Oregon City Enterprise.
OL. 31. NO-'10-
OHEUON CITY, OltKQON, FRIDAY, SK1TEMIJER 29, 1899.
ESTABLISHED 1866
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TUB TJIANSVAAL.
Watery of Trouble J With Africa.
JEKKY MHPHOI HOOTED.
Tli Malm Tbat the inlanders Make
Against the Transvaal Fram-lilae
and Oilier (irlevanres.
Wiiat tejMj Says It Be So
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able rati'i a ran be had in the city. Prompt
and nrxtcial attention given to banquets.
My tunny friend and the general public are
cordially invited to stop and see me.
JACOD CASSELL, Manager, Oregon City, Oregon.
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We have a few 1899 Model High Grade
Imperial Wheels we will close out at
$25.00 rather than carry thera over.
Come and Examine Them.
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For Perfection
In Baking
Use Patent Flour Manu
factured by the Portland
Flouring Mills Company,
Oregon City. Or. All our
Flour is Ground From
Old Wheat.
IT IS WARRANTED
THE BEST. a a a a
VtUtn the climax of a prolonged In
ternational diaputo ia reached, as at
pitMUit between I'retoria and London, it
it well to recall the fundamental anpects
of the controversy. The heads of the
grievances of the Ulllanders, as set
f -rth in a petition four years ago to the
raad, may be thus reaUted:
Ural Exclusion Iroin the franchi
though the proortlon of Boer and Out-
lander taxes was aa 1 77,876 to 3,705,
CHI. The Transvaal is the in out heavily
taxed country In the world, its per
capita helng $H0. New York, with the
moat extravagant and vlcloas city gov
eminent ou earth, can show a per
capita of only t,'J0 municipal, $7
national and 2 state. In March, WJH,
a uVhate in the yolkaraad brought out
the fact that the Kroger government
had In 15 years "advanced" out of these
tas-t2.30'i,600 10a 8 J ($12,000,000) to
ita own members, ail of which was unac
counted (or. -
Hecond Exrfuiion of the Knglinb
language from the schools, for the sup
port of which English-speaking people
pay 1. 0OO.OU0 annually.
Thlrd-l'ractical withdrawal of the
rlgbt of trial by jury, the panel lor the
trial of Oullandcra being invariably com
posed of liocre. Huppreaers being in
variably compoeed of i'.oera, Suppres
sion of right of aaaemhlage, and aocb in
equality ol the aduiiniatration of justice
aa the holding of an Outlander in X1000
bail for orgamxing a public meeting, and
a Boer in PXK) for murder.
Fourth Extortions, of which the dy
namite monoply was the worst, but
w hich extended to nearly every branch
of trade, the beneficiaries being mainly
Dutch capitalists.
There was a score of minor grievances
In the petition, all of which were re
jected by the raad. All the right with
drawn, as above, had argually belonged
to all residents of the Transvaal, settlers
other than Dutch being confirmed in
them by the original aeieement between
Sir Evelyn Wood and Mr. Kroger in
1881. All Dad been taken from the new
comers when the discoyery of gold at
tracted great numbers to the country.
These gold-seekers were, by the way,
officially Invited to "develop the mineral
resource of the country" by the Trans
vaal agent in London, whatever may
have been the private Boer aversion to
their coming, The country was bank
rupt, the Boers having set up a semi-independent
state without having means
to carry it on.
Sovereignty as to the external affairs
of the South African republic was con
ceded by the Dutch to Great Britain in
18M ; and this is on a basis for British In
terposition to tliiQ remedy for the gross
InjiiHtice with which British subjects are
treated by the Boers. A sovereign that
can't protect Ita own subjects against In
justice so extreme, is but a poor thing.
The entanglement is, in some of its feat
urea, perhaps w ithout a precedent in his
tory. The English demand citixenship
as a means of protecting themselves, and
some two yeara ago they addressed a pe
tition to the British crown, which was
forwarded to the home government by
Sir Alfred Milner, British high commis
sioner for South Africa, on March 28,
181)8, w ith this comment in the course of
a long dispatch :
The true remedy is to strike at the
root of all these injuries the political
impotence of the injured. What diplo
matic protests will never accomplish, a
(air measure of Uitlander representation
would gradually but surely bring about.
It seems a paradox, but it in true, that
the only eflective way of protecting our
subjects,
At bottom the difficulty is conflict of
systems and racial contention. The
Boers,lt is said .are struggling for liberty,
and that is true ; but the liberty they
are struggling for is the liberty to main
tain a mediaeval oligarchy at the ex
pen He of three times their number.
