Show TK CK MENACE IN SOUTH AFRICA Tile The Dormant Fires Cues of Old Time Savagery Threaten to Bi Break ea Out Among the tho South African Natives Now That tile the Boers and the British Are at War J black Is 1 it bor South for Cor bloods TUE tighter died ms bred In hIs bones After eh of oC Intertribal Ge c of oC oCIa takeS not to the ways fuel be Ia and mand caw this when her redcoats African soil She Sho learnd learn Wt It a se nd on ln time when she sho attempted t d It a herself the tho molder of oC South 1 make Those restless black an strong g hI anti and valleys alleys and and lain laing lainE OFf Zambezi have had to be beh ot of the E nth with rUh nn an Iron hand hund h d d down xa once nee that creat Iron hand was the kopJes k and kraals oC South glad Blod enough to Join forces with the tho burgher But thoro are other blocks blacks In South Bouth than Zulus and Today there thero dwell below the river between and dusky aborigines To hold these In Incheck incheck check there are altogether some In the there thero are aro throe blacks to every white In Natal there are eight blocks blacks to every overy white man Taking nil ot of South Africa Into consideration there thero are ara at least ten tan dark skinned natives for Cor every cery white settler All these blocks blacks may bo be divid divided ed Into two classes cla ses One class Is made up oC bf the tribal and still more mora or loss wild willI natives who have never yet pass pd under the tho yoke ot of civilization The Tho Theother other ether class Is made ups of oC the tho natives who have token taken to trousers and Indus Industry try tr who labor on the tha farms work In Inthe the tho gold and diamond mines and are inthe In the tho employ of oC theIr white masters In Inmany many different capacities They work not because they lovo lovd work but be pause the now new order of oC things et ed with the tho Incoming ot of the tho Anglo Saxon demanded that they labor leave the tho country or perish Even tho ap apparently peaceful laboring classes among the have to have the th potent po potent tent bayonet point held significantly over them as a 11 gentle remInder that law and order and n a law and order novel noel to them Is IB their present heritage The fhe veneer of oC civilization which has hall been forced er these does not go vary vory deep They have been forcibly disarmed forcibly domesticated imam ham hammered and coerced Into the use ot of the boo hoo and the pickax But the power that has haR done all this has hns been beon suddenly shown hown up In 1111 Its Ita weakness Every man It CAn call upon It needs In Its struggle against a toe foe who Is numerically infinitely Interior Inferior to the tho passive black In whose heart th the spark of oC rebellion still bums bum Among the wilder tribal natives the feeling ot of revolt levolt must bo be still stronger Thu Tho man mantle mantle tle of at hiS has never been forced on their shoulders they the have never noer passed under the colonial yok ok with and to fight Is still as natural with then them nil nu to eat When It Is 18 bathe In mind that Chief Chlor ot of the Da Ba autos BUtOS can out ot of his men call armed warriors one halt of which number could take the field armed with modern rUles rifles and all In a 1 state or of more or less efficient discipline some Iome Idea Idoa or of tM the possible fighting strength of at the tho entire population ot of South Africa when once may ho be gained D Is n a somewhat limited territory with nn an area of square miles but owing to Its position between the tho Orange Free FreD Stale the he Capo Cape Colon Col Colony on ony and Natal the attitude ot of Its binok population just nt at the present time Is Isa Isa a very Important consideration with Grent Britain The Tho Crown Colony Colon ot of I I l t I II 1 rrth i VI 1 I r 1 YEATMAN AG ON ONI j c cr I ri r v i l Afra At the a have hae been steeped In blood So the Angers were on throat ot of the tho native The native writhed r l and ete struggled under that lf pr pies ure but the hand proved ZUlu r than the throat It held and and sad and Tonga and Walks hung flung away aay their al and UI and slunk back to their vii 1 with theIr protestations of peace on ups but hear eternal enmIty In their Today work the great trop ron hand has other to do All Ail Its is strength Is do de ban ed In the ho White Tho struggle of white against vital question at such a jI Will the blacks take tt ct advantage war At between the the burghers and Will they seize the op to gratify this dormant pu pas slim sHill for tor bloodshed Will the natives ot of Africa once more take toko up arms and he bo cause ot of th the preoccupation or 01 the impotency im potency of their old time white masters who hitherto have held beld them down deluge t the e lower half of oC the tho dark conti neat neut In blood and turn the hands bonds of oC the clock ot of civilization back n a century or two by the tho savageries and atrocIties which would be sure to follow Such questions It Is not easy to an am answer saver Just what such an uprising would stand for Cor however It Is not difficult cult to understand There Thero have been ninny many symptoms and ond not a few tew actual occurrences to show that such Buch neon a con Is tar f lr from remote Thu Tho bur burgh burgh gh ra of th