| Show Il THE REAL SITUATION IN THE TRANSVAAL The Boer Side Tofd d For fie First Time Bu a Man Who Was For Years Prominent In Their Councifs Tfie Rapacity of Certain Englishmen Alleged to Be the Cause of the Present Trouble art two aides to the Trans f THUMB 1 Moor > m In l common properly prop-erly the world am The other it I lea I of Omdo1 I oscrMa most non ullr guarded and moat studiously map pressed Ont paints the now M a benighted pprciw and the ulltafidtr IM an 111 lied wlottt denied of lame 1 and country X try The other reprnti the floor so he hem I defender of hla national lift end liberty and points to the ullltndtr molly power At bottom filed deepltt what tltt 1 may be Mid UM whole trouble trou-ble which u disrupting the Transvaal al the present linn trlete from the attempt at-tempt of Cecil llhodl Mid hit tot t-ot fallow apeeulatora and adventurer to PIn pnucMlon by book or orook of the prlcrreea mine of the Bout African Af-rican Republic First among tbnw an the Transvaal oldflelda Not wren excepting the Klondike the IIIK of Krugtr It the 4 clcsI tk11UUC9 JU5rtll h J CIIA IUCItAIN tpe S t s Ak A k b 1 t r t ptv t D 3 fill Kietiii IttLY b 1 r Borst hl l V In miislkY 11pLCAU10N5 JoIUNNty1lt11LG 7 441 IN i Net 4 dt1J a mil k 41 y e 1 on 44 tmck fee a w wy t N Wt t r4 t A lh y a 1 r rO tY X u r t 1 a of sIt s-It t THE WOMAN WHO WOVE THE WEB ABOUT THE TRANSVAAL I u the selfish cinJ mercenary Intruder among an Industrious homely mid is peace loMng people Which U I true Ivan It aomethlng more than n joke cm tho part of link Twain when that American humorist p 1 declared that Cecil JIhad war Indeed sorry closer nun but that he Hark Twain should like I lo hose a pl ct ot I lilt ropt when li dint II President M Kruger after all the oerptnlllw and unscrupulous uulixral I Hut the llrlllnh r colonial Office Muulil hate the World W Iraaglnt and la I Hn > Barr olwuya known by tin mark of Hie bnuM and the I AngloHaxon nlwaje the snarl I think not Aa on old resident of e the South African luputllc at a man It fairly well tertnl In Term nvi al affair I 1 and in u repentant and nonowing participator 11 1 par-ticipator In titinta 1 ut nuMoualy trust bird times at the loner I mil of the dark 11 0 continent 1 bellmt I um ublo to speak sp with aomo Unit cart lrllun on Untie n things pertaining to she Transvaal a about which tin outtldt world at preo fit oil I nuiterlouily blinded c Tht folios tail Candid statement of the t actual roiidlllon ol South African at l fair la Intended u Mill he auld to I present i I pre-sent only the Hour ride of Hit content now taking place In and about the ht lIr 1 South African llnpuhllr It much U the h > i I 1 cate I ran only may my utllludt li I a H I mnlttr of tvldtnrt unit not ont ot oil Micaiy Title slut 1 101 therefore li I up II an endeavor on my part to present the I facti ni I hat found them and while 1 the information In ru Imparted li I given 1 ai authentic II li 1 tired without mm ju meet or conscious I irejudlct by the W 1t present tier Th Transvaal restitution In a nutshell r to t simple Plunder nor 11111 + Is Its Ill grtntnt cold pnxluclnn country In she world Hut its mining Industry on the othtr hand li I practically Iht only profit > lellrn busies In tilt Transvaal Uold inlnlnc lutal liur broadly connll tulia nlntttntbi of the avallablt national tional assets 1 of the fi > ermiiinl ol thai republic The natural Indutlrlta In fact yield the Horn only the burnt malnterianct lad when taken clone leave them scarcely enough to meet the navel paper later undo which all real 1 ablate It I hold In that republic Tit prepare pre-pare I for the niortaiAl 1 expenses of KOV rrnintnl Kruivr hat justly and nto marlly Invited UMQII Hit prollla ruIn ru-In from flint Industry whhh brought but Hit mere costly condlllona of life need government The nursing ot precious metals AIn It li I wall known dom not do much to Wahl rMyninntlitly iltttloplnii a country i coun-try Althouili noint ot the I Hand Intel are paying dividends aa high aa M 100 anti ten MO Air writ on their urlllnal apllallaalloiia aa declared by