Washington County News | 1900-03-31 | Page 4 | Disfranchise Boers of South Africa

DISFRANCHISE BOERS. How the British Propose the Pacification of South Africa. It is said in London that the. plan likely to be adapted for the further pacification of South Africa, will be to disfranchise all rebels (colonial Dutch), Free Staters and Transvaal Boers found in arms, captured or accused of rebellion, re-bellion, thus throwing the two republics repub-lics and all the colonies into the hands of the English and the Rhodes syndicate. syndi-cate. This would break the power of the Afrikander bond in. Cape Colony, and at all other points. When the British army evacuates the conquered territory, terri-tory, the governing power would be with the English, and the only military mili-tary strength with the Rhodesian field force and the artillery promised by Cecil Rhodes for Kimberley, and the British garrison at Cape Town and Durbars, and, perhaps, at Pretoria.