Show M rl r 2 E j tl 4 OF BLACKS WHAT 9 J ri w h h 18 Ju lust t L J folk tolk that the Ir a ur to I iJa re I and turmoil ot of war they 1 In the tho r who right hl lOr an humble d ht fl nl cau pm N ot of the 0 rte 0 yes I 1 a between floe and Tinton f rig IIi uJ tad looming up as AI a problem E J w h the situation especially thet h 1 the g to tl America Is I that t eS has haa had to struggle with Problem via 11 about he 8 earo the hi a k man Inns When hen Ii h government IU th Bon Boer slaves Ilave In Cape Col Coln In Iq i t the Ih seed leed of the present war n The Da Dyer MYer forgave war H and a great Breit body of them trat it r north where beN they UleY could treat nosed the blecka anY way they Tire Ue lie Ie 1 fairly well Tell It if he can be totally luv lase Well fed or a a luxury drunk with t two or three lusty wives to d alp hll work for tor him HIS PART IN TILE WAR WAn The black played by no means an unimportant part In causing this thle war just as he did In th the American Rebel lion Iron That I Is we dad It so It If we JO Bo back far enough enouch Into prImary cau causes It w was simply limply and because t laulIe Cape Colon Colony via Im Impoverished tram from wars with Ith the blacks blach that England war WAI able to send lend down one supported by bya a couple ot of dosen dOIn retainers cad that he ha hawal was wal able to rule with a high hand It Il Ila was a I score r of at abuses on the part ot of England that embittered the Dutch residents little lItlie by them themar bear ar the cost COlt of wars wara with the turing UP their constitution and aDd laws lawland and worse one on ones and nn stripped of 01 their clothing tied hand and toot foot laid on the round ground and beat bellI bellIen beaten en with Jambou until Uti II I their ftp h wa was litera literally II in n shreds bredl This was AI th the work of a D Doer tr While Mile It w was being dune done till wife stood b by laughing at their cries and when he kid aad hatched all she brou brought ht a kettle of boiling water ud and drenched the tle wretched girls with It from head hed to foot making them writhe with the torturE Cruelty t 11 not the only wrong for tor which the Doer will have bave to tn reckon Ht He balks balka IV every attempt to advance hi his servants morally or spiritually It If h r believes the they have bavE IOU souls II he never trip tries to reach ruch them but keeps l them O on a level with hi his animals lie HI declines to 10 permit the black to walk Ilk on the root foot footpath path that he himself un and h hr forces him to carry arry a pan pall and to 10 wr weer a large larre and nd unsightly badge tr If he ends him without this b badge he dr drags him oft off to 10 Jill Jell even veri tb though uch b he ana may bt pl hI when the earp carp rt rII e t hl his thick bout INot And viciously hint him in tb the stomach eleven times la In passing by cried and the swore al t them In your our hoer Boer Invariably aware tu In Ear then tbD beat at the bin n lh the head and face taff with bl him club until II the when 1 he dragged him oft off to 0 lull Jull All Iha saris are arl In the pay par of gamblers sharps harp and pro prostitutes pass and badge system II another An other Iniquity No Nn matter la In what In Intellectual pl plane a buck black man may St at he is II forced to carry calT u a pars giving his hiM description and ad to tn 11 wear II a num tiered hade badge on Ida 1111 annIt attn a bade issued by the same m od who NUM t lags for lor doll does I knew n a i roi school chool schoolmaster master leaching of r his hll own rare rale n near rho hJ Inadvertently came amt to m II without hI his pass pal lie was I aM It a man well known among Is I vet pt the hoer poll ponce descended In n hi hie HI s h of and demanded to I see his hi laM goes I liable to show It he was w salad and dragged pd nl to tut Jul of r hit own Another co a t nl negro had for years been a e far a arich rich ft ot of J h um hIli bore or h went away laway In the h b d out nut outto to look for tor nt I had ro lO badge bade and he to too Wit was tar 1 im imprisoned d and made ne a t 1 Ians line BAPTIST ItY However is r the Charles re recently r home from the ta found roun much to I say Oft on the u other h r IU ell or of the th question and he has hili among the Boers and the bis ks tar years Yean The blacks lie be tall saki ves