Truth A KINEMATOGRAPH REVOLUTION.

NZ Truth, Issue 74, 17 November 1906, Page 4

Truth

A KINEMATOGRAPH REVOLUTION.

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1906

The alleged Boer 'Rising" m Northern Cape Colony, rtfjiqt bed ,by cable last Monday, is viewed with contemptuows suspicion I>y all tliinldhg men, although out local morning "Times, ' billed it as "A Boer, Appeal to Arms. That, however, is what might be expected from our local - morning "Times," and with people of ordinary capacity for thought and deduction it Carries no weight. The Jingo multitude, however, are liable to -fee trapped by such a catch-penny gag, and to be led into 1 the erroneous belief that the Boers have risen m arms and organised a' revolution against British rule. Let the public bqware of being Bo misled. Ferreira's raid, With 'a small force, from German Africa into British territory, has no political significance, except m its unexposed aspect. That is doubtless significant enough— significant of political corruption. It is significant, for, instance, to note that, those who prenared the cablegrams were careful to impress the fact that that little bounder, Dr.- Jamieson, Rhodes's willing tool m that damnable "raid" that precipitated England into a horribly costly and ahameful war with the two Boer" republics, a War that ended m their extinction with dreadful slaughter and rapine, had left London on his return to the Cape "without knowing anything about; the raid." Me we to' believe that the Premier of the colony would be likely to be left m the dark on so vital a, matter, When the newfepd"«n*s had the news on that very day find the cables from London to New Zealand were dated Noy. 11, the Sunday following Jamieson's departure ? What fools these under.giou'ndengineerinß, nation-involving rogues m\ist think we are !

Four and a half years ago, a treaty, called the Treaty of Vereeninging, between Briton.. and Boer, Was signed, m Which it AVas .stipulated that the two Boer States should receive a constitution. It is well known how the Jingo Government shuffled to evade the terms of that, treaty and worked evei'v known trick to prevent its successors from fulfilling the obligations entered into by Britain at Vereeninging. As to the Orangia Constitution, it appears t-hafc it is still to be drafted and m this case the jingo, Jewdriven crowd are confronted by a greater difficulty than m the case of the Transvaal. * Tn Orangia there is no city with a large foreign population to be manipulated to outvote the Boers. These latter have confidence m the integrity ( of the present Imperial Government. They understand the difficulties the Liberal Party has to contend with, and are waiting patiently. Throughout the three Boer States they are thoroughly organised under political leaders of no mean capacity. Engineerine; paltry raids is no part of their programme. Their aim is to get the Constitutions m the Transvaal and Orangia into working order, and none would more readily recognise the folly of hampering progress m this direction by a sill£. futile appeal to arms, than these loyal and earnest Boers. The question, then, is, "What is hindering them ?" Reflection and a look around will reveal n. once power ful political party which had had a long lease of power, defeated and discredited. If we look m another country we see two States .that once enjoyed free government of

their own. now ruled by foreign officials ; and closer scrutiny will reveal a cosmopolitan gang of vampires appropriating; the known and potential wealth of these so recently free, hapny and well-governed States.

The inference is plain. It is. these, the discredited political party, the foreign officials and the cosmopolitan Vampires, who are obstructing the progress of these States m the path of advance towards peace and prosperity and good government, and it is they who are engineering bogus raids to create clouds of political dust m order to serve their own vile ends and obscure the clear vision of the electors-. The ends m view are :to cause confusion^ at the approaching elections m the Transvaal ; to hinder and delay the promulgation of the Orangia Constitution ; and to harass and embarrass the British Liberal Party. This is so very obvious that it seema almost supererogatory to call attention to it. It appeared extremely likely that at the election?, for the new Assembly, the Boers; with the aid of many Britons who very reasonably consider that earnest, singlehearted Boer candidates, who had the welfare of their country at heart, would make hotter legislators for .the 1 Q^h;;ral weal than a mob of tag-rag and bob-tail adventurers chained to the wheels of the chariot of vilely corrupt Capital ; would win a majority of seats. Naturally, the gang of (mostly) Jew Mammonites, who are squeezing the life-blood out of the rich Transvaal, trembled at the very thought, atid cast about for means to obviate such a catastrophe. So that it appears more than likely that this tin-pot raid of a marauding gang of offscourings of the Boer army, has been engineered by tools of the Capitalistic crowd, with the sole aim and object of rearousing the accursed racial rancor that was so diabolicalIv deftly played upon previous to and during the la<e cruel, shameful, and wholly . unjustifiable war, so that Britons should be incited, not only not to vote for Boers, but to work tooth and nail against them. Occurring as it has, j«st when that brilliant general and great man, Botha, has been so earnestly spreading the propaganda of brotheiiv love and mutual forbearance m the general interest:-, this kinematographic "revolution" bears an extremely malicious and malignant aspect;— not on account of what it is, but because of the devilish ingenuity by which it was almost certainly, propagated. . :