Show DUTCH 11 T IN 1 1 P 26 language problem will be solved by immigration high dutch la Is the one ona used in writ ing by preachers Prea chera and parliament amen darlana but has no popular ity with the people london tho the boars baars hire hara always been one of the most conservative of people good colonists they bullied and enslaved the natives with ruthless harshness and then at the mhd approach ot of the tha british rather than mix with them they sullenly trekked backward into the hinterland it Is this thia dourness which now nov that th the two nations are inevitably and undeniably deni ably joint proprietors of th the a coun T ft parish patriotism of the tha hertzog school stands strongly against the supremacy ot of the english language langu language aFe la la british south africa dotha botha Is a far seeing and a tolerant man while lie he speaks dutch in par lial nent and in elections he can and does docs speak fluently la in the english tongue and Is never averse to carry on a conversation through that medium hertzog hartzog on tha contrary never loses an opportunity to stir up enthusiasm thusia sm for the dutch tongue all official documents likewise all menu cards carda and programs are printed in both languages but the general infinitely prefers a document written in bad dutch than one penned in perfect english it Is among the back veld or the old tanning farming classes of the plains that the dutch language holds bolds ahlet sway away and it 1 Is there that hertzog la Is most in favor in the big towns english has a clear preponderance and Britis hers in johannesburg would repudiate with scorn acorn the that the dutch language was wag advancing toward supremacy while it has to noted that tho the dutch spoken among tho the lower classes is not the written language the language ot of church and state but what is in called natal a sort cort of corruption it must be remembered us ua a significant pact that while th tee top dressing of society adheres proudly to the english language the tha backbone la Is every whit as enthusiastic and in more dogged fashion for the dutch high dutch to Is the written language the preachers language the parliamentary language but it has no popularity whatsoever among the people in school british children are now being taught ft r serviceable mixture of high and low one generation may speak ons ona tongue the nei next t both find and the next again will be able to converse only in one you will meet among the government officials a mr maccallum MacCa lhnn obviously ot of scottish descent do scent and even suggesting it in his bit physiognomy who will converse con vorse pleasantly with you in dutch but soon become confused and fuddled cuddled if you gret mm him in english then again there to la the phenomenon of mr air davies say who will speak dutch to a boer even eveir although he Is perfectly well aware that tho the boar speak english this may be b complimentary to ta the english tongue I 1 but it la Is scarcely likely to prove ea BO ervi serviceable ceable to it as aa ger ral hartzoge Hart HaTtZ fervid admiration for dutch top ant hat tongue it la is well abil known lc fr that T hat contempt the kaffits are ara held by doers coers and brit ish tt 11 ii a matter manor which ambrose pratt emphases s tery ery strongly in bid recent work val on tb tho real south africa and here there Is another cant fact act to bi be noted english la Is never naver spoken to the Naf kactro firs thero there Is a an interesting analogy to this thin problem piti Slem in our own ow n history when the ihn Noir mans conquered conQUe tho the S axons nail anti atti 4 to iff england tt it aito horn elected that the french and not tho the anglo saxon 41 would survive were e thoroughly conquered pd ground down the boers are certa aly not for their robla hood kept V tp national senti ment and nurses bivort distrust and hate not under thi greenwood greenwoo 4 tree but under the ot 0 government and their in no tens tena but came and vent went about the veldts teaching an empire rany lessons the saxons tt it Is true wire in a great majority but opposite those pensions paid to the doers even injured in the war wo we must write the harrying ot of yorkshire norman french at once became the language of church and tate state english we may say Is neither today in south africa again we see the backbone of society loyal to the votes voice ot of the land and the brilliant top dress dwenn ing rW malt staining ita ining enn the 1 of l feudal days of no board schools scho olai and with kith as big a gulf between conqueror and conquered almost as between white man and kaffir thero there could be little question of an advanced coalescence or of the bilingualism so eo alpar ent today in the educated strata etrata of south african society ty |