I J ht heard rd again and again talt It d the hoer Hoerl fiendish h treatment fir of th nl In reality rIll II I they Iho show a cul to make which race la II the r one Man Many alII He are told or of Bier r cruelty to II the and some Qt pf them may ay b true but UI It would bt be utterly unfair to jU Judge le len rt n people b by the ee the south louth of 01 America H seen In some ome instances a absolute y among ell let me Int tell you oU that th Ih blad in n In America I Is se utterly above 1 th black man In Routh Ith Africa merely In u ot of chariot r r lie to alT afford rd nu n comparison You ruu m form I no J adequate l Idea ta or of Ih the II let I 1 fir it 4 de depravity i which I Is of the i black man mall In tile the Transvaal r big lust lut lutI and I nd Inhuman cruelty cruelly unless you OU call to mind mhd till the most revolting rimes corn com allied In your own south louth Youve Youe hurn burned d net negroes 11 at al the stake t there J 1 bt be belive live Yet no one accuses U the Ihl entire nUre race or of infamous cruelly The Doers never burned an any one at atthe the stake Ik I Fur or the liner tu to du do other otherwise wi wise than hI he does doel for him ar t trust the Kamr to attempt to make makl on equal ot of him would mean only It a repetition of the outrages ant and r cres of 01 which Hoer oer women and mt meet I have ban been oen the victims lone today Mud Much h ha been heen made lit f the tact fact that the refuses to allow the black blackman blackman man to walk alk on the same tOOl footpath path that lit he himself u uses being cited as al an Instance of 01 ter those who cite It cn can have no idea Idla ot of tb the number of 01 aims In the Transvaal Letting them walk on tile the common tot fot path would mean that women would have to slay tay In the reason being obvious Kindness is II wasted on the black To give he to him six Ix pence meals an n instant or of dignity on his hll part so much d dig dignity nit In tact fact that you wont be able abl to 10 let get any work ork out or of him for a wk welk Take the pus PIlI system another IOU or of attack on the Ibe Doer Boer pass pal which black man le II obliged to 10 carry U II eull easily and nd II has a definite par pur pose 1011 That pu I is to 10 keep a record ot of every fery with the name ot of hi his employer It I Is Issued once to In every tt th PI ee months and anel acts a as a cheek on the holder In the towns no black man manis is III allowed out after g at night and this rule Is II a safeguard purely anti and simply limply Were It repeated would be the lt Curtis Drown ro n staff correspondent ot of the New NewYork York Press PreMo U of theIr cruelty to the na tIt II whom they thu Indentured ere a particular source ot of Irrl the Doers The blacks black blackk tr k r the white In th the Trans TranI al and it Ii to Is just becoming apparent t and statesmen here Iset t al the n le II not how shall we weI I v tie II Boer but How shall we mr more humane to th the black without t auto trouble Tn re g tt t iI at Ih the true inwardness ot of this r I situation from all v t Ints 1 he have consulted Ave au auT T c an 11 fresh from the I 1 thu haw brought together a good goat a I about the South n f man t man talked hOlt cannot carMl be given for tor reel raa n or ha has rent the last hut five fin years 11 In alii and II fe rather Inclined to tor r with the hosts There are a great mall malty ways wal he her r 1 In a hr h with rd t ra the nit black blaek race In III the Trans TranI 1 that ot of the North at th H r the civil but there are u b H of y into or of too y 1 a sr e the blacks black who ho work for u n re r not slaves lit at all RII al a seems m t t to h 1 a belief bellet but are simply rn Ming kine for tor low lowa a r I 1 rant grant you ou Most MOlt 0 of them are l b r i h by 1 their employers just u AI we I hire litre nath anti end 1 the rest rat are Indentured f r a ll gain number ot of years ear a as the Molt It r various native uprisings 11 rn I I r these theM revolts Occurs sad and I I r i h ked the custom Is II to h 1 ell 1 1 of r the blacks who took a ti I n it that Is II to remove them to toI I I r Jart of and In or con to any or con conr r II h has need nud them Thu i n an r kog slaves davee of them b by any Ira r ar f r th the term ot of Indenture never Is to a II live 1 and they receive ve 1 acs