SOUTH AFRICA TO RIVAL AMERICA.

Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue LXIV, 13 September 1902, Page 5 (Supplement)

SOUTH AFRICA TO RIVAL AMERICA.

In a leading article on 21t>b July, the Evening Sun says what a good many wideawake Americans have (according to The Times' correspondent) been saying privately for some time past, but what no paper hitherto has had the courage to print. In future, declares tho Evening Sun, "if peace provtuls in South Africa and { tho British and Dutch join hands to develop the country, it will be an agricultural and industrial rival of the United States. It behoves us to bear this in miud, and to understand that England controls the apparently illimitable natural weafth of tne greater part of Africa below the Equator. The Transvaal and Rhodesia . . . havo room for millions of settlers and workers. The area available for the cultivation of grain and for raising live stock is equal to many of our western prairie States, and it is virgin soil. . . A dream of Cecil Rhqdes's was the development of South Africa until it should become a greater Kmpiro than the United States. Some day, and that not very remote, perhaps, it may bo realised. England will not then be dependent on tho United States for the necessaries of life, South Africa w^ill supply them. It was worth fighting a long and ccmtly, -War for, and the men at the helm of affairs understood what they were about."