One may sympathise with them in their
hopeless struggle against the modern
world that is closing upon them, even
while maintaining that the time has
come for thorn to bow or be bent to its
will. They stand and have stood for
many years in the path of justice and
progress, and must now be rolled out of
the way. .
The racial contest, this conflict of the
old with the new, explains why the
Orange Free State joins fortunes with
the TranBvaal. This is why the Afrik
ander bund, of Cape Colony, did the
same until the Boers showed that they
preferred, war to Outlauder equality.
The risk to British supremacy, in the
subjugation of the Outlanders has not
been better expressed than by Hir Alfred
Milner In this ssme dispatch :
The spectacle of thouaandt of British
nhJacU kept permanently In the post
tlon of helots, constantly chafing under
undoubted grievances, and calling vainly
to her majesty's government for redress,
does steadily undermine the Influence
and reputation of Great Britain, and the
respect for the British government with
in the qo win's dominions. A certain
section of the press, not In the Trsnsvaal
onlv, preaches openly and constantly
the doctrine of a republic embracing all
South Africa, and supports It by menac
ing referencea to the armaments of the
Transvaal, i'a alliance with the Orange
Free Htate and the active sympathy
which In cae of war it wou'd receive
from a section of Iter majesty's subjects.
I regret to say that tbia doctrine, sup
ported ss it Is by a ceaaeluaa stream of
malignant lies about the intentions of
the British government, is producing a
great effect upon a large number of our
Dutch fellow-colonists. Language ia
frequently used which seems to imply
tbst the Dutch have some superior right
even in this colony (the cape) to their
fellow-citixens of British birth. Thou
sands of men, peaceably disposed, and,
if left alone, perfectly satisfied with
their position as British subjects, are be
ing drawn Into disaffection, and there is
a corresponding exasperation on the side
of the British. I can see nothing which
will put a stnp to this mischievous pro
paganda, but some striking proof of the
intention of her majeety's government
not to be ousted fiom its position in
Sooth Africa. And the beat proof alike
Is that as late as the first of lat June tl
Transvaal could have avoided not merely
the threat of war, but farther diplo
matic pressure, by according to the ma
jority In wealth, Intelligence and even
number of its residents the same right
which the United States freely grants to
every forlorn waif of alieo humanity
that misfortune casts npon Its shores.
Greet Britain has waited for the Boera
to reform with a patience and sell-con
trol that should be a final answer to
those wbosappoM that her Transvaal
policy Is only another Instance of "land-
grabbing." It Is only now, when their
persistent obstinacy In the neighboring;
colonies, that she baa resolved to nas
force if the final preseare of diplomacy
proves on-availing. The task ia not on
to be lightly undertaken.
A war with the Transvaal, even if it
spread no further, will be the moat diffi
cult business Great Britain has bad on
hand since the dsys ol the Crimea, II
extends to Cape Colony and th
Orange Free State, aa it easily might, it
will mean such a contest as England has
not been engaged in since the Napoleonic
wars. Nothing bat an unwilling con
sciousness of its imperial necessity could,
force her into it.
HOOTED OFF THE FLATFOBX.
Imrrj Slupsoa'a Praia ct A(olDaI4
Waa Tao Math for His Haarars.
Kaksas City, Sept., 22 A dispatch to
the Journal from Wichita, Kan., says:
Ex-Congressman Jerry Simpson waa
hooted off the Dlatform bera this eveninv
of its power and its Justice would be to wbiIe ddresinga local G. A. R. re-
obtain for the Litlanders in theTians.
vaal a fair share in the government of
the country, which owes everything to
their exertions.
In brief, Britain has to secure justl e
lor the Outlanders or see the slow de
velopment of a predominantly Dutch
and Geiman Kruger and Schreiner
both being of the latter extraction
United States of South Africa. She has
to show whether she is really an empire
or a big trading company, with a home
ofhV-e in Downing street end branches 'n
commercial settlements in all quarters
of the world, which take the law fiom
whatever potentate, Boer or barbarian,
onder whoee away they chance to falL
For over a year President Kroger kept
the commissioners atarms'a length, the
condition of the Outlanders, meantime
growing worse through such persecutions
as the bieakiug op of their authorised
meetings by mobs led by Boer police
officers. At length, on Jnne 1 of this
year President Steyn, of the Orange Free
State, and Mr. Hofmeyr, of the Afrikan
der bund, who dreaded the results of
further postponement of a settlement,
persuaded Mr. Kruger to meet Sir Alfred
Milner at the capital of the Orange Free
State. There the British proposals on
tli Outlanders' behalf were formulated
as follows: j
That the full franchise should be given
to every foreigner who (s) had been resi
dent for five years In the republic ; (b)
declared bis intention to reside perma
nently ;(c) took an oath to obey the laws
undertake ail obligations of citixenship,
and defend Independence of country ; j
franchise to be confined to persons of
good character, possessing a certain
amount of property or income; finally,
some increase ot seats in districts where
the Outlanders principally reside; the
number of these was a matter tor discus
sion, but it was essential that they
should not be so few aa to leave the rep
resentatives of the new constituencies in
a contemptible minority.