the fr h have aHead hall had a clash or of arms The have havo also applied to the l Ing n nIsh Ish for tor permission to go on the tho warpath and wipe out In their own savage way certain old scores they hold against the These hate their lr neigh hors bora the Zulus almost as Ouch much as a they hate the BOilS Nothing could ever evor make a zulu Zul and a fight side by side The Zulu on the other hand ham ro re romen men Inen bers ber a 1 cruel trouncing or two Great Britain gave gao him not so man many Y ara ago It Is true ho he abominates the Doer Boer even more than he dislikes the Ule English but against the English and the combined he bo be S Is over five times the extent ot of having an area fen of oC some 1000 square miles malice Through Throughout out this territory dwell over O OO nil na naties ties th es North or of the colony proper stretches itself reach reaching I ing away awa north as far Cor as the Zambezi river lies at the lower end I of oC this territory white while farther up to toward toward ward the stretches the great Kalahari desert Adequately to police pollee this Immense district Is impossible The natives who wander about Its wilder wildernesses wildernesses nesses have for tor some time been held moro more or less In check cheok by the whites but where here the pale of oC civilization ends be beyond yond the actual Influence of oC the English troopers also ends Zululand today Is supposed to have hao a ablack black population or of about Ton goland galand just to the north up the tho const coast has hall also n a native population of oC about Swaziland just northwest or of orthis this again has hns n a population that le Is lebard bard lIard to determine The Th fighting pow powers ers era of oC Its natives however are not great for tor the they are nn an agricultural and peace loving people There are however supposed to be some somo ot of these pastoral natives In Swaziland and just how they would net act when the Infection of revolt reached them It Is hard to Ea say In the South African itself there are aro some blacks So these different figurea fig urea are somewhat disquieting when considered In connection with the menace men menace ace the black offers to civilization In id Soups Africa It can enn easily be seen lIlen how the tho attitude ot of these different black races Is ono one ot of the most Important factors apart from the actual denouement of the tb present struggle between the and the tho Doer Boer which have to b be taken Into con consideration consideration In South Africa It can b be understood too tip tint are anxious to take leko a 0 hand In any nn fighting that may Inay be niong to whether It Is merely f a question DB as their theil fear fur COI the well Iron hand or of life tho English or theIr dormant Instincts for bloodshed and savagery will Jet get the tho mastery master The man who has perhaps more todo to todo do with the tho eventual outcome of oC thIs other Individual Is question than any the tho c ot of time the The Initial move should nay be made would In all probability como come from hIm hu has lead lIal ever every reason to show its e to Groot Britain It Is Indebted to this power for tor the early arly recognition ot of statehood In 1843 1613 and also for 1 a subsequent Intervention on the tho part ot of England which Insured the existence or of as a state tut thanks are ure not always given Where thanks are ure In r colonial work When Great grunted n a practical once ence to the Orange Free State Stale the tho question ot of the tho boundary line between the new slate late and nd wall vas loft loftis condition rather rother unsatisfactory I is n a claim of oC the tho astute astuto na Ba suto sUIo chieftain of oC 60 years ago go was that territory extended wherever his own toot foot hind had pressed the ground or any of hla hili people had once oneo dwelled It was In 1617 that nn an approximate line known all as the Warden line was drawn to define de defino fine fino time tho western limits of Sir George Clark noted for tor Great Gront Britain when the burghers and emigrant farmers delegates to come to terms about the tho c t c zt once ence of oC the Orange Orance sovereignty When he was teas asked b by them for Information os as to old treaties he stated that war tva between trio powers breaks all treaties and ond that the British government therefore bad hod no treat trealy with Chief This left facing Ids oppressors the Boers as nn am Independent power and he was no not long In taking advantage of the tho situa situation lion tion promptly placed trim his frontier line within 20 mien of oC Bloem while the Orange Free were most anxious to see hint him safely be behind hind the Caledon river After ACter n a tew years Industriously spent In the tho eon con consolidation of his scattered tribes o declared war on the tho Orange FreeState Free State And no Idle little war It ryas It lasted tour four long Ions years rears In the earlier part of oC that struggle with tho fierce blocks blacks ot of the burghers suffer suffered ed severely and It was not until the tho Dutch community under time the or of Sir John Brand made a special effort and put a large and effective force In Inthe Inthe the Held field that and hl his native warriors were driven back They were forcibly ejected from Crom the wide