s different
from what I have now stated. They are the result of thirty years'
residence in Africa. But I would ask your readers to believe that the
British Government are rather being forced into war than choosing it of
their own accord. I would also ask your readers to believe that Sir
Alfred Milner, the present Governor of Cape Colony, though undoubtedly a
strong man, is also one of the least aggressive, most cautious, and
pacific of men; and that he has the entire confidence of the whole
British population of the Cape Colony. I know also that when he began
his rule three years ago, he did so with the expectation that by pacific
measures the Dutch question was capable of a happier and better solution
than that in which the situation finds it to-day. The question and
trouble to-day is, briefly, whether the British Government is able to
give protection and secure reasonable rights for its subjects abroad."

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The following was addressed by Mr. John Bellows of Gloucester, to
Senator Hoar, United States, America, and was published in the _New York
Tribune_, Feb. 22nd, 1900. Mr. Bellows, on seeing the publication of his
letter, wrote the following postscript, to Senator Hoar:--

"As the foregoing letter was headed by the Editor of the _New York
Tribune_, 'A Quaker on the War,' I would say, to prevent
misunderstanding, that I speak for myself only, and not for the Society
of Friends, although I entirely believe in its teaching, that if we
love all men we can under no circumstances go to war. There is, however,
a spurious advocacy of peace, which is based, not upon love to men so
much as upon enmity to our own Government, and which levels against it
untrue charges of having caused the Transvaal War. It was to show the
erroneousness of these charges that I wrote this letter."

The following is the text of the letter:--

"Dear Friend, I am glad to receive thy letter, as it gives me the
opportunity of pointing out a misconception into which thou hast fallen
in reference to the Transvaal and its position with respect to the
present war.

"Thou sayest: 'I am myself a great lover of England; but I do not
like to see the two countries joining hands for warlike purposes,
and especially to crush out the freedom of small and weak nations.'

"To this I willingly assent. I am certain that war is in all
circumstances opposed to that sympathy all men owe one to another, and
to