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Show The history of the Boer" war soon to be published, and which was briefly reviewed re-viewed In our present and last. issue, will give a lucid description of the war Itself and the cause that led up to it. The cause of all wars has been always al-ways and everywhere the same, wounded pride, ambition and greed. A nation1 relying onits " jbwer and using its strength to attain its object, whether wheth-er good or bad. is lauded by the age. The Boers were simple-minded, honest. God-fearing people, who were the first colonists in Cape Town. When their labors made the "wilderness bloom like the rose," they were driven beyond the confines of civilization. Might is right, was the motto always used against the sturdy Dutch. A second settlement founded by them was confiscated and distributed as spoils of war. A third venture mde by these was to go into the wilderness beyond the Vaal river,, where thy hoped for peace. The discovery dis-covery of gold in their new home meant the necessity of a new government and I a new order of civilization. The Boers old-fashioned morality, which required justice, was to the Intruder simple cant a mere sham. Where might exists either in individuals or nations, and God's laws and eternaljustice are ignored ig-nored there is no compromise. The Boers, struggling with fate and holding hold-ing fast to their inalienable rights in the midst of the sorest trials, were forced to yield to numerical strength. Their long struggle is worthy of admiration. ad-miration. Yet we are told by writers whose watchwords are equality and liberty, that because unsuccessful they were" wrong. Lost causes are always bad causes, the unfortunate' deserve their fate. |
