As to the allegation that this was a cap-talists' war, Mr. Balfour sai Mark this—the critics toll us that we are making this war to please the owners of the South African goldfields. 'These owners, by the very fact that there is war, huve seen their property threatened, their' mines shut up for an indefinite period, and they have been told in language as plain as one of the greatest masters of plain language could speak =I mean the Chancellor of the Fxchequer—they have been told in perfectly plain language by him that when the war is concluded the mines, in common with other forms of Property in the Transvaal State, will undoubtedly be burdened with some of the charges connected with the war.
BOERS BEST ON WAR, It had been said that had negotiations been carried on with greater dexterity by the Go-yernment in general und by Mr. Chamberlain in particular, calamities of war would have been avoided, and all our legitimate desires could have been peacefully obtained. Tf you want (ssid Mr, Balfour) " plain and simple argument. which must appeal to all, I will give it you. It would have been' in the power of the South African Republic at any moment up to that fatal Wednesday when they declared war—it would have been in their power undoubtedly to checkmate English diplomacy, if: Eoglish diplomacy had for its object to provoke a war, by any measure which gave iminediaco and substantial repre. sentation to the Outlanders, and they could at the sume time have claimed if they had liked that we should guarantee their independence,
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