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AT BRITAIN DEFENDED,

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4 CLERGYMAN ON THE CAUSES OF THE

WAR.

Rev. Hugh Price Hughes, ex-Presi-

dent of the Wesleyan Conference of England, and editor of The Methodist Times, the leading organ of the Wes-~ leyans in Great Britain, has published lowing article in his Journal asa direct reply to arguments advanced by Mr. W. T. Stead

) behalf of the Boers :—

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We have stated more than once that

believe the Transvaal military garchy, falsely called a “republic,” and its Dutch allies in every part of South Africa havelong been engaged in a “conspiracy” to destroy the Brit sh Empire south of the Zambesi. Mr. in his weekly publication in fa vor of the Boers, and in a personal let- ter to our editor, has asked us to give reasons for our belief ina long-existing ‘“‘coonspiracy.” We have no expecta - tion of influencing Mr. Stead’s opinicns | in his present state of mind, for on this question, as on the question of the} Papacy, he has reached a state of mind that is not affected either by facts or arguments. Nevertheless, as he and others insist upon it, we reluctantly reasons for

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KRUGER AN IMPLACABLE FOE

In the first place President Kruger, from the first time we heard of him, has always declared in plain speech and yet plainer conduct that he hates us in the same irrational and irrecon- cilable way that his eager advocate, Mr. Michael Davitt, hates us. He has always been the ringleader of the extreme party, which has done its ut- most to insult Englishmen and to em- bitter the Dutch against us. Even when Mr. Gladstone, with unparalelled magnanimity, made the retrocession of the Transvaal, instead of gratefully ap- preciating the act, President Kruger

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'on going back to

put the worst construction on Mr. Gladstone’s motives, and began at once to try by every means in his pow- er to neutralize and ignore the con- ditions on which the retrocession was made.

So far did President Kruger proceed

course that within twelve months of the retrocession Mr. Gladstone himself had to threaten President Kruger with war for his deliberate attempt to break the convention.

As soon as possible President Kruger agitated for a new convention with adroitly manipulated verbal changes which he has incessantly in- terpreted to mean that the supremacy of the British Empire no longer exists. Can Mr. Stead mention one single oc- casion on which President Kruger has acted ‘in a friendly way, or has not tried to make our mutual relations as disagreeable as possible ? The surrender of the prisoners after the raid was not due to any friendly disposition, and we cannot recall any other public action of his which has even the superficial appearance of friendliness.

A cruelly unjust use has been made of the raid to misrepresent the conduct of England. We and the immense majority of the serious people of this country, totally condemned the raid, but we are not so unrighteous as to forget that the raid itself was not a cause, but a result of yeats of eppres- sion andinsult. Wesaid then that the wrongs of the British Outlanders were so great that they would have been fully justified in throwing off the intoler- able yoke of the Boers, if they had power to do so, but that it was totally wrong for Dr. Jameson to interfere from the outside. Unless we are mis- taken, Mr. Stead then said the same thing. Ifnot, he ought to be ashamed of himself. Has it come to this, that Englishmen, the representatives of an Imperial Race, with noble memories of freedom and justice, ought to sub-

mit to political injustice, commercial dishonesty and personal insult from Boers?

THE ABSOLUTE JUSTICE OF; % OUR CASE. ,

What an incredible infatuation has taken possession of some of our fellow- countrymen ! What have we demanded from President Kruger ? Simply this, that he should treat us as the Orange Free State has treated us and we in- variably treat the Dutch in Natal and

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the Cape. If President Kruger had been willing to treat us we invariably treat the Dutch in South Africa there would not have been, there could not have been, a war. We indignani] deny that the raid justified Presicent Kruger in treating us as a nation of liars and rascals who desired to destroy his political and human rights. The nation repudiated Jameson, and offered to guarantee the Transvaal against in- vasion. We have submitted with measureless patience to what no other great power would tolerate for a single month.

