OPINION ON THE WAR.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7369, 22 January 1902, Page 4

OPINION ON THE WAR.

AN AUTHORITY SPEAKS.

Dr M. J. Farrolly, barrister, who before the outbreak of war was legal adviser to the Government of the Transvaal Republic* was the guest at dinner of the Scottish Conservative Club. Edinburgh. Dr. Fatrelly, responding to the toast of his health, said there were two alternatives presented as to the best way of making pence while maintaining the Empire, the one by Lord Kitchener, who rightly believed it was for the enemy in the field to propose terms of peace, and the other by Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman, who suggested that we should issue yet another proclamation and recall Lord Milner. The Boers in the field had appealed to the Lord of Hosts, and no other decree would they recognise. In these circumstances we had to establish our military authority. He was a I Liberal —he believed he jyas described as an advanced Radical — but he would not lift one finejer to put into power a Government dominated by such sentiments as those of Sir Henry Campboll-Banner-man. He had put it to his Uadical friends here, how was it they could not find a single Radical who had lived in the Transvaal who took any other than the Imperial side ? Were they all bribed by the helots of Park Lane, or were they all subdued by the magnetic personality of Lord Milner? As to the causes of the war, no more absurd calumny was ever issued than that Mr Chamberlain caused the war. It was the heritage of 100 years of vacillation and betrayal of our friends at every crisis Mr Chamberlain did nothing but speak the truth as he saw it, and stand to his guns when he was assailed.