"STOP THE WAR"!

P 79242

1901

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There are Members of Parliament and others who are shouting forth these words.

They ask that the War should at once be stopped; that the South African Republics should be granted complete independence; and that the British troops should be forthwith withdrawn.

The folly of carrying out such a policy scarcely needs proof. The country will indignantly reject it.

Every humane person wishes to see Peace established. Every sensible person knows now that such Peace can only be secured by the submission of the Boers. We have paid too dearly in blood and money to abandon the objects for which we have fought. We who are victorious cannot act as if we were beaten. The Boers must give way, and most of them are ready to do so. But a few desperate men are resolved to continue the War. Some of these have been educated in England, and know the state and power of our political parties well. They are familiar with times when the Radical Party was powerful and could control the National Policy. And so these Boers who are anxious to continue the War are relying upon

these sayings of the Radical Members. The Boers desirous of peace are told they must fight on until the Radical Party returns to office. The Stop the War" speeches are quoted as representing the policy of the British Liberals-and assuredly they give power and pretext to the Boers who are determined to continue their desperate war. Now who are they who have made these speeches? Who are they who have given great and direct encouragement to those Boers who are maintaining the useless struggle?

Has your Member been calling out to stop the War? Has he voted in condemnation of the policy of continuing it? Has he been giving this direct encouragement to the Queen's enemies? ANYONE WHO HAS DONE SO HAS PROLONGED THE WAR. Its prolongation means more of death and wounds more of losses to this country and to the Boers also.

Of all the men who have taken part in this War upon none has greater responsibility fallen than upon those who have lured the Boers by false hopes to maintain a hopeless contest. These men would have inflicted less injury upon this country if they had taken the field and fought against it. If they had done so they would have been punished by the law. In their present offence the penalty must be inflicted in the Polling Booth.

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THE AFRICANDER BOND.

It is alleged by some English M.P's and other friends of the Boers that Kruger WandK Steyn never had any idea of turning the English out

of South Africa, and destroying the 13 the English

Supremacy there.

TILON F

1901

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Read the following conclusive evidences that such was their intention. De Patriot, the Boer organ in Cape Colony, thus explains the meaning of the Africander Bond.

“ "The future Confederation of all the States and Colonies of. South Africa.... There is just one hindrance to Confederation, and that is the British Flag. Let them take that away, and within a year the Confederation under the free Africander flag will be established. The British . . . . must just have Simon's Bay as a naval and military station on the road to India, and give over all the rest of South Africa to the Africanders. . . . It is we on top, or they on top. They must be under or we under.. Buy nothing from any Englishman, nor even from anyone who advertises in an English newspaper.

"Two things are wanted: artillery for the Transvaal to make their own ammunition and to be well supplied with cannon. .. Now that the war against the English Government is over [at Majuba Hill, &c.], the war against the English language must begin. . By Anglifying

the girls they infect the whole family life with the English speech. The mad, unscriptural, house-corrupting notion that women are to have education in their hands, must be for ever banished out of our land," &c., &c.

In 1875 President Burgers stated at a meeting in Holland, on the Delagoa Bay Railway Scheme, that he hoped to see "a New Holland, eight millions strong, in South Africa, whence England shall have been expelled.”

Of President Reitz (since Secretary of State in the Transvaal) a Dutch burgher, T. Schreiner, writes in the Weekly Times, December 1st, 1899:

"I met Mr. Reitz, then a Judge of the Orange Free State, Bloemfontein, between 17 and 18 years ago, shortly after the retrocession of the Transvaal. Mr. Reitz did his best to get me to become a member of his Africander Bond; but after studying its constitution and programme I refused, whereupon the following colloquy in substance took place between us:

"Schreiner: I see quite clearly that the ultimate object aimed at is the overthrow of British power and the expulsion of the British Flag from South Africa.

"Reitz: Well, what if it is so?

"Schreiner: You don't suppose, do you, that the flag is going to disappear without a tremendous struggle and fight?

"Reitz: Well, I suppose not: but what of that?"