p I II ua It the they were employed I 1 Il tl I 11 way The They In huts er el h I allowed to bring brIne has hll family I t i 1 hui teed It this Is fath rather r e 1 t r It means meane just so 0 man many more He n 11 the 1111 laI LiKE OUR In r r I raring their treatment how g II i th tt tines hOle t of the ilia slaves In your Our hUL uI mu must t the different been r 1 the Ihl IWO races As AI far as Ive n 1 to ta read your black II and alII a at I ant nl enough eort ot of man but bur eo n that would he be flattery If said ut I blacks Mak In the Transvaal hy r 1 good deal r rough mast nl nt last hi r much hl I nearly n BI as they r for It would be pretty hard in en tr r a non Boer to give Ie the average K h n at as many dOl doses s ot of the Iho am t I r ItO it I a ord hell a trea PUI I f I ho needs fl a muter master J nil on him because he takes lakel y en us 1 a Ien of and If once onre OZ g C 1 t him the that n u h re T l Ir gre all your our authority le II r h he s r curs curN there may mar be cam 11 rr pr ants anti are treated WIth by some of 01 the more t In ne l lors but t 11 In general their rake the firm sort of hl I t I Iu absolutely necessary hilI do with r re 1 II he was j to do wl IUt hI r murt JUI what tit have rt what herself did In r f I obey indenture the greater r them and put the reel Into pa Hut But make sure lure that le I tb those thole tn or ort t ot white men 19 kH kHI f ng the I s to r the mark ThIS Kong i at ash yoU le r I him tt n I But ut re you rou n I t too much i I tty lows low In tle e of I his 1111 ambitions aren t lofty lott I I finally Instating that should hould bG be bethe the language In all government dealings and courts of law Actions like thOe paved the way Va but the tree free treeIng Ing ng of the Cape Colony slaves an and flu sequel WIll was the straw that broke brake the camels bark back It that the farm fann farmere ere era were unreasonably loath to give up their slaves It was wal that at first 1 a relm ot of that gradually simmered down to Scoto wu was prom I used to them end and then than this thle amount WI was made shadowy by the Uon that the mone money be drawn b by individuals Individual In London How on earth was tb the poor Doer farmer fanner to get to London Y Thy They said MId Weve had ad enough We Well II get out Then came CAllie the Great Or t Trek and families did get out STORIES OF CRUELTY The views of this informant however were not shared hared by f a Wesleyan clergy clergyman man Inan who bas baa been a missionary among Ike blacks black and who believes believe he knows the situation I thoroughly The Doers noer black h he said a as the Dar calls calli them but serfs serf to all practical 1 hate him and with It It reason At bl hie hands band th they y receive nothing but bal ill treatment treatment often unspeakable In It Its II bar barbarity I 1 know of a out case where two black young girls laving committed Porno lome petty vetty theft were out ot of the back door ot of his hta masters house Until a year ar or two ago he r re refused fused steadfastly to allow the black to now h he may any take a wife on only I afar aller having 11 10 to the nov gov tor lor the privilege Ot Of the TOO blacks In tM the the church or of the hoer Doer tl takes kea no account and makes no effort to convert or to aid OF TIlE DOERS DOER DOERSAn An officer In the Salvation Army with whom hom I talked also allO for tor a long loag time rill res dent Ident In the Transvaal said Ild III tiara Is Ie a CA vice ot of Doer Boor Inhumanity that I 1 myself witnessed I wu coming out or of the Salvation Army headquarters in ID Johannesburg when I lAW two Kaffir boys borl arguing with a nip p In the middle ot of the street Finally Finan the eon con took on one of them In charge slipping the leather thong at the pad end of ofhie hll hie dudgeon bludgeon around his hll wrist As AI they walked away the bol boy small emall cp cap tell rell oft off and h he turned and called to his ble chum to pick It up This enraged the big mu much h that b be drew his hll arm back and aad struck the boy 1 a terrible blow with ble that It Jut just under the ear The of course Instinctively drew back and all as ashe h he did so eo hlf hie wrist out of thE leather noose nOON The earp arP was waa frantic with rage rag lie struck the bo boy wen Iven a crone oree blow which felled ht t eom |