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CAUSES OF IJOKK WAK.
Klfjht of Trial by Jury Innlnteil Upon Kx-
tortionatu Taxation and Slavery
Opposed.
The following statement from a
Presbyterian paper published in Chicago ,
sums up with commendable brevity and
accuracy the points at issue in the South
African war :
"Six principal points nre involved in
the arbitrament precipitated by the
formal declaration of war by the Boer
government. They are :
First Taxation without representa
tion. The British government demanded
for British subjects that they be rectified.
This was what was meant by the diplo
matic controversy over the "franchise. "
The Boers finally made the concession
that five years of residence and the oath
of allegiance to the Boer republic should
entitle an outlander to vote. But this
concession was placed under limitations
which practically nullified it. It was
not an honest offer. The imperial
government demanded a five year limit
to political incompetency , and that the
ballot should not be subjected to any
nullifying conditions. This the Boors
refused , unless the imperial government
should renounce suzerainty. The latter
refused to discuss that question and the
Boers then withdrew the offer.
Second Trial by jury. British sub
jects are allowed a trial by a jury of
their peers , and under the laws of all
English-speaking people. A British
subject under the Boer oligarchy must
be tried by a jury of Boers.
Third Education. In the public
schools the English language is not al
lowed. As the population of Johannes
burg is twenty English to one Boer , this
was a virtual exclusion of English
children from the schools. The im
perial government demanded , on behalf
of British subjects , that the two lan
guages should stand on an equalitv
English speakers to have the same
benefits as those exclusively given to the
Dutch. This was refused.
Fdurth Municipal government.
There are only about 1,000 Boers in Jo
hannesburg to 23,000 outlanders. The
Boer government clung to its exclusive
right to govern the English city without
the consent of the governed.
Fifth Extortionate taxation. Before
the English discovered and developed
the Kiinberly and Witwaterstand mines
the total income of the Boer govern
ment was about $6,000,000. It is now
four times that amount , or a levy upon
the outlanders of $19,000,000 per annum ,
in the expenditures of which the tax
payers are allowed no voice.
Sixth Slavery. Though this does not
appear in the diplomatic discussion , it
has affected the sentiments of British
subjects towards the Boers. The natives
are practically enslaved by them. They
call it 'apprenticeship , ' but native youth
are held to work and labor diiring the
most effective period of their lives ,
namely till the age of twenty-eight.
After that age they are held to service
by terrorism in many , if not most , in
stances. This is highly repugnant to
the British constitution , whose glory
has long been that no slaves can tread
on British soil. The earth emancipates
him the instant he stands upon it.
These are the issues upon which the
Transvaal and the Orange Free State
have thrown down the gauge of battle.
The contention was not over the right
of the Boers to self-government. That
the imperial government has never
questioned nor made any attempt to
circumscribe. The demand of the
English is that Englishmen within the
limits of the British empire shall have
equal enjoyment of that right with all
others. If that had been conceded , the
imperial government would have left
the people of the Transvaal to settle all
matters of domestic concern to suit
themselves. "
What is the difference between an old
fashioned Pennsylvania Quaker and a
modern Pennsylvania Quay-cur ? The
former was devoted to peace : the latter
to pieces.
State-made farmers
EXPENSIVE.Statemade
EXPENSIVE.
ers in Nebraska
coino very high. THE CONSERVATIVE
last week on page five proved that readymade -
made farmers , turned out by the Agri
cultural College and Experiment Station M
n
tion connected with the University at
Lincoln had cost eighty-four thousand
and five hundred dollars apiece up to
the year 1895. Up to that date agri
cultural education and investigation in
Nebraska had cost one million and forty
thousand dollars. Are the results equal
to the outlay ?
SHERIFF'S SALE.
In the Otoo County District Court , Second
Judicial District , Stnto of Nebraska.
George W. Cunningham against Joseph
Tempest , ct al.
By virtue of an Order of Sale in the above
entitled cause , issued out of and under the seal
of the District Court of the Second Judicial
District , in and for Otoo County Nebraska ,
I
and to mo directed and delivered ; I will offer
for sale , at public auction , for cash , to the
highest and best bidder , at the east front door
of the Court House , in Nebraska City , Otoo
County , Nebraska , on the 14th day of April ,
A. D. , 1000 , at 10 o'clock a. m , all the right ,
title and interest of the defendants in and to
the following described lands and tenements ,
to-wit : Lot number One (1) ( ) . in Block Eighty-
flvo (85) ( ) , in Qroggsport Addition to Nebraska
City , situated in Otoo County , Nebraska.
WILLIAM BHOWEH ,
Sheriff of otoe County , Nebraska.
Nebraska City , Neb. , March 18,1000.
Ar/VA L. TIMHLIN , Atty. for Plaintiff.
The Annual Statement
of
The Mutual Life
of New York
appears on the last page.
This is the largest Life Insurance Company
in the World.
It is purely mutual and all its accumulations
belong to and are held for the benefit
of its policy-holders exclusively. . ,
Its assets are over Three Hundred and One
millions of dollars , and it has over One
Thousand Millions of Dollars of
insurance in force.
FLEMING BROS. , Managers ,
For Iowa and Nebraska. Des Moines , Iowa.
