| Show ox OS tin 1111 wn i i Lord JAn Rosebery I as having paid MId last week In J In Scot Scotland land thai he be was W I ln l w t think that some day there would c Th U a 11 go bold enough to face the b problem and consider Whether J not bp Well u e l 1 In the tM Un of off a av v f f i h n tt d and Ireland tills connection j fi wc tet that the bc M e f r a Ii work uh uld not equal 1 the In two months of n melancholy ar dragging on I In South Africa If ho added by lIy any all mends that war could be shortened by b two months would bo be money moncy for Cor the tunnel That Thal Is considered nn an exceedingly significant utterance nil far as ns It re relates lates to the South campaign U It certainly the tho fact that expenses s for fo Will war purposes are ara extravagant In tho extreme amI that money spent for lor conquest could be used to much renter advantage in the tho service Of It Industry commerce H It Is especially noticed dInt Lord Ito eb ry characterized tho Doer Boer war waran an nil melancholy few tew will dispute I tho tha correctness of this term In a n few fow days illys It will be exactly two years since the ho first battle nt Dundee I was Willi fought Then It was thought all would bo be over overby by b Christmas but the Is still continued the disaffection j the people In III Capo Colony seems to bo be berenter renter greater now than at nt any nn previous time There thero are more than under Lord command but Lut It seems that force Is considered Inadequate quate for tho devolving upon th m mIt It I III true the tho have lost all visible ble bases of ot and are arc cut off orr from to tho coast Con at It Is also so true truo that their government Is broken up Hut la III it rt force estimated ut at from to In the thu field at var various lIr ious lous points The Tho situation Is certain melancholy both from a n British and Doer Boer point of or view It Is still more BO so when It la Is con that Great has been hellI forced to havo ha 0 recourse recours to 10 the I he system which brought upon O n In Cuba tho criticism of tho tM entire civilized world London t tt these In South Bouth Africa recently held mm per Iler rons Oll and that 2315 had died during one on month of ot which 1878 were children That tells an melancholy tale of ot the situation For these the 1 mostly women children and other that ore nrc ex elt exposed posed IJo ed to 10 hunger tho of the weather and numerous hardships necessarily Incident to t life In auch camps When everything Is considered the th situation l Is III melancholy enough to cause serious reflection mon the people There Thera can call of oC course be bo nu doubt that the tho Joers ultimately must be bo subdued n d Hut if victory can bu bought only at nt tho cost of extermination tion of or the tho entire people p ople Including wo women men and children the tho question must ha ht considered r d whether a L civilized ana aM Christian nation nallon can enn to pay that price Tho was wa commenced the Interests of or civilization hu human hUman man rights It should be bu conducted with those Interests In view and shortened whenever It U Is evident that enough blood hag Ms been shed |
