SOUTH AFRICA.
AN AUSTRALIAN'S STRONG APPEAL. PEACE OF THE WORLD IN YOLVED.
PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT Received 9.42 p.m,, July 30. London, July 30. Mr B. R. Wisp, ia a letter to the Times, appeals to the House of Commons to consider the constitution of the Transvaal and Orangia as affecting the whole Empire. Every year Canada, Australia, and Sauth Africa were drawing nearer together and more mutually dependent, and the dream of closer union had already fired the imagination of their people?; but the obvious oondition of any po'itioal union ia similarly of civilisation acd sympa'hy in their political ideals. There would be no such timilariiy between the progressiva democracies of Australia aod Canada and the narrow-minded predicants, unread farmers who, if the Transvaal were handed back to the Dutch, will within five years rule in South Africa. If we believe British rule more conducive to personal froedom and social just'c? than any other nation’s, it would be a c ime against the Empire and humanity to hand the government to a raco so undeveloped a 3 the Boers. It Bhould bo remembered that such liberal statesmen as Lord Durham and tho first Lord ElgiD, in giving Canada self-government, made British supremacy a paramount consideration. Received 9.50 p m , July 30.
Mr Wise, continuing, said that the Boer, like the French Canadian, can become loyal and British. The transformation requires time, patience, and administration according to the spirit, instead of tho letter of the Liberal deeirine that geographically South Africa is the keystone of the Imperial arch. Never since the stamp duty, which lost us America, have proposals been submitted to Parliament more fraught with daDger to the fabric of our union than those relating to the constitution of the Transvaal and Orangia. The peace of the world depends on Parlia meni’s decision. The Times describes the letter as striking and significant, and emphasising the narrowness of the margin wherein vital issues hang.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1822, 31 July 1906, Page 2
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