Show SHAMEFUL AND abominable it Is a shameful and abominable bustness business all round out of which no englishman can extract a grain of satisfaction but it if ever men died with their blood on their own heads they are the men who fell in this raid and if ever prisoners of war deserved scant mercy jameson and his comrades are arc those prisoners they may thank their stars that they have fallen into the tate hands of men who are not likely to 0 treat them as they themselves treated the matabele wounded and prisoners it Is not two years yet since poor old lo 10 ben was hunted to death lie he has been well and speedily avenged with jameson or any who act ilk like e him I 1 have no sympathy but nothing will convince me that he acted in this business without the knowledge or the approval of his chief and patron mr cecil chodes though I 1 have no regard for heroes of this pattern it Is obvious that jameson Is a popular man with the faculty of inspiring unbounded d trust and confidence in those around and under him I 1 suspect the truth to be that it Is for these and other qualities that he has been selected for his position by rhodes and lie he will add one more to the many who have served that ambitious and crafty individual to their own ruin for such unscrupulous treachery whether hatched with the complicity of the dummy directors at home or not the company must pay the penalty the history of the company Is disgraceful from beginning to end it began by tricking lobengula out of halt half hla his dominions it went on to rob him by violence of the other halt half its recent policy has been to hire ruffians for filibustering raids and to manipulate the results for stock exchange purposes such operations are a mere adapt lon of the methods and morals ot of captain kidd to the requirements of modern civilization that the british government should ever have counte danced such doings is a disgrace to us and we are reaping the result now in the unconcealed aversion or contempt of all other nations at the head of this company are two dukes one of them a relative of the queen and their professions of ignorance of the plot sprung last week sho show w them to be mere ornamental figure heads who have hired themselves to a financial gang like the show directors of humbler companies in order to cover the designs of the real principals and secure influence in the r right ight q quarter aar that the thing has haa b been een profitable to them must be assumed and there can be no doubt that it has haa been advantageous to the hirers to make money has been the one object of all and all have doubtless succeeded but every farthing that has been made has come out of the pockets of british investors ve and has hag been stained with the or of african natives to all this Is now added that in the pursuit of their designs this crew are ready to defy every national obligation and every principle 0 of international law to draw the he national honor through the mire and to jeopardize the safety of 0 the empire even at a most critical moment in the international history |