Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed

Origin of the Anglo-Boer War
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Title: Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed (2nd ed.) The
Conspiracy of the 19th Century Unmasked
Author: C. H. Thomas
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ORIGIN OF THE ANGLO-BOER WAR REVEALED
The Conspiracy of the 19th Century Unmasked
By C.H. THOMAS
of Belfast Transvaal formerly Orange Free State Burgher
SECOND EDITION

LONDON: HODDER AND STOUGHTON
27 PATERNOSTER ROW MCM
_Butler & Tanner The Selwood Printing Works Frome and London_

NOTICE
The present book had been intended for publication in South Africa
before the end of 1899, with the object of laying bare the wicked and
delusive aims of the Afrikaner Bond combination, to which the
Anglo-Boer war alone is attributable, and to counteract its disastrous
influences so far as then still possible. But until quite lately
circumstances had conspired so as to prevent the writer from leaving
the Transvaal, and when he at last obtained the required passport to
Lourenço Marques he was there denied a permit to visit a colonial port.
He therefore sailed for London in order to publish this book without
more loss of time. Though too late to serve as a deterrent, the contents
may be effective towards showing up the really guilty parties--the
instigators and seducers of the deluded Boer nation, and so pave and
widen the avenue of peace and of conciliation between Boer and Briton
who were duped and victimized alike.
The exposure of the actual culprits and originators should also operate
favourably, and in mitigation in behalf of the much less guilty Boers, so
as to dispose the victors to the exercise of magnanimous consideration.
In exposing the villainy of the Dutch coterie in Holland, the writer is
far from impugning the honourable character of that nation, the better
part of whom, when once undeceived, will be the first to reprobate and
disown those arch-plotters who sacrificed the peace of South Africa for
personal and national advantage.
Some other information regarding the Boers and South Africa will be
found interspersed in this study, which will be found of use to the
uninitiated and to intending emigrants to that sub-continent. As the
reader proceeds with the examination of this book it will suggest
comparisons and even analogies which may commend themselves as
singularly apposite and instructive in relation with the study of the
presently budding Eastern question.
C.H. THOMAS
NOTE TO SECOND EDITION
The issue of a Second Edition has afforded an opportunity to correct a

few linguistic blemishes, but the work has only been very slightly
revised.

CONTENTS
PAGE NOTICE V
INTRODUCTION 1
CURSORY HISTORY OF THE BOER NATION 6
PROSPERITY OF BOERS AND POLITICAL RELATIONS WITH
ENGLAND UP TO 1881 16
TRANSVAAL HISTORY--SUZERAINTY 21
TREATMENT OF UITLANDERS, FRANCHISE, VENALITY,
BRIBERY 25
MONSTER PETITION, JAMESON INCURSION, ARMAMENTS 37
BLOEMFONTEIN CONFERENCE, BOER ULTIMATUM 43
BOER LANGUAGE 52
THE DUTCH COTERIE, ITS SEAT IN HOLLAND 57
AFRIKANER BOND--OUTLINES AND PROGRAMME 62
PACIFIC POLICY OF GREAT BRITAIN 70
PRESS PROPAGANDA--SECRET SERVICE--TRADE RIVALRIES
72
DISLOYALTY OF COLONIAL BOERS 82
PORTUGUESE TERRITORY--TRANSVAAL LOW
VELDT--MALARIA--HORSE SICKNESS 89
CLIMATE AND TOPOGRAPHY 95
BOER PREPAREDNESS FOR WAR 108
ALLIANCE OF ORANGE FREE STATE WITH
TRANSVAAL--SUZERAINTY SQUABBLE--TRANSVAAL
ARMAMENTS PRIOR TO JAMESON RAID 115
THE TRANSVAAL DYNAMITE AND EXPLOSIVES MONOPOLY
122
BOER FIGHTING STRENGTH 124
BOER CONSERVATISM, EDUCATION, DUNDEE DOSSIER,
ANTI-ENGLISH PAMPHLET ENTITLED "A HUNDRED YEARS'
INJUSTICE" 126
AN OLD FREE STATER'S ADMONITION 137
MODUS VIVENDI SUGGESTED BY OLD FREE STATER 143
MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S POLICY TO AVERT WAR 150

AFRIKANER BOND GUILT IN GRADATIONS 155
RÉSUMÉ 161
BOERS' NATIVE POLICY 167
ENGLAND'S NATIVE AND COLONIAL POLICY 172
OCCULT OPERATIONS AND AGENCIES 178
RELIGION 184
PHYSIQUE AND HABITS 193
PRESIDENT KRÜGER 207
PEACE ADJUSTMENTS 212

INTRODUCTION
Apart from the progress of the present Anglo-Boer war a world-wide
interest has been excited also upon the question of its actual origin.
Much disparity of opinion prevails yet as to how it was provoked and
upon which side the guilt of it all lay.
English statesmen of noblest character and best discriminating gifts are
seen professing opposite convictions; one party earnestly asserting the
complete blamelessness of their Government, whilst the other, with
equally sincere assurance, denounces the responsible Ministry for
having provoked a most unjust war against a totally inoffensive people,
whose only