that Greater Source of love and sympathy in which 'we live and move
and have our being.' Where this bond has been broken, we long for its
restoration; but it cannot but tend to retard this restoration, to
impute to one or other of the parties concerned motives that are
entirely foreign to its action. Peace, to be lasting, must stand on a
foundation of truth; and there is no truth whatever in the idea that the
English Government provoked the present war, or that it intended, at any
time during the negotiations that preceded the war, an attack on the
independence either of the Transvaal or of the Orange Free State. It is
true that President Kruger has for many years carefully propagated the
fear of such an attempt among the Dutch in South Africa, as a means of
separating Boers and Englishmen into two camps, and as an incentive to
their preparing the colossal armament that has now been brought into
play, not to keep the English out of the Transvaal, but to realise what
is called the Afrikander programme of a Dutch domination over the whole
of South Africa. Thus, he a short time ago imported from Europe 149,000
rifles--nearly five times as many as the whole military population of
the Transvaal--clearly with a view to arming the Cape Dutch in case of
the general rising he hoped for. The Jameson Raid gave him exactly the
grievance he wanted--to persuade these Cape Dutch that England sought to
crush the Transvaal.

"An examination of the 'Blue Book,' which contains the whole of the
correspondence immediately preceding the war, will at once show the
patient efforts put forth by the London Cabinet to maintain peace. There
are no irritating words used, and the last despatch of importance before
the outbreak of hostilities, dealing with the insinuations just alluded
to, is not only most courteous and conciliatory in tone, but it states
that the Queen's Government will give the most solemn guarantees against
any attack upon the independence of the Transvaal either by Great
Britain or the Colonies, or by any foreign power. I am absolutely
certain that no American reading that despatch would say that President
Kruger was justified in seizing the Netherlands Railway line within one
week after he had received it, and cutting the telegraph wires, to
prepare for the invasion of British territory, in which act of violence
lay his last and only hope of forcing England to fight; his last and
desperate chance of setting up a racial dominatio