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Show ENGLAND AND THE BOERS. " One of the striking incidents connected connect-ed with England's rapacity towards the Boers is the changed attitude of the German government towards President Pres-ident Kruger and the government of I the . Transvaal. The German government organ, the Cologne Gazette, voices this changed attitude by asserting that the Boers have proved themselves impossible as administrators. In proof of this purely gratuitous assertion it is said that they have not been able to cope with the forces of civilization; for, if they had, they would have led the industrial movement that has been started among them and would have taken the Uit-landers Uit-landers into their own body and would have retained their position by demonstrating demon-strating they were fit to govern. in otner words, England s position 13 the same old story. Wherever her avarice leads her she justifies her rapine ra-pine and plunder on the ground of civilization, civ-ilization, while she murders peoples and decimates nations in the name of enlightenment en-lightenment and Christian advancement. advance-ment. England's sympathizers take the same view as the Cologne Gazette, at the bottom of which lies English inspiration, inspi-ration, and hence it is no marvel to find the Chicago Times-Herald asserting assert-ing that England's attempted robbery of the Transvaal is a struggle between enlightenment and ignorance. England, for generations, has attempted at-tempted to justify the most horrible crimes in the name of civilization, but when the attempt is made to make people peo-ple believe that the Dutch in the Transvaal are in need of English en-J en-J lightenment, people cognizant of England's Eng-land's history will be struck by the sublimity sub-limity of England's effrontery. j To the charge made by England that she seeks but to civilize, it is enough to read the following from Olive Schrei-ner: Schrei-ner: Men and women are still living who can remember how, sixty years ago, the spot where the great mining camp of Johannesburg now stands, was a great silence, where they drew up their wagons and planted their little homes, and fought, inch by inch, with wild beasts to reclaim the desert. In this great northern land, which no white man had entered or desired, they planted plant-ed their people, and, loving it as men only can love the land they have suffered suf-fered and bled for, the gallant little republic re-public they raised, they love today as the Swiss loves his mountain home and the Hollander his dikes. It is theirs, the best land on earth to them. What a perfidious nation it is indeed that would rob such a people of such a home! |