TRANSVAAL'S TRIBULA TION. BANE OF " BOODLERS."

NZ Truth, Issue 116, 7 September 1907, Page 6

TRANSVAAL'S TRIBULA TION. BANE OF " BOODLERS."

"Peruvians" Picking the Plains— Rich Rand Reef m the Hands of Mongrel Jews.

(By, Returned Australian.) 'A few years ago the streets of Great Britain and the British "Kawlinies" rang^out "ad nauseaih" with that terriule tedious refrain of "Soldiers of tbe Queen, my boys," and poor, misguided youngsters from all portions of the British Empire rushed to the iorefront to collar a rifle and shoot those nasty "Boahs" who were "oppressing" the downtrodden. Britishers m the Transvaal. Poor old Tommy Atkins was rung up from the four quarters of the earth m order to wipe out Oom Paul, and revenge the "insults" which • had been visited upon Hinglishmcn and upon the Hinglish flag. And Tommy went to his doom, and the Australians went •? TO THEIR DOOM, alongside the New Zealanders, South Africans, and Canadians, and they wiuccl out Oom Paul and his nasty; "Boahs." And then 'what happened ? Instead of the Promised Land of milk and honey, by all that's true aud right the Transvaal was converted into a veritable political and economic dunghill. That "Great Pro-Consul," as Milner's lickspittle toadies dubbed him. went to work and flooded the State with a lot of military stiffs whom the old pastoral Boer "Generals" had chased all over the country. '(I's not alluding now to those British Generals who nut up magnificent fights, very often under terribly adverse circumstances, but to the one-eyegl.-ss tribe who yawned infinitely.)

When the. "Boahs" were wiped out the yahoos who were, foolish cnousrh to rush over am', redress the "Uitlanders' grievances" • began looking round the street- corners of Johannesburg and Pretoria for the glorious industrial developments which were to ensue when De Wet and De la Rey and Oom Paul were sidetracked. But nary a boom, nary a drop of milk atid honey (with the exception of a temporary suluttcr necessary to start the industrial ball rolling again) and then THE: "PERUVIANS" (low-grade Jews from Poland and Russia) got their fine work m with a vengance. They crowded into all the avenues of industry, even into the Art Preservative of Arts" and the liquor trade, and the wretched Gentile began to wish the war had never been. The- lived on the smell of the proverbial oilrag, and were housed m nauscovs hovels, and their sartorial requisites wore a mere bagatelle financially. They scraped and scooped (and they are always a close corporation), and' how they have the show pretty well m their own hands directly or indirectly. They are absolutely and irredeemably clannish, and have the same suspicion of other races as if they were still m Russia. They have also been a CURSE TO THE RAND m illicit liquor trading with the natives, .who are thereto rendered a menace to all the white women along the Witswatersrand Reef. Yet these South Africar-. natives were, a docile and dependable race before the "Peruvians" soaked them with their

"lyddite," as the- designate fakedup spirits over yonder ; but now they're impudent and loudly-dressed very often, and .are becoming quite adepts at burglaries and crude confidence tricks. And the new "bobbies" believe their yarns very often with a simplicity that is "childlike and bland." And you can bet your sweet life that Mr Bobby will take a nigger's word before the paleface's. The "Zarp," or Boer- policemnn. was a horse of another color, and understood Mr Kaffir and. all his wiles thoroughly, and woe betide the sable gentleman who tried to impose on his credulity. But you ought to see the Johannesburg kitchen boy (they always call him "boy," even though he be ninety) to the present day. He's gotten up m the most approved Darlctown regalia, and comes vout on the Market Square m "Joeburg" m his thousands on Sundays to hear the. Kaffir prelates holding forth to his "brers." And so hath the "civilisation." of our "kullered" brother progressed under British rule. IN THE MINES the strenuousness o? the " position is being also keenly felt. A few years ago a man, even though not a crack hand at mining, could pick up a job, or, at the worst, could get a meal or two to helo .him along the road-; but not now. Ikona. (a Kaffir word, signifying no, or a general negative). Those good old days are relics of the past. It's a hard matter now, comparatively, for a tramp to get a bit of "scauf" (food) along the reef. The thing has beer, overdone.

- it may be asked, "What is the remedy ?" And perhaps one may not be too glib m answering ; but this much may be said ' The Rand is easily capable of supporting the Comparatively meagre white population resident thereon, and should do so if it were not for the rotten muddling of a 'ot of noodles appointed by the Great and Only Milner. When one thinks of a fairly good grazing country, medium m produce m many places, and 40 miles of a gold reef, besides diamonds, it makes one tired to see a handful of white people being compelled to evacuate the country and leave it to the "Peruvians" and the Kaffirs and the Chows. But that's Bowning-street all over—always has been, and always will be. and the proscnt and first Transvaal Legislature has a fine long row' to hoe m order to straighten, .things THE GREAT MILNER has left enough rubbish behind to keep an Assembly busy for 12 solid months, without initiating any new enactments- Oh. yes, the Pro-Consul has left a tough old mountain of ru-liibish behind. As proof of the truth of my statements generally, it is a most significant fact that the Boers have been sent into the first' Legislature under j Responsible Government with a majority over the "Progressives," as I they are called, though are practic-

ally the representatives of the capitalistic clique which runs the Transvaal. No doubt now the capitalists will withdraw as much capital as possible from circulation, and close down as many mines as possible, m order to put the screw en the electors at the next election. And the mining laws over yonder appear to be somewhat lax m this respect ;■ it. appears that they can be practically evaded by merely making a pretence at working.But to draw the lugubrious picture to a close, the position is this : Britain has captured the Transv a al and the result is that thousands of her own people have had to clear out to other countries, not m such a good position to give them work and food, and the great territory which the "SONS OF BRITAIN fought and bled for has been, to all intents and purposes, handed over to foreigners and "Peiuvians." That is the plain, naked truth, and no hon-est-minded man can gainsay it ; and it only drives home to the meanest intelligence the awful muddle which a parcel of old grandmothers m Downing-strect or a lot of monocled military asses, can get a young and vigorous country into. Let Australians take a keen note of this Rand mess, and let them see to it that none of .these tinkering, modelling yahoos shall get our industrial and economic affairs into the same deplorable muddle that they have got the affairs of that hitherto prosperous centre of industry, the Transvaal Republic. The Australians are at least saved from the monocled dandies, and. that, at least, is something.