Show TRANSVAAL GOLD more to be mined than now in the world so says chief becker of the U S geological survey will want to demonetize gold now washington oca 16 there is more gold in the transvaal field ready to be mined than tho amount now in use throughout the world according togao F becker the chiet expert of the united states regards precious als who has recently returned from active investigations were in progress at the time of hammonds 8 trial most of the americans including Hammond bad formerly been assistants or pupils of dr 1 decker and in a great measure his cablegram to secretary ainey insured impartial trials to our citizens dr becker declares that the primary cafeo of the trouble in the transvaal was the lack of between the extremely commercial industrial foreigners or Uit landera and the boers the boers had made repeated and extraordinary struggles tor freedom from english rule and regarded the influx ot english to johannesburg as a new and insidious form of aggression their distrust of the english was excusable only on hie grounds ThoEng lieb ho said aad not pursued a police of deliberate oppression i south africa but they had made many blunders 1 with effect had as if their motive had been evil gold production on tho rand dr becker saya began in 1887 since then the town of johannesburg haa grown up with whites and as many colored inhabitant according to a census in july the number of boers in the transvaal la probably only about eoula the laws of the country did not contemplate a large industrial du town and the boera have been alow to adjust their ideas to the o 0 a community they dare not give the Uit landers the franchise and their administration of johannesburg has been extremely giving rise to a tong list of real erie on the part of the Uit landers the grievances however affect the capitalist far more than the other foreigners who really have tittle to camplain of bince they are much off than in any other mining community in the world the reform era laid no plot against the independence oi the republic their idea being to frighten the administration into redress of grievance or at most to substitute forcibly a more liberal administration for the present one jamesine Jame sone announcement that ho would raise the british flag was mode only abtey be had crossed the border in contravention of an explicit a with the leaders it tame as a brexl shock to the reformers and mond the only american among the leader immediately demanded and obtained an oath of allegiance to the transvaal flag from sit me tubers of the rethro committee mad lie failed to tak this step the punishment subsequently awarded the reformer would have more savere there were seven americana Am erieana among the reformers but none of them was in the lightest degree in any attempt to overthrow the republic thy tool their punishment like american men and have done nothing to forfeit the respect of their countrymen caiet now reigns in the transvaal and dr berker believes that the reforms demanded by a sense ol 01 justice will be granted though llie franchise will be wilthel 1 tue effect of the disturbances however baa been to draw together the boers south africa and to accent aate race feeling |