Of President Steyn, an Attorney-General of the Free State made the following statement to "the Rev. W. Tecs, Presbyterian Minister in Durban," of whose congregation he was a member. It is given in the Daily News of May 10th, 1900. "Great Britain," said the Attorney-General (who was delighted at the Boer successes in Natal), "has been completely taken by surprise. Sir, this has been preparing since 1884." "In both States?" "Yes, in both, and the Colony also. The Transvaal has been the arsenal, but those in the know (sic) in the Free State and the Colony have worked in unison with Kruger." "And the object was to oust the British from South Africa?" "Precisely, but it was not intended to do it all at once. The first step was the consolidation of the two Republics as a sovereign 'international State, and later on an Africander rising at the right moment.” "Then do you mean to say that when President Kruger attended the Bloemfontein Conference he knew perfectly well that the proceedings were a farce, and that he really meant to fight?" "Yes."

"And President Steyn's announcement that the Free State had never thought of war was made in the full knowledge that war had long been prepared for?" "Yes."

"But, Sir, that was almost blasphemous lying, for he called upon the name of God at the time he made the statement."

"Well, I suppose it was-diplomatic lying; diplomatic lying, you know.'

Speaking at Grahamstown in Cape Colony in 1885, Mr. Merriman, now a leader of the Africander Bond, said

"My quarrel with the Bond is that it stirs up race differences. The main object is to make the South African Republic the paramount power in South Africa. We see that some moderate men are in the power of an institution whose avowed object is to combat the British Government, namely the Africander Bond. It is now the cue of the Bond to pretend to be loyal, and if it were not painful it would be ridiculous to hear the editor of the Zuid Africander cheering the Queen while resolutions are passed round the branches in opposition to the honour of England. The question is whether you wish to remain an integral part of the British Empire. Do you want another flag here-a German flag or the flag of a United South Africa ?"

Speaking quite recently in the Cape Assembly, Mr. Zietsman, a loyal Africander, said that the Colonists must first have a guarantee for the proper punishment of the rebels.

"He asserted from personal knowledge that the aim of the Bond for the last 20 years had been the overthrow of British supremacy."

Here then is evidence showing the determination of the Bond to drive the British by the sword out of South Africa, and in the face of it, the so-called "Conciliation" party has circulated hundreds of thousands of tracts stating that no such evidence existed!

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Who Provoked the War?

THE NEW YORK
PUBLIC LIBRARY!

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Some people say that the Colonial Secretary provoked this war by the irritating tone of the despatches he sent to the Transvaal. If they wills examine "Blue Books" C 9521 (71d.) and 9530 (8d.), which can be had of any bookseller, they will see that this is not true. There is not a single sentence that is not courteous and forbearing and straightforward as ever was penned.

As a specimen, take the following despatch, which was the last of importance that was sent before Kruger abruptly stopped the negotiations and declared It is given in Blue Book C 9530, page 16:

war.

MR. CHAMBERLAIN TO HIGH COMMISSIONER
SIR ALFRED MILNER.

(Sent 10.15 p.m., September 22nd, 1899-Telegram).

"22nd September. No. 5. I have to acknowledge receipt of your telegram No. 4, 16th September, conveying reply of the Government of the South African Republic to note of British Agent conveying communication of Her Majesty's Government contained in my telegram to you of 8th September, No. 5. The offer then made by Her Majesty's Government was moderate and conciliatory, and they have to express their profound regret that reply of Government of the South African Republic is a refusal to accept it.

"Her Majesty's Government have on more than one occasion repeated their assurances that they have no desire to interfere in any way with independence of South African Republic, provided that the conditions on which it was granted are honourably observed in the spirit and in the letter, and they have offered as part of a general settlement to give a complete guarantee against any attack on that independence, either from within any part of the British dominions or from the territory of a foreign State.

"They have not asserted any rights of interference in the internal affairs of the Republic other than those which are derived from the Conventions between the two countries or which belong to every neighbouring Government (and especially to one which has a largely predominant interest in the adjacent territories) for the protection of its subjects and of its adjoining possessions. But they have been compelled by the action of Government of the South African Republic, who have in their note of 9th May, 1899, asserted the right of the Republic to be a Sovereign International State, absolutely to deny and repudiate this claim.