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Show Hj; J, THE BRITISH-BOER SETTLEMENT. fti! '' In a current magazine a writer tries to give a H'i' ; Pen picture of Lord Salisbury. It is not much of BBj, jl ; a success. What would please readers on this H (J"' side of the Atlantic better would be to read the Hi, ty ' true history of the causes that led up to the If J' ,: Anal offer of terms to the Boers. It is not so long Hvili ag0 thafc Lord SalisDUry insisted that nothing f l'i would be considered but unconditional surrender fifilj 1. on the part of the Boers. Hytij' But that at last was not demanded. Rather, H Ji V. the Boers pretty nearly dictated the terms on jLf. '! which they would give up fighting. They were to H'lj: have back theIr estates; they were to have enough i .-; i of British gold to rehabilitate their old homes and H: ;' !' re-stock their farms; all prisoners and fugitives H. if were to return, and though it was included that HI prosecutions should lie against certain offenders, If1 the wording indicates that the proviso was ac- H Jt cepted on the promise that the prosecutions would a t not be pressed. H4 J We suspect that it was Gen. Lord Kitchener Hk4;l who bent Lord Salisbury to his will, and that it fHflln was the General who determined not only to close jH,tj i ! tne war, but to close it in a way to make the W' I- Boers not only satisfied, but to awaken a hope in Ht -j their hearts that a change of governments would B y) i oe to their material advantage in every way. H j;' ; Whatever the facts may be, it is certain that KP !' there was a mighty surrender on the part of the 1!, i. British Premier, when the final settlement with 1 jt, 1 1 the Boer chiefs was made. There is nothing else my J like it in the one thousand years of British his-' HHl ! tory as a world power. 111 |