The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1914. RHODESIA.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 15, 17 January 1914, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1914. RHODESIA.

According to a South African writer in a loading Home journal the case for the incorporation of Rhodesia in the Union seems to find more enthusiastic 'advocates outside than inside Rhoidesia itself. So long as this is so, it is unlikely that the Rhodesian settiers or the shareholders of the British South Africa Company, who are the parties principally concerned, will 1)0 greatly impressed. It should be remembered that there are no such possibilities of friction or conflict between Rhodesia and the Union as existed between the four provinces o ftho Union before they came together, which was virtually compulsory in the one case, is absent in the. other. Therefore, while, as Sir Starr Jameson said at the meetin gof the British South Africa Company in London in March last, the ultimate destiny of Southern Rhodesia is probably incorporation, Rhodesians will naturally wait, if delay is likely to place them in a better position to strike a bargain. It would, however, be a prevarication to say that charter rule is popular, but the people are sane enough to inquire

what fate awaits them before they proceed to make a change, for it might easily he for the worse. Only one olan has been put forward. The peoolc are as hostile towards the idea of Crown colong government as they are towards the Union project, and, realising this, the Rhodesian League lias made a sort of amalgamation between fhe Crown colony system and responsible government, which is offered to the settlers under the name of “Representative Government.” The League ippoals to both sections first to join together to obtain representative institutions ofr the country, under which “great and vital questions can be denied in conformity with the wishes of the people.” It is considered significant that the League should declare that the question of entering the Union ■ “is not a present within the scope of practical polities.”