The Transvaal Crisis and Boer Uitlander Struggles
A detailed, opinionated history of Boer migration in South Africa, the rise of the Transvaal, and the tensions between Boers and Uitlanders. The narrative covers English colonization, taxation, displacement, migration to Natal, and the later influx of British and other settlers tied to gold mining. It highlights grievances of Uitlanders in taxation, education, language policy, and political exclusion, culminating in ongoing rebellion and diplomatic friction with Britain.
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South Africa
South African Republic
Cape Colony
Mem
Aoalp
Natal
Euesh
Port
Africa
Mr. Gladstone
British Empire
Great Britain
Republic
Cape
Transvaal
Hvingn
Johannesburg
Exeliah
Asaeexor
Department of Education
Rand
Giro
Jameson's Ride by the Poet Laureate
A garbled excerpt attributes a poem to Alfred Austin about Captain Jameson and the Transvaal. The stanzaic piece describes the raid, moral debates, civilians in danger, and the defenders' costly stand as they reach the gold reef city, ending with a lament that they were wrong yet not fully to blame.
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Jameson
Transvaal
Alfred Austin
Gold-Reef
Ives
Schurmann on Arbitration and United States Policy
The article profiles Jacob Gould Schurmann, Cornell president, as a two‑sided scholar and diplomat. It traces his English birth, studies in London Paris Edinburgh Heidelberg, and rise to leading Cornell. It argues for ratifying a pending arbitration treaty as key to U.S. and world peace, noting his role in the Dewey McKinley era and the Philippine commission.
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Macaulay
Lord Disraeli
Jacob Gould Schurmann
Cornell University
Eithar
Seburmeann
Prince Edward Island
Acadia
Nova Scotia
Canada
Schurmann
England
University of London
Paris
University of Edinburgh
Diplomatic Corpu
Cates
Schurmanns
Heidelberg
United States
Great Britain
Mattain
Lord Salisbury
Congress
Cleveland
McKinley
Miss Munro
Cornell
McCosh
Princeton
Schutmann
McHinney
Scchurmann
Sehrmann
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BOER
Uitlander
Preto
Vaal Tver
Orange Free State
Joneland
Dom Paul
Pretoria
Britain
Barbariem
Ikinshe
Poet Laureate
Hurghere Davy
Alfred
America
Schurmann ON
United
S States
Petate
J. G. Schtrmann
Admiral Dewey
President Schurmann