If these terms, which are practically
the American requirements for citixen
ship, are accepted, the British represen
tative pledged his government not to
press for the redress of specific griev
ances, lie was follow ins his policy.
previously announced in his dispatch of
the year before, to strike at the root of
the grievances by giving the Outlanders
power to redress them. President
Kruger rejected the proposals as tanta
mount to handing his country over to
foreigners." Thereby, it iB to be noted,
he lett the way open for those British
demands for specific redresses which Mr.
Chamberlain has since touched upon.
The conference broke up after three days
of haggling, and the exchange of notes
containing new proposals began and has
continued to the present time. Through
it all the purpose of President Krnger
has been avowedly to redress the griev
ances of the Outlanders only on condi
tion the renunciation of suseruinty by
the British government. It was on
this point that the Afrikander bund left
hint. The latest complication in the
case has resulted from the fact tbat.
dropping for the nonce the suzerainty
question, President Kruger, who had
consented to a fiye-year franchise, sud
denly elongated the requirement by two
years.
These are the main facts of the case,
derived from the official records. Juilir
ment is to be pronounced from them
more safely than from the mangled
fragments of diplomatic correspondence
which the cable brings daily. The most
striking conclusion which they compel
union. Mr. Simpson said:
"I glory in the spank of Aguinald's
men. They are simply fighting to re
gain thf land the Catholics took from
them. A local paper bas asked: 'Who
is John Brown's soul marching with
Otis or Aguinaldo? I believe John
Brown's soul Is marching with Aguin
aldo." Mr. Simpeoo said in snhs'anre that ba
would rather be with Aguinaldo than
with General Otis. An old soldier in that
audience rose and said tbat the speech
waa uniting into pontics. This waa ap
plauded and greeted with cries of "throw
biraout" and "Kick Simpson off the
platform 1 Men and women arose and
hissed, and the men kept crying, "Pnt
bimoutr
Simpson appealed to the crowd to ait
down. "I am coming to my peroration,"
he aaid, although be had been speaking
only 15 minutes. Cries came, 'Take
yon r peroration to Aguinaldo!"
Simpson attempted to go on, bnt so
one could hear him lu feet away. The
band struck np the "Star Spaneled Ban
ner," and Mr. Simpson left the platform.
Ilia retirement waa greeted with pro
longed cheers.
U. S. Department of Agriculture.
The following data, covering a period
of 27 years, nave been compiled from
the Weather Bureau records at Portland,
Oregon for the month of October, for
27 yeara.
TXMPXBATCSI.
Mean or normal temperature, 53 der.
The warmest month waa that of 1875,
with an average ot 50 deg.
The coldeet month waa that of 1803,
wtih an average of 50 deg.
The highest temperature was 83 deg.
on the 7th, 1891.
The lowest tempera tare was 31 deg.
on the 31. 1877 and 1895.
Average date on which first "killing"
frost occurred in autum, Nov. 26th.
Average date on which last "killing"
froet occurred in spring, April 11. ;
PB8CIPITATOK
(rain and melted snow)
Average for the month, 4.06 inches.
Average number of days with .01 of
an inch or more, 12.
The greatest monthly precipitation
was 11.53 inches in 1882.
The least monthly precipitation was a
trace inches in 1895.
The greatest amount of precipitation
recorded in any 24 consecutive hours was
2.93 inches on the 10th, 1882.
CLOUDS AND WIATUBR.
Average number of clear days 7;
partly cloudy days 10 ; cloudy days 14.
WIND. i
The prevailing winds were from the
south.
The highest velocity of the wind waa
42 miles southeast on the 23d, 1897.
Station at Portland, Oregon; date of
issue, September, 25, 1899.
B. 8. Paqui,
Forecast official.
For Young Men and Yonng rfomen.
There is nothing that will aronse the
ire of a young man or .woman so quick aa
to have inferior laundry work put off on
them. They may dress ever so well,
but if their shirt front or shirt waist ia
muBsy their neat appearance is spoiled.
The Troy laundry makes a specialty of
ladies' and gentlemen's fine work.
There can be no better work than is
done at the Trov. Leave your orders at
JohnBon's barber shop.