| Show THE TRANSVAAL SITUATION salt lak laha e city bitiah sept 6 ibid editor 1 I Irl rl buno will you kindly civo ll iho tt culum olun int nit of the trifun Trl TrI bunis oun a clear ond concise statement ot oc thu tho cila c cn ila between en the 11 ranA republic Itro and gres great t Il itala and gro t i MAN ir if liflie inces tho the troubles arose from rom the grievances of 0 tho the Ull landera so called principally those engaged in 1 mining ining at inh and abound johannesz Johan nesb the e coer boer government Is exclusive and oppressive it allows the miners no share in the government either cither state or munica pal and irn imposes posea enormous taxes upon them and their pro product dut direct as to tha output and indirect in the ho customs duties an instance of the latter la Is tho ilia fluty duty on dynamite milich pays a cus tome charge of at about five times the real value of the goods the mining companies are forced to lo pay ta taxes x and to get act at the rull full amount er r returns u are required reoul red ot of the amount ot of ore handled the yield the value and itile the net I 1 e 8 alt and this requirement Is enforced v lih ili the utmost inmost rigor any person railing falling to lo make tile the returns or making ono one not fully up dp to tile real it amount in aunt Is summarily put lit in alli J ill if I 1 a man goes into the transvaal with arms in his possession the arms are arc immediately conne caled and the bunor on nor Is lucky it lie he escapes the jail tho the government indulges in the most e extravagant X trava gant expenditures fak or for orta amis and military supplies city lies right under a hill about flo hundred feet high which Is most elaborately fortified and the threat Is openly made that the town will bo be demolished a on the slightest sign of 0 resistance to the boer authority the miners and mining companies are out redress or a voice in anything that affects them the doer boer officials are arc all getting rich out of 0 the loot and president JC krueger openly declares that he does not propose to see the mines dug duff out and all ait the wealth taken out ot of the country the manner of enforcing this ills ro robbery Is 13 as odious as Us its imposition Is exas exasperating pe rating the Uh phlanders landers demand some show for them themselves seNes and their property and cheso demands are the subject of the recent negotiations and the conditional concessions that krueger Is said pohl to have offered conditioned in such a m way ay that acceptance Is impossible the doer boer governing Go government vernin ent al alro alo o do sires to shake on off british suzerainty and to become absolutely independent IN which aich of course great dillawn does not lot even consider though heretofore lii conceding internal self to the doers boera but the truth Is in tho the bails are arc not content to lo govern them themselves selve 8 they insist on oppressing others they also threaten to destroy all the mines find and the enormous mining machinery that extends forty miles along the reef a loss that would be gloater than tile the aholo hole country Is worth aside from the the boers in short are determined 2 m tied to maintain and cc continue their exactions upon the miners holding them belp lers and the british government Js Is determined that there mall hall be fair play and that tile the one sided elded autocracy or lcy filia cease and you are one side aide must give way inay or tho ilia war viar aklus must t come |
