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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS THURSDAY, AUGUST 20TM 1903
GENERAL BOTHA'S LETTER. The following is the text of General Louis Botha's notorious letter. Mr. Leonard
Courtney, who forwards it to the Times anys: The enclosed letter from General Boths has been sent to a friond hore, who has read it to me: The General is willing to have it published, and I think it should be read widely, though it may not be generally liked, because it express views which we ought to know and as to which vory little information reaches us." The lotter runs thus :-
W M. POWELL, LD.,
Leaving the Legislative Council alone, I we do not think that the destinies of this sub- of grave importance. The work of the Repart wish to refer very briofly to some other questions continent ought to be entrusted to such people Unfortunately, howover reluctantly I say it riation Department, in a completo and dismant I have no doubt that the government of this failure. However, good the intentions of the country is almost completely dictated by the GENERAL DRAPERS. HIGH-CLASS DRESSMAKERS, AND Government with this branch of the adrainistra mining magastos. And that makes the situa- tion might have bson, still it cannot be donication all the more serious for the general popula that the Bepatriation. Beards have been struck tion of the country, English as well as Dutob. with a strange powerlessness, for which their composition fu the tooth of our advice and recommendations bas, boon largely responsible Lord Miluer's despatcher about the huge success.
You see in what a difficult position may
colleagues and myself are placed. If wo sit still while the country is geïng to the dogs, we fail in our most important duty to the State, If, on the other hand, we criticise the policy of of this department are nothing more than s the Government and those who stand behind
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not like to express an opinion on events before one in at some distance from thom and can
propaganda. However, it seems that the time' has come for us to speak out, and not by our silence to appear to acquiesce in the wrong course affairs are taking.
It will be with groat mulutance that we shall do so. God only knows what a chance this Government had of winning the respect and the confidence of the Boor population. A sin- guiar misconception of their character, however, bas led the Government luto a policy of firmness and assimilation, which has completely preclud- ed all possibility of the Bours rovising their notions of British policy. It is to thom still the same policy which drote their forefathers from the Cape and which has dramshod South Africa in blond and tears. If they were prepared tis base on open wind after the war, I am afraid they are less sofo-day. If the Government had started the administration of the conuicy on broad and statesmanlike lues and on the denieratic principle of Trusting the people, then nothing would have been too great for the silent forces of respect, ex-operation, and conciliation to have accomplished is time. Instead, however, the whole policy of the Government has been inspired by fear and distrust and cast along thoké aawow bureau. cratic lines which are equally abhorrent to all
than twolve months after the conclusion of¦ and are tronted with starting a revolutionary ths war, these boards are still travelling over the country and wasting the public funds in discern their affacts. And although I personally erter to apportion the "free grant of throw never had a doubt about the meaning of Mr.millions? No wonder that the burghers-have Chamberlain's visit to the country, still 1 did given up all hope of ever having anything given not like expressing my opinion while there was
them out of this "fres grant," Although this yet a chance of matters tarring out botter than
relief fund was in the Vereniging conditions I had anticipated.
of surrender called a "trop grant," I have not However, there is or can be no doubt any
yot, inet a single burgher in the Transvaal who longer that, at any ralo as far as the Transvaal
has received anything to be signed for or secured is concerned, Mr. Chamborsnio's visit to South Africa has been a dismal, failurs, and has left by suroties or promissory notes.
Then there is the school and language ques- matters worse than he found thom.
We did tion, which we brought to the attention of our best to gather at Pretoria at the time of his .. Chamberlain, and which has already in visit alf the most intusatial and representative very form ben brought to the attention of burghers of the Transvaal in order that he the Government. But in vain. The Gorern might have an opportunity of aequaiuting ment has imported si number of Engilsh educa- himoit at first hand with the visual experts, ander whose care and lustrue sentiments of the people. Wa saw bim tions the education of the Boer children is only once fa a joint body as & public
Dow directed to a goal which no Boèr pro- deputation. For the rest hesaurus of us fesses to farosco ar dorstand. An intensely and preferred to gather his information and religions, marxel, and conservative people, the advice from quarters about which the less wo
'Boors find their whole existence torn up by the say the bettor. At the public meeting ho adopted a live of reply which could not butts, as it wors, their children adrented bi considered insulting, and which was so con-
or Sacerdotalists, and probably are, who sidered by everybody prossul
His I do not know their language or modes our ingratitude and non-thought, who teach the children Dateb without great taunt was recognition of the fact that the Government kaowing it, who teach them history which was spouding 15. millions sterling on the every child known to be a travesty of the facts directed to making plain to the ordinary Boer the gulf which separates him from his con- querors. Do you think that such an educa tional system-administered, ton, with that red tape which before was almost unknown in this country-is a factor for conciliation in this capulty? Do you think the Boers will love and admiro their conquerors for openly trying to Anglicize their children and for patting their language on the same footing practically as Zula, Besuto, or any other forsiga language It sometimes esemé to me that the Governmout
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From Pretoria Mr. Chamberlain went to Johannesburg, and as he was there doaling with men who represented nobody but themselves. unless it be their financial principals in Europe, be seems to have had much easier work in persuading them to assent to his poor country
tempor. The English, even mero than thei Dutch, are bitterly complaining. The only redeeming feature of the situation is that in this common adversity English and Boer are being drawn together; bat it is net a work of which the Gloverument has any reason to be prond.