the com panlrt title aa n rule may It token u nt time Iht actual cash put In torh cat HUD Hit dtttlopmrnl ot the country about which ao much ham been 1 sting by ho AngloHonon agitator Paurnttha of thin Htallh Accordingly being I franchise values la moil tiiulta bly lilbjtrt to u nroporllonatt share In leering the burdtiu of lha republka government Hut the Indiinillablt l and IrrtprttalMo Cress hind In spite of Ihli showing hat ili lauil and 1 allll dnliirea that film obllllt tax of the Kruger administration ad-ministration are Iurnhllll still 1 even droIII the entire Industry oC mlllin In Ihr counter Hut Mr llhodti Mitotic rOII to marline that In a olnal ear he and Mr hull cnch rn calved 1 ai founders of Tilt OoUfltMa of Koutn Africa Llmlltd rho awn of SIMJM or an equlvaltflt of HWMOt lack In American money Thett band some aalarit wan paid over and abort Iht customary dlTldtoda both imlW men receiving 1 their money baton tot eta kholdon wm pall This ton not allofelhtr bear out the alaltratal of Mr Rbodtt that the fold Indintrr 1 of the South African lupnbllo WM frittr Ing from ovttlaxallon Hut to let at the root of the present trouble no limit no barK a little Han ever bon whttl llhodix 1 who scents to has 0 a pension for I IWHB over nimu In like nlneplna calmly announcwl his propoaltlon lo amalgamate Hit whale of Houlh Africa Into an Hnillih speaking colon In thorough and unit ad aympathy wllh Hit home Severn men Such a declaration at one placed Kruier 1 and Ilhakn l In the political arena together each lo battle for hit own On hud a hunnr for iMllllcal peony I wealth and tame The other was drtrriiilnet lo maintain tilt liberty and positivist linearity of hla country Then followed the Inevitable breach and the AnilciHuxon found that lit was bucking up against a itmngir power than fee hail thought for Ttitn too mini I thoolonmlated l c hone or lion rt and his delaratlon In the moil oilmen talwblt fertile that lit had acctptttl the motto MIr for the Atrlkondora In hit iechia at the time lit urged the tulles born young men throughout South Africa to secure the best possible education llo advoratrd such while giving Hum to understand trot I In the mar future Hit prliea of olllct would In iirefrrnbly bellowed upon all native born landldulta proving Ill to t receive 1 Hit mm Hud a plan at oitot pimpled 1 and united the younger tltintnt among the DutchKngllih and Irrman ml 1 dents ot Mouth Africa Mr 1 Ithudta wait duly boon premier of rapt Colony and btcamt for the moment the Idol ot the Afrlkandtrlmnd a loan de voted to Hit promulgation of such Ideas aa theme held by Hit political buccaneer Aho was at their head Hut In Hit tmuntlmo llh < xlei hail stretched out hit arm and oUnlm from old txibtnirula the privilege to March for gold In Matabrlrlrin I Th < rt woo at Hit aamt time an und ntandlng that Hhodta should drive out unl hop from hat I country all umlolrablt adtren tumt laving thus one not hold I of Tirt tlth Iht African kings call lock 1 It la file tory that the gentle Cecil seen had the old thlefa head amt him country lira Rut all this li I another story Now we malt go bark lo Kroner HP too had ilvtn hop and encouragement encourage-ment 10 the youthful Afrikander lo educate tllmwlf for future official pool Hong In hit government Under the rhaand oondltlona arlrinc out of the sudden great hold discoveries however Krugtr seems middtnly to have abandoned aban-doned that aalntarr and pairlotla policy pol-icy Iltapomlvt to the influence of Mr 1 heck the ant secretary and later Id away by the parade mngneelem of Dr W J Lard the second man tary of the republic and at preterit the trabaaaador VMWral I to the European eomitrlea the new Kruger oligarchy Ito caUMd I-to bt Imported from Holland a Urge number of young Netherlander and upon thOU atrangtra bettow I d practically every ogle ot prom In the gift of the governmentI Rhode gild Idi following accordingly failedlo Peruse Ih Ir ciiwcted official plum Their lngll h born > Dung aiplranla I for iincial holdings came Hocking back front i Iho heat t schools of Kngland and Ibe wllneiit