What the Pro-Boers Want.

Manawatu Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 7276, 28 August 1901, Page 4

What the Pro-Boers Want.

.Mr W. TV Stead has at last explained with entire distinctness the policy he advocates with regard 10 the war. He says .—" I have from the first believed, and pulicly asserted, that the only honourable, courageous, straightforward way was for the nation to eject the present Ministry, impeach the author of the war, send a mission to President Kruger, admitting that we were in the wrong, and offering to make such reparation as was possible for the injury which we had done him and his country when we rejceted his oftrepeated appeal for reference of the ! dispute to arbitration, and led him to launch the ultimatum demanding arbitration or amicable settlement, in terms which precipitated the war. But, that is a price which the majority of the Liberals shrank from paying, believing that it would be too high." Whether such an abject j climb-down will commend itself to I those loyal Britons in New Zealand, as well as in Great Britain, who have made such heavy sacrifices for the cause which Mr Stead calls on them to abandon as hopelessly wrong and bad, it is not difficult to guess, i But it is well to know what the proi Boars really do mean. And now Mr ' Stead has told us.