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Show Slavery In the Transvaal. A good many months ago the Aye Maria quoted the opinion of a missionary priest in South Africa as to one probable outcome of the Boer war the introduction into the country of Chinese labor. His predictions have been verified; and the recent action ac-tion of the British parliament in connection with the Transvaal coolie ordinance has evoked considerable consid-erable comment, both on the constructive slavery to which the ordinance in question gives countenance, counte-nance, and the home government's practical confession con-fession that the Boer war was not a struggle to create a white man's Africa, a3 was contended at the time, but a mere holding up of the hands of the gold mining syndicate. One provision of the ordinance mentioned above is that any person harboring har-boring a deserting Chinaman is to be treated and punished as a receiver of stolen goods. "If this." said ono of the debaters in London, "does not spell slavery, the difference between the condition and actual slavery is indistinguishable." England reaped but little, if any, glory from the actual suppression of the Boers; and her toleration of this new condition con-dition of affairs will assuredly add no new laurels to her wreath of renown. |