Review of reviews and world's work . , to ad-vance large sums of money free ofinterest, if needed by the Boers, to buy stock andreplenish their farms and herds. As to govern-ment, the Boers were accorded full amnestyand full political rights, with the promise, at theearliest possible day, of self-governing institu-tions for the Orange River Colony and the Trans-vaal, and with just as good a status as the Aus-tralian or the Canadian enjoys. Thus there couldnot possibly have been a greater contrast thanthat between the public assertions of Lord Salis-bury and the leaders of the British Governmen
Review of reviews and world's work . , to ad-vance large sums of money free ofinterest, if needed by the Boers, to buy stock andreplenish their farms and herds. As to govern-ment, the Boers were accorded full amnestyand full political rights, with the promise, at theearliest possible day, of self-governing institu-tions for the Orange River Colony and the Trans-vaal, and with just as good a status as the Aus-tralian or the Canadian enjoys. Thus there couldnot possibly have been a greater contrast thanthat between the public assertions of Lord Salis-bury and the leaders of the British Government,more than a year ago, as to the terms to be ac-corded to the Boers, and that which has actuallytaken place. The stipulations even go so far asto give validity and protection to the debt in-curred by tlie Boers in carrying on their war. Itis true that the Boers have lost a separate inter-national position ; but that is something that theynever had really grown into, or exercised, in anyimpoitant sense. It was hard for them to yield. LORD KITCHENER, THE ONLY ENGLISHMAN WHO HAS GAINEDMUCH REPUTATION IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR. this theoretical point ; but since they had to doit, they made a most remarkable bargain forthemselves, and demonstrated statesmanlike qual-ities equal to the amazing military prowess theworld had already recognized. _. „ , The great West and the new South The Develop- . ,V i ^- •, t- ment of a in tliis country, alter the Civil War,^«<® were created by the thousands ofyoung men whose energies had been developedand whose powers of achievement and leadershiphad been discovered and trained through theemergencies of the conflict. Certainly, one ofthe most important effects of the South Africanwar will, before long, come to be recognized inthe marvelous personal transformation of thou-sands of Boer farmers and their sons, throughthe experience of heroic participation in so greata war against an enemy so highly civilized andso humane, as well as so brave
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