| Show seVERS SEVERE SETBACK FOR JINGOISM The British jingo has bas been thrown down bard hard and unmerciful He TIe was very urgent for the suspension suspension suspension sion of the Cape Colony constitution The Cape Colony is like Canada and Australia a self govern ing portion of ff f the British empire It has a Parliament Parlia ment and responsible Ministry of its own There is however r a a. a very large Dutch population in the colony colony col col- ony ony- anti and the sympathies of that population went out very strongly in the last war to the burghers in their gallant fight against Britain The loyalists of the colony embittered 8 against the Dutch for siding with their brethren have ha been clamoring for the effacement effacement ef- ef of the Cape Colony Parliament and government gov gov- t now very largely under Dutch influence e with the Yie view first of gratifying vengeance an and ami J upon the Ill I'll ruins ins of ot 1 the e colony's constitution an mi ultra British oligarchy Lord Lord Mil Mil- lInner n ner r tho British commissioner in ill South Africa favored fa- fa tim the suspension of pf the tIle constitution and so did Mr lr Joseph Chamberlain Secretary of State for the Colonies s. s Sir J John Gor Gordon on Sprigg Premier of oC Cape Colony in his attitude of opposition to suspension was sl supported ted by all the Colonial Premiers in London London London Lon Lon- don particularly Sir Wilfrid Laurier Prime Minister Min inister in- in ister of Canada All of these colonial statesmen feared the creation of a precedent portending grave rave danger to their constituencies Sharp passages are said to hay occurred have on the subject between the Premier of Cape Colony and Mr Chamberlain The latter laUm has been heen obliged to eat his own words and sentiments a n process not very Tery agreeable to so bump a statesman The South African Prime Min Mm ister accurately sums up the situation If Hlf the pe pe- pe had been heen granted it would tm have haye caused hension regarding the position of every evelY self govern overn- overn ing colony since tince it involved the whole hole question of free ree c constitutional government O The decision will promote peace pence and reconciliation in South Africa The TIle suspension of the constitution would have had a al' al l' l reverse effect The rejection of the petition of the ultra loyalists is a decided victory for colonial au au- tOil om The conference of the Colonial Premiers is not likely mely to result in anything more definite or enduring enduring enduring en en- during than the accentuation of colonial ence This will win prove in the end much more satisfactory satis- satis factory than any scheme for 01 the absorption of the coloni colonies S in an imperial federation curtailing or effacing ef facing that right to self government Belf-government for which our o. o own forefathers struggled so 80 heroically and so trio tri |