only li > find llholei horn ot till lost ahrtil of aNallablo patroness i Discontent was the result Hut don lent was lust what llhodta wonted They would look to him for relief lit would ut a second Hotel In a Mouth African detert Though Krugtr was politically Immune llhodta MW Hut In ould ne Tlllw slick a financial danger dan-ger Into iho rllia of tire unsophisticated and bucolic old hoer ao hi became Hit muter mind In the foreign development oC Iht Transvaal goldfields Idea and the practical dictator of all ot Mouth Africa Had he stuck to Hit rule of thom tho-m llhoilei might leave won llut to tick to rules was never the principle ol Iht iitntlt Cecil Instead of clinging to Hit cry of Africa for the Afire kandtrt and overthrowing the Krugrr oligarchy by the aid of legitimate Transvaal discontent llhodta chose a croaked path having another end Homey Home-y the hope of an llngllth Irase I In ilcalvd him Rave lay ht merely bit off more than ht could chew At ant rate an-t wtutrn the years 111 and 13 l several 1 ihungea crept over Mouth Airs nil IKMil Discontented speculators wad like iHel I over Hit ROldtn hlVM of Hit Hand The name of Kruger was not honey In Hit mouth of the Afri knottier of Capo Colony llhodti with Hit battered I company behind him and a Me London bank account to draw on wu able 1 lo foment a dtllghtfully sells factory amount of unreel In Hit TransVaal Trans-vaal Ktuger was mailed Under Hit evil couniili of Dr UyJi the president had been ted to ally himself tu a num her oC continental avenlurore German French and Dutch and In them wen ranted a number ot valuable concef Nana and monopollet Till WOO certainly cer-tainly unfair to his own countrymen Among Ihttt granla the most Important Impor-tant wen the dynamite the railway and 1114 dlitlllny conctttlone These Industries were promoted by the Imp Ilion ot practically prohibitive Import dulle Krugtr personally 1 believe i lr was honest In all this ai In feel ho U In every act but tot the lime being hli judgmtnt wag dimmed by the Intel lecluat dexterity of l > r fords Kruger II must bt remembered while a man of win and real fore ta I narrow of vision and alrtoet rabid In I his fear of the ah Partition of lib country Into the iirltiih empire OK more The haunting fear hat led him uneonMlotwIy to play into the hand of the foxllkt glade who ot could I afford lo wall and calmly law the Great Appropriation extend the bound of Cape Colony shackle the Free Dial with a foreign railroad atbtr up an empire and parrel II out among the friend of the ultlander = rh I Then the premier of the l rapt look Ml Hill t trip to London This vlilt to London wait Cecil nbodw Rubicon While lit manifestly went on the private pri-vate btMln i of thhirt i i it and to talk up hli Cap to Cairo scheme he had certain olhtr things up hU ilttvt Hut in London lamtthlnK happenid Ont day a young lady oallcd on Cecil llhodea Hht was a very itlrllih and nave and demur torsion wool title I aamt young lady but the baa been I called the storm petrel of the Whiffs colonial Office Thin > oung lady was II Mlei riora haw She was the colonial editor of the London Ttmta Hit angel the bulldert knew of empire and the I so touch about the bualnrti of the colonial colo-nial olllit that Joseph Chamberlain woo In the habit of getting lo her for advice ad-vice and the under ttcrelarlet were n I more or leal afraid ot her Was how had studied the South African alluallon for some lime to when Bite eat down and began lo talk to llhodea of file poet sections with a fumlllarlly that wot at lean nitoumllnr that gentleman opened open-ed his eyes Now the mapmaker of Mouth Africa li I a bachelor and It not quit1 a woman hater he has no corner llt1 r Ar In lift scheme of lift for sympathy or couniel from a young lady at least never before this fateful minding had ht been known to Peek female nailit once or sympathy In file work Deform this It 1 li I said ht would not confldt even In hla own Plotter llut in the cae of Flora haw U 1 woo different 1 She was n Person lo I Ink from of She lit I came idle London pros agent on flee pot and