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Show PEACE AT LAST. IH The terms of peace have been agreed fljl upon in South Africa. The superb endur- HI ence, the magnificent valor, the untold HI suffering and sacrifices of the Boers Hl availed them nothing except to secure UB for them a fairer settlement than they I would otherwise have obtained. They BH made a grand fight but it was clear fll enough from the first that they would be flB overborne. fiB The war was much prolonged because BH of the false hopes which theBoerswereled HI to entertain by the mostly simulated 8H sympathy of those who cared nothing for HH the Boer but who hated England, and by B those in this country who hoped by fiB championing the cause of the Boers to jBfl win partisan advantages by cheap dem- IB agogue mouthings of extreme love of lib- HH erty and sympathy for the weak and HH struggling. It was cruel to thus excite HH false hopes for it was certain from thefirst BS that it was a war which Great Britain HHB must win or admit herself a power so inflfl weak that she would have been the Hi prey of the jealous powers around her. bH Indeed to have given up the fight would HH have been the beginning of the disintigra- B I tion of the British Empire. k The Boers who have suffered and died, Htt the women to whom the war's exactions fl ; HHbHBJI '( jbBbi ; , have brough unspeakable sorrows are en- f( .1 ' titled to the deep sympathy of a generous lf world. ; ; - jj So are the mothers, wives, sisters and I i sweethearts in Great Britain and the col- ; :' If onies who have lost dear ones in the H ' L i furious wars attritions. j.i But not much sympathy is due Paul J ffr Kruger or his immediate associates, be-H be-H j j i, cause he really stood direct ly in the path, r j- an insurmountable obstacle to progress in f South Africa. To call the government he ! r carried on there a Republic was a grotes- '-' que misnomer. Oom Paul was an abso-H abso-H I lute, psalm singing despot, more he was I i I ; willing to strike at the yej.y foundations H -' lp of free government by prostituting his I ; , own courts and seeking to subdue the ' i' judges whom he had given office to his ! will, regardless of their official oaths. j t .. So soon as the war grew sore he gather- f j ed together the immense spoils which he Hjj had accumulated through broken con- !ji tracts and extortionate levies, and which ; ! was public property, and sought a dom- ( icile in Europe, all the time insisting that - f, his people whom he had closer ted should I A , i keep up the war. They should have sued H-' for peace the day he sailed away, for it j : I ought to have been claer i o them that he H't; i knew the fight was hopeless. jL f As it is the result breaks the inertia of J" i & century. There will be British rule in South Africa, such as exists in the Do- I I minion and Australia. It will be prac-H prac-H 1 tically self government, only to the Em- ? ' ' pire there will be nominal allegiance it given, the Governor General will be En- & J glish. I itr But every man will be free to do any D i 1f legitimate thing, the laws "will be a shield j ' for all citizens and strangers, slavery will H j be abolished; progress will take up its , 4 march; the work will soon commence to -'if extend the railroads north to meet the n -I one coming south, and it will not be long i , until Cairo and the Cape will be untied j ; I by steel, and the redemption of Africa j ,; will commence in earnest. m ' ill |