You must not infor from all this that the Boers
are seething with discontent. There is a wondar- ful calm everywhereobservable. Alltheirenergies are ougaged in the work of rebuilding their homes and repairing the losses of the war. Nothing
hepe for the future of the country than the whole-hearted way with which the prople basu thrown thouselves into this work. The summor.
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tion to the white population of the country, is Wo have asked for School Boards to direct local probably one of the largest in the world.education along general lines to be supervised Rumour bas it-I repeat it for what it is worth by the Education Department. This system, that you this rolactant assent was given which is only one form of that local self-govern
when dark threats wore made of a manchment Which alone suits free and progressive harvest was a failure because of the never larger debt being placed on the country peoples, worked perfectly well all over South drought, but even now as much ploughing hus been done for the winter ds probably in any pesvious year.
and the mineral nangis being withdraws
Africa bofore the war. No doubt it is derided by the imported educational experts who are caperi. menting with their abstract theories on the
from publie participation and earmarked specially for the payment of the war debt. It
Boor children... Free schools, ala inistered thus became a case of Hobson's choice, and there is no doubt now that these individuals by school committees nominated by the parents, with whom Mr. Chamberlain 'conducted these are now in operation in many parts of the interesting regotiations through Lord Milner country and are frequented by more than 4,000 unfortunately chose wrongly. However, the children. In these schools the fundamental main point to bear in mind is that an unprece principle is the equality of English and Dutch; donted war debt was placed on the Transvast and when you consider that the parenta bara in against the express declarations of the burgher these hard times to pay for the teaching of their representatives and without the consultation or | ebildren in these free schools, while next -cénçarrouce of a single section of the population door the Government school affords gratis of the country. And in the face of this Mr.education, you can understand with what rooted Chamberlain declared at his recent Birmingham suspicion they must omsider thèse Government mesting that "tho representatives of every class in the Transvaal took upon themselves" this burden of a war debt.
While Mr. Chamberlain was at Cape Town Lord Milner offered to Gezorals D-larey, Smuts, and myself seats on the new Legislative Council, As, Lowever, we could not act in our individual capacity, and as no opportunity could be given us of consulting the burgher popula- tion, and as, moreover, nothing whatever had been done to give effect to the solemn represent. ation which we lind made to Mr. Chamberlain at Pretoria, we fell bound to docline this honour We took, however, the liberty of pointing out to Lord Milner that itwas better to face the situation honestly and manfully, and thitit was undesirable to retain all power in the bands of the Goveru ment under the Crown Colony system and to share its responsibilty with anominen Legislativo Council; in other words, that the Government, having all the power, should also retain all the responsibility, and that there would be as objection to this so long as it continued to RUTALÆRATED WATERS | Seren-justly and fairly. The warning to
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Well, we have our Legislative Council now,
but as I aygolf doclined to sit on it, it is not for me to criticise it. The burgher population, however, laugh to store the vory idea that it is represented on that Chanel,
The warning which we conveget to Lord Milger-that that legislative Council would at the ball of high politics rolling--has come true. One of its very first tasks was the chang
schools.
You see very little writing in the papers on these subjects. The fact is that the Boers are | a silent people sud would rather suffer in silonce han make a parade of their grievances. The grievances that you mostly hear of in. the Transvaal are, strangely enough, thus cf the capitalists and mining magnetos. And the | particular grievance which is now most popular is the want of astive labour for the mines. Before the war one did not bear so much of this as of the kindred complaint that the native Inbour cost too much. No doubt one of the hopes which these people built on the successful issue of the war was that of choup
tice labour. Unfortunately this hope bas turned out a complete delusion. The natives are there right enough, but their suspicions have been thoroughly roused; most of them hace made much money out of the "military daring the war and pre-now quietly waiting for the fallment of the many other promises by which the military secured their co-operation in the lata wan
So now the cry is all for cheap Chinese labour. In other words, the vastly preponderant black population of South Africa most now te zeinforced by bordes of the yellow races fri ma
Asia in order that the mining venture of the Transvaal may pay dividends. These financial] gentlemen are not deterred by the prospect that such a step will degrade South Africa for sad prevent it from being a country for immigrants, and finally make it onto more a black raun's land. What feeling devo tøy: for South Afries or the coming generations of
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NOTICE.
ing at the status of the coloured people, which, its people? We are convinced of their utter orders from Ladies desiring any speciaf gods. I HAVE this day resumed ebirge of the
and naked selfishness; and, what is more, we are convinced of their stupidity and want of foresight in all matters of politici. Their general interference in the politics of South Africa from the days of the Jamesou raid up to the present constitutas one, unbroken record of Estupendous blundering and miscalculation, and
however, the good sense of Sir Richard Solomon negatived after it had been solemnly passed. The Government, having avoided one extreme, has now can amok on the other. As the municipal franchise was not to be given to the coloured people, no more was it to be given to the over |whelming population of white aliens in this coun- try, in other words, the coloured British subject and the white alien should be regarded as equal
FROM HOT TO COLD. in this British colony. The logic of this may be
Dysentery is prevalent everywhere in sound, but its policy, in view of the universal and is due to misamatio poisons and begins: opinions of South Africans, is more than abruptly with inflammation of the mucous questionable; while the situation becomes lining of the Irge howel. In America the utterly zidiealous when you remember that it disease is common, but proporly treated doen not result a seriously as in the tropics. Perry was Lord Milner's advocacy of the cause of the Davis' Painkiller is the best known remedy and white alien which was the direct cause of the | the most efficacious in the treatment of (2011) war.
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