later his Joobylit with tile Imperial authorlllt This charmlnir melange of journalism femininity and Imperialism Wes Use gobetween from Ithodei lo Btorttary Chamberlain for many months and 01 the purllamen lacy Inquiry after the Jameion raid brought out she had a firmer hand on the control oC South African events than had Chamberlain hlfflnlf Woo It she who tint tempted Ithodei from tin original Africa for Afrlkindtri prln effete amt inweil within his mind the nlll edo of that later I Imperlallatlc paealonf Th answer seem obvlou When llhodti left Cat Town for London and before hit talk with Mlla Shaw he was undoubtedly timers In his Afri kander support II la I tlniular but alg 1 nlncant that In this his tint departure from his rule not to confdt In a woman wo-man ht should have met with dltatttr Kxaclly what It was that caused hw Plana to chang from n pita for the native iKrn lo the magnificent and In I tonlcallng vision of a vast Ilngllill empire atretrhlng acrota the southern half of the dark continent will never Io I known Is nks nine dot Mn Shaw der Ides lo enlighten the world Par bat an agreement wee made with a Certain member or members oC the 1m pcrlnl cublnel nolwllhatandlng the torrent tor-rent if official repudiation which waa poured forth subsequent upon the Jamnon Baaco Itrbap Ihe directors of the Chartered company hook their money bngt too clout to the can ot this young Ilonaparle of peaceful ac qulaltlnn rnhapa some hint of a peerage peer-age did the Macbeth act with him At any rate all subsequent history in Houth Africa find ill Gnat DIvMt In that ont I cheap which took place In Mile plane of Cecil Hindi when he mad that I fatal vlalt to Bnln awl talked > 1 itop one day with 11 lore Shaw When Rhodes went back to the Cp ht I did not openly Inform any ot idle co workera of the file ngl In hli plans Dr llarrla wan left InIxindon ni the link Iwtwcen hlmttlf and Mlta Vhaw who wai again the link between liar rim and Joseph Chamberlain Unrest had been Increasing at the Cult and faun Clouds began to gather The rt fun m coniinllltt at Johannetburv lit I ame loudly demonstrative und ai lr Jamtion Hill Ignorant ot Rhoda change of front was then administrator adminis-trator In the territory of he chartered company ht mo > ed film tear down mouth to llafcklng Hit excuse for dulng so was that the men were to t bt owed lo hold In check the iilaconlenttd bilge of natlvet In that quarter In Johannetburif Colonel frank IlliOItaa I brother of Cecil together wll John Hayes Hammond and a number of other had come out to the hoed under contract lo act aa mint man offers all working upon the text of Africa Af-rica for the Afrikander and the reform of the Trnnnanl within itself Ham mond executive genius oon won speedy recognition and though he was handsomely salaried by the capitalist whose mines ht operated ht readily entered Into the Hrlllih era plot lo Improve forcibly the constitution of the Trannaol Under the new condition American Uerman and Knglllbmen were alike to step In I for the governmental plume and recelv lust trade chnncn 1Imoll patrons pa-trons accordingly put him In charge oC mining proportion ta oath ill txlen lhat ht was tried the mailer of over 1000 nblcbodltd whllt men and marl twice thai number of native worker Hammond had his whites armed with unwashed rifles and luccceded In workIng work-Ing UII among thrill art active revolts llonary organlxatlon Other operative comerna did the same and aa the hr tfrlral fever of liberty or death opened a well armed revolutionary body was set on foot Wt have now come to the events occurring oc-curring during the month of December IIH During that aame month the wires hAd been kept hot between London Lon-don and Car Town livery message wag In clphtr and after Inspection nt the Caps II was rent on to Johannesburg Johannes-burg The cloud darkened Krurtr woke up and suddenly undrnlout that a dorm had gathered and wai about to break The members I of his i ablnet nil but clung about hit litert benefits him lo avert whit seems 1 the Inevitable In deference to his old companion In I