And here let us deal with a criticism of which The Starand The Morning Leader have made somuch. We quot- ed General Joubert’s confession that the Boers have done their utmost to deceive us with respect to their gigantic military preparations. Our contem- poraries point out that General Joubert was referring only to what the Boers have done since the raid, Certainly the words we quoted did refer only to what has happened since the raid. But what Of that? The raid was not the first event in South African history. It was itself provoked by the unbearable of the Boer oligarchy,

IN THE EYES

EUROPE. In ecclesiastical history we insist up- the first century. And if we be just and honest, we must begin not at the date of the raid, but many years before the raid. The raid altered nothing, excepi that it gave President Kruger an opportunity to throw dust in the eyes of Europe, and to prepare faster than ever for the day

DUST OF

| when the military attack on our empire

should begin. He had spenta million and a quarter on the military conspir- acy before Dr. Jameson committed his unpardonable offence, The only practi- calefiect of the raid was to give Presi- dent Kruger an opportunity of doing, more or less openly and ona gigantic scale, what he kad been doing, more or less secretly and onasmall scale before Jameson was heard of.

Do you say, ‘Who told you that ?” We answer: Christian missionaries and laymenin Sonth Africa who love war nomore than Mr. Stead and his allies, but who know much more about South Africa than those who are now voludle and vociferous in de- nouncing their own country. Even Prof. Bryce, the most important of Mr. Stead’s allies, only made a hasty pleas- ure trip through South Africa. The witnesses on whom werely are not millionaires or tourists or political par- tisans, but God-fearing missionaries and laymen of our own church who have lived for years in South Africa. Let us say here that the constant jeer- ing referencesto “millionaires” are very foolish, first ofall because the millionaires on the English side en- tered into the agitation most reluctant- ly at the last moment ; and, secondly, because the French and German millionaires are on the side of Presi- dent Kruger, having made fabulous fortunes through his political corrup- tions.

THE EVILS OF BOER RULE.

Has Mr. Stead, the accuser of his British brethern, never heard of the

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| dynamite monopoly, and of the Rail, | way Company, and of all the politica | jobbery in favor of the anti-English | representatives of “international _ fin- And as he never heard that

indeper- ; dence of the courts of justice destroyed, in order that President Kruger, with his Dutch, French German fellow mil- lionaires, may trample on the despised and helpless English? We have sub-

ity to the ceaseless clamor of men who anogate to themselves a monopoly of virtue. But even a poor, patriotic worm will turn at least, and we must say that we are staggered that men call- ing themselves Liberals should champ- ion a cruel and corrupt military oligarchy, which has _ systematically violated every principle of freedom, justice and honesty which the Liberal parties exhist to promote.

To suppose that the gigantic arma- ments now disclosed have been im- ported since the raid is to reveal an amount of credulity which is capable of believing anything. For many years Dr. Leyds has been employed to disseminate groundless falsehoods throughout Europe, poisoning the minds of the peoples against us. No effort has been spared that could sow the bit- ter seed of that hateful thing—race an- tipathy—throughout every part of South Africa. It is demonstrat2d that this deadly work was being stead- ily promoted all the time we, in our generous kindliness, were dreaming of better things. The sudden interfer- ference of the Orange Free State, to | which we have never done any wrong, | the ungrateful disloyalty of the Dutch in the Cape, the prompt annexation of British territory, the skilful co-opera- tion of German strategists and artillery- men, the complete readiness in every Getail, shows the results of many years of careful and costly preparaticn for an attack on the empire.

THE REAL AUTHORS OF WAR.

To say, under these circumstances, that there had been no long and deep- ly-laid conspiracy is to repudiate all the rules of logic and of common sense. If Mr. Joseph Chamberlain had never been born, if the British Empire had never been cursed with Mr. Jameson, the main issue would have been the same, and the present crisis would have come about in some other way. The Boer police of a mili- tary oligarchy, feunded upon slavery and repudiating the equality of all clvilized men, would inevitably have come into collusion with the British policy of protecting native races, of treating all Europeans alike. We say once more, if President Kruger had been willing to treat the natives with humanity, and to treat us as we treat the Dutch, not a drop of human blood would have been shed. He and his friends are responsible for this war. If he had been willing to accept the ele- mentry principles of Christian civiliza- tion all the jingoes in the world would have been unable to break the peace.

WHAT WE ARE FIGHTING FOR.

No unprejudiced and God-fearing Englishman should allow himself in this sad, dark hour to betortured for one moment by the thought that we are in the wrong. We are fighting for jus-—- tice, for human rights, for freedom, for the protection of the natives of South Africa and for the suppression of race hatred. None will gain more from our success than the Dutch themselves. They had been deceived by a handful of unworthy leaders. Under the Brit-

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