| Show Fi ms Mt DISSATISFACTION WITH POLICY OF ENGLAND S Strongly FaIt Folt In All of Hor Colon to Send Australian Troops CarrIed Dy By Ono One Vote Voto The War Wor Boldly D Dy By Chief Newspaper and By Prominent of the tho Colonial House 01 o Colonies n Farce Furce m Capetown Jan British press prou has hns devoted much space an and 1 a great grOAt deal or of florid rhetoric to the loyally ot of which Is evidenced y the tho rc with which troops have 1110 boon been for the tho South African the Capetown ot of the Cincinnati En Enquirer The Tho tono of the neWS would 1 indicate that a voice olee or of ot of the war comps comus from th the c colonies A somewhat different slate of circumstances Is III In tn in the comment commont of 01 colonial newspapers The best bOllt known and most mOlt widely rand rORd of at all colonial newspapers n 1 peno the Sydney Bulletin publishes ti cartoon depicting a 0 widow at A tomb tombStone I Stone tone The rt reads adl Sacred to the Memory or of Edney Gilburd Only Son Bon of oC the Widow lie Died Dietl While Shooting nt at Total Strangers In South Africa To 0 Thou and Do Like Likewise Likewise wise Watching the mother la Is n a portly politician who says consolingly There Theres no do doubt bl my dear madam that this splendid notion on the part ot of our government In soothing troops to fight for tor the dear old mother country bears somewhat hell heavily vi In Individual ca eases es yours But Dut you should take n a broader view It has got me my title and lust t think how hO It Il will increase our borrowing In n Its editorial columns the Bulletin says In Jant January nr gang of was alter after n a stiff Urt fight at al to In pmt lIw Kruger ruger might have hac had bad every man captured shot hot Ned the reed mIlt been blen directed against Germans or Frenchmen much pees Sll Spaniards the tho raiders would un undoubtedly undoubtedly have hwe been so treated for tor they were land ant and deserving deserTing or of no sympathy or consideration Kru Kruger Jer ger however handed d them over to the British government and not a 0 hair of their heads Wit was Injured by the After the fight in which the they were cap captured There perhaps never was an In terna lIonal net act of oC greater magnanimity than that dl displayed by Kruger and the to the conscienceless plotters who were prepared to 0 bathe batho their country In blood We hear very little about It now In October 1899 a 11 portion of the Doer Boer General command was shut toted by the British forces In battle wi lih th which the colonies are aro supporting the war It It is desirable that the facts should hould be known What are aro the facts about South Australia for Cor instance In the upper house the motion In favor ot of sending a military contingent was carried only by the costing casting vote oto of the president In the lower house the voting Including pairs was 30 In favor Cavor and ft t 10 fie following extracts from Crom some of this speeches made nalle during the debate will be read with interest lt It was contemptible to bo be asked to take part In R a war wat with little no nations lions which after Itter aU all were fighting their own on and ond their W A Robinson WoUld It not nol be more like Christian patriotism to spend the lime money In cony con with the Destitute Asylum to tn send men to murder their fellow a 0 President Kruger was wat most consul In connection with the raid It An any such attempt had been made In British territory the responsible persons who no were captured would have hae been J Lewis The Boers Joers had been longsuffering and It would be n a big mistake for South Australia to take up arms against It S 1 They he had holl to 10 consider whether In of building up the empire they were fere not helping Its decay There was no enthusiasm for It among the people Indeed so tar far as he could ascertain the people generally dId not nol take the slight eat elt Interest In It It was waR hall bad nt at any anytime time lime to 10 raise the war wor spirit among n a people but I was especially bad to do doo doso so o lust just on the eve ej or of federation In stood of making for unit unity this port fOrt of thing would w snake make snore nore than anything else for Au Australian separation from the rest or of the Bachi lor The premier the ministry the house I and the country countr were not In earnest with the thing at all It was simply one of those thOle for Cor the British speaking world to think that the they were c red to take their share pharo of the res of th the Ir PrIce n He could only onh stigmatize this wretched proposal a 8 It a supreme attempt at al tI on nn the pArt of oC a afew few Cew title hunters The were not with rUh thom them It was wall the tho most monstrous waste of public money mone and ond blood that had ever eer been hlen proposed In Inthe Inthe the Mr Gladstone mat mad no blunder Ills policy was nil right The blunder was tn in the present Archibald They should not offer ott up their man manhood manhood hood a for gold and In inan nn an unholy unjust interference with th the government of II a foreign nation In InA A TT Vor W near Glencoe In the attack on the tho Hoer Doer position Gen Ow Symons the British h leader was mortally wounded And died aCe a few days later he and the other lah wounded belu being left Idl In the hands of at the Boers Joubert tale tolo graphed his sympathy to lady Symons widow ot of his late lato victorious opponent nn an Bet act ot of chivalry that recalls the days das or of And yet ret nt not only are the Doers Boers not credited with but we Australians are told that they thoy are dirty treacherous narrow Ignorant and unprogressive and cowardly to boot The South African Ne News at Cap Capetown town In II a recent Issue prInted the thu following In viI view ot of the statements that are repeatedly made about the enthusiasm A vv N which Australians had located and ana done Immense Immensely Wood WoodIt It was because some somo persons wanted to 10 get some me little kudos that the whole thing had Darling It liS to get possession ot of the great mineral minerai wealth of at the country for tor the speculators And others other who wished to exploit the A large number or of the defense force torce In Adelaide had refused and one rca rea reason son for tor their refusal was that they thoy would rather father atop In South Australia and for Cor the franchise for them l hl than go to South AfricA to fight for tor the franchise of others who we were enjoying them themselves Ie In I England and Australia the continuance or of orthe the Roberts |