wi dc rich lying to the tho cost cast ot of the Orange e Free Freo State and were driven back foot tw by toot foot Into the tho barren heights of oC the mountains At t that time they numbered over altogether and they thoy found them themselves ehe without ter upon Ullon whIch to feed their wander wand wandering fir ing and ond homeless people The Boera shoWed them no mercy mere and b by 1605 practically alt all ot of theIr territory had been taken possession lolI of oC by the Or Orange Orange ange Free State The starving In their ml ma appealed to Great Britain Great Britain came emme to their rescue but In n a away way wa not altogether unselfish She Sho pro proclaimed claimed all the territory of the tho as her own and nt at once therefore anti and with honest and unspeakable Anglo Saxon indignation ordered all the com cOin commandoes of at the oppressive burghers out or of the territory they had overrun England then stepped In herself herselt At first eight Ight It looked like hike a case calle of out ot of the frying pan Into the tire lire but self selfIsh lab Ish all us original motives mothes may have hoo ben been at the time ot of her llon that act was certainly a coo cool 1 for Cor A As a acon thing such stich the of at consequence con qUence reservation of oC land blacks received n a sufficient to support their population flourished on they the well wall have and so during the tho rich lowland their their numbers hl have last 30 years doubled that and they thoy have 1110 bp be than moro more under the ot como their numerical and the pret overpopulation It Is still II a ot of euro dream with theIr people to cherished they thoy owned and the tho territory regain All century ago roamed over half a 11 their lund land Is taken up and now your male population Is forced their by travel year and seek work worle In to Colony In the Transvaal In time tho Capo Cape and even In the homes S ot of their Natal tho Free Fr old time In Inand Every who ho goes Stators search of oC country In and out of oC his co work today la 11 forced to travel through the fruitful plain or of tho river which his sun still call tha he con can conlie territorY Some lie ho there hopes once more to put up his kraals thore Ire He feels Indeed that the present tine time would not be n a bad one for tor making the that heis he heIs wonder onder then effort ellort Is It any Is aching to lake tolo up atm arms against tho Hour Yet 1 et ho once be to do so 18 It possible to sot sat un any limits to the tho extremes to which his ancient hatred would drive him Time The man who at present has hio the tusk of oC holding the In check Is Sir Sira G a Yeatman and it oan ho seen that his responsibility Is no light one Should the Zulus on the tho other hand seize the offered by the f 2 2 r i ir f f r t JR IcS r rr 1 r t I It Ir c t A AJA I r JA r SCOUT w wI I ter C GIVING I t C l t r r c l 1 J i te roo S Si t war to strike for tor the tree free door dom they have sullenly been heen looking for Cor so long r England would Indeed her ller hands full During her lost last Zulu war tear England as she well remembers was for tor n a time overmatched and su sho learned to her sorrow orrow that the wielders ot of the were wert no foes Coes lie Her final victory Ictor was bought only after aCter the tho most deplorable bloodshed A second encounter with lIb those South African fanatics s IR at any time most thoroughly dreaded by England For Fan this reason the tho land hand that has held them down has mAde It a principle al always always ways to show more claws than velvet Doubly dreaded would woul l be a ZulU outbreak out outbreak break when England has hos her hands tied lied lIy by a struggle with her African white This Zulu who Is now watched so eo apprehensively Is the best native fighter In nU nil South Africa Never has dark skinned rival beaten heaten him and hits his vanquishers have been the English themselves though at what terrible cost only England widows pension list 1181 can show Physically ht he Is n a powerful active fearless and Ind splendid Mage But Dut beyond this ho can claim another secret of oC power and that Is In Inthe Inthe the mysteriously splendid organization or of his forces It was way bock back nt at the beginnIng ot of the century that the great Zulu chief gave this strange black people their first superiority over oer theIr ammo milS mice on the tho battlefield At that time the Zulus were one of the weakest ot of the South African tribes They i split up Into factions and warred eter rally upon ullon one another One the chief of at n a neighboring tribe tell fell In with some English soldiery about that tied and marveled l nt at their wonderful formation and methods When hI he returned re turned to his hll own people he began to organize them Into brigades regIments nod and companies and Ind drilled then them after the British fashion The result was In Inevitable Inevitable evitable After ACter such Buch organization his enemies always wondered why ho was ala always so successful on the battlefield lie He had Il a lieutenant nt n a youth ot of fierce and stupendous energy or of time the name ot of This young oung man In turn quiet quietly ly studied the tho organization of at wu was army ormy and r w that the tho 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