The South African Question
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57 from Johannesburg, fearing that Jame- son might arrive and cause a dis- turbance said that Johannesburg would be known forever in history by the name of Jiidasburg! and that the Cornish and other Englishmen who fled from the place were poltroons and cowards. But he was mistaken.
JOHANNESBURG IS NOT JUDASBURG, and the Englishmen who fled were not poltroons. There ran in them blood as brave as any in England, and if to-mor- row a hostile force attacked their birth- land, those very Cornish min...ers and English working men would die in the last ditch defending their land. Those men were strangers here ; they came to earn the bread they could with diffi- culty win in their own land ; they were friendly treated by South Africa and 58 THE SOUTH AFRICAN QUESTION.
made money here ; but were they bound to die in a foreign land for causes which they neither knew nor cared for ?
One thing only can possibly justify war and the destruction of our fellows to the enlightened and humane denizen of the nineteenth century ; the unavoid- able conviction that by no other means can we preserve our own life and free- dom from a stronger power, or defend a weaker state or individual from a stronger.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
57 from Johannesburg, fearing that Jame- son might arrive and cause a dis- turbance said that Johannesburg would be known forever in history by the name of Jiidasburg! and that the Cornish and other Englishmen who fled from the place were poltroons and cowards. But he was mistaken.
JOHANNESBURG IS NOT JUDASBURG, and the Englishmen who fled were not poltroons. There ran in them blood as brave as any in England, and if to-mor- row a hostile force attacked their birth- land, those very Cornish min...ers and English working men would die in the last ditch defending their land. Those men were strangers here ; they came to earn the bread they could with diffi- culty win in their own land ; they were friendly treated by South Africa and 58 THE SOUTH AFRICAN QUESTION.
made money here ; but were they bound to die in a foreign land for causes which they neither knew nor cared for ?
One thing only can possibly justify war and the destruction of our fellows to the enlightened and humane denizen of the nineteenth century ; the unavoid- able conviction that by no other means can we preserve our own life and free- dom from a stronger power, or defend a weaker state or individual from a stronger.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Schreiner Olive to read onlineMoreLess
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