anna and not through any bar this sets blmrn old Doer al lat consented 10 guilt a delegation fron the returns Commllfee and even went so far a to promise poonc rrtorme Hut her mod apple cart was kicked over Anl then by hostile n tat and a very tad ont tl I Anglhan ears The foot that kicked the cart was Dr JimeionB The III fated Jamra raid became a mutter of history and Kruger tlralghtwty declared 1 that his promises to the reform committee wore nullified by that lawless art Hut on hr did then reformer ask for a rmrllnt with tho TranivaHI president win n their original plan had been l to fir e Closer to make an armed demonitra Hon agalnat Johannesburg and If poml 1 Isle provoke the Hoen Into firing first shot Many have Hopped to ask the meaning mean-ing of this strange Incongrully Th Irith has never bran told and In rl cltl circlet the question has I nlwosi been availed The secret of th wh I liiilneei was the duplicity of C11 IthodM Who failed to dlirlim his Chang of plant to hli colleague The reformers oC Johannesburg wonted A purl South African amalgamation fir llhodti looked over and yd their heads and kept him eye on Hit broader I Imperial horlion where Itii cloud ot annexation allll floated no bin Rar than a manl hand life timidity was l the Thins that saved the Houth At rlftnn llepubllc U was not until Iho It Cw day of Itt That the truth leaked out In name ohicure hint m nl by certain ot llhodea Unselfish natoc hot nAnd n-and In a remark or two dropped In Cape Town by Ithodem hlmIt Jut about this time we find Dr uneeon very tulles though not > ct oIlilnK hli frlenda change from democratic to Imperialistic deami Iir Jim went wire I after wire I to file chl fat f-at the Cap asking for light Chafing under Ilhodea amblgultle and puiil d by the teeming uncertainty and paroly Pin 1 that had come over file director Dr Jim kicked over 10 hafts cut the wire between hit Illtla army and lies rrnnmaat capital and at the same lima out the lat thread from which hung rho hopee ot a Houth African empire In the nineteenth century Then followed his dash morass the border lie was met by the heir and harossat and hemmed In until ht could do nothing but run up his whllt flag ot urrnJr Then II was JIhad In his hour or terrible disappointment crlid bitterly fly 1 nod Jim has kkkid over my apple curt The phrase became be-came historic II was the well loaded apple cart of n brilliant man who was and atlll li In the hand of a rapacious group ot Knit 1110 capitalists and moneyed advin turen whose hunger for dividends < la I OJ great ai their hatred for the lloer This Door on the other hand has A lordly contempt for gold gating In all Ito sordid phi i He grinds title teeth lo think gold was ever found In his ic luded little homeland Tha capllallitl know that theft gold mInon oC the TrIIAI site worked by I i number of limited joint lock companies com-panies and that In case ot a war be Infest Kngland and the Doers the price oC Pharos will go down till socks can la I secural fora mere 0on0 The nol atop would be to consolidate the whole nlnlng Interstate under a alnglt mammoth mam-moth trust for nt a fair capllalliallon oC the profits mlnea to operated would leld many mlllloni each ear Behind all the present trouble art wine ot the wealthiest and mot Influential men In the business world and the whole thing ai I hId h-Id before la I limply a plot on the part oC n group of copltnllita to secure poi nation of A property known to be hugely huge-ly I profitable from w hlch they have bei n lantallrlnily turned away time and time again IMcauPo Kroger will not give A band oC reckless and shish adventurers everything for which they have the pre 1 lImllIn to Ak this 00 called opprCl lon I twlstel Into nn excuse for amore A-more powerful nollon to sweep away the 1 8tral home the hoer has md for himself In order that the august capltollots oC London nay ho the prlillegt ot raking In a few million pounds sterling more n year from gold and diamond mining In the land that llet north ot the Diver Vaal Such la I the result or the whole Transvaal trouble trou-ble I |
