. Within a year a breach of the new conditions necessitated the despatch of «he Warren expedition at a cost ot nearly #,2,000,- 000 to this country. ‘The very liber- ality of our terms of internal independ- ence to the Transvaal made it essential that the territorial limits within which that independence should be exercised should be clearly defined. The Con- vention of 1884 defined the boundaries of the Transvaal. The Transvaal Gov- ernment bound itself faithfully to ob- serve the frentier limits then ‘aid down. There is not one of its frontiers on which it has not attempted to extend its limits, In two cases it has made the attempt with conspicuous success. There is scarcely a provision of the Convention which the Transvaal Gov- ernment has not either broken or at- tempted to break. It has openly defied the provisions intended to secure the ality of white men within its bord-

equ : me ** ers. It has subjected British subjects

to humiliating disabilities. It endeav- oured in 1895 to Close its frontiers to sritish trade. It has steadily pursued an anti-British policy.

declared the intention

the interests and cultivating the friend-

lon and a deciaration of independence

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ship of foreign nations ina spirit of opposition to Great Britain It has spent enormous sums in preparing it- self tor an armed conflict with Great Britain. It has finally thrown off the mask and, having drawn the Orange Free State, which had not even the shadew of a quarrel with Great Britain, into an alliance, it has declared the design. of inducing British South Atrica to throw off its allegiance to the Queen:

The one occasion during 50 years of mutual history in which the part of the ‘Transvaal has not been that of aggres- sor or suppliant fer favorsis the un- fortunate incident of the Jameson raid. No justification can be offered for what actually occurred on that occasion. In the circumstances Dr. Jameson had no right to cross the frontier. But it has to be remembered that this action, however unjustifiable, was a conse- quence and not a cause. The internal revolt in which his co-operation had been sought had been induced by con- ditions for which the Transvaal Gov- ernment alone was responsible. It was the willingness, not the readiness, of the British Government to intervene which threw the foreign population of the Transvaal on its own resources: and, though it has been scught to attribute to the mistrust and irritation caused by the Jameson raid the policy which has culminated in the armament

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la fishing rod and tied to a telegraph pole in front of the Volksraad building. I hear that this caused a fearful row, and the President offered a reward of #20 to anyone finding out the pes- petretar.

“It makes my heart sore to.see all the big crops of wheat and forage rot- ting on the lands for want of reaping. All the Dutch farmers will be ruined this year; some families are already starving.”

A DUTCH COLONIST’S LETTER | that hé had a nephew and two other

relations killed at Magersfontein. “Our men are tired of the war, as they are half starved, in addition to ceeded in making his escape from | being thoroughly disheartened through Bloemfontein : the loss of hundreds of relatives and “Ever since the battle of Magers-{ friends. By the time the war is over fontein, in which the Dutch here admit | every person living in the Free State having lost 473 killed, and about 700 | and the Transvaal will be seen in crape or 800 wounded, I had been feeling | and Iam afraid that black will be the very uncomfortable, so made up my] colour of our flag in the future, if we mind to clear before we were all made { are allowed to have one. eit “Talking about flags, I had a bit of “President Steyn looks about 30] fun on Christmas eve, the night I bolt- i , or years older than he did before the} ed. I got old ‘Sannah’ to halp me to Sas esanda tot totes teat tends commencement of the war; I am told ‘ makea Union Jack, which I fixed onto < illa.

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