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Source: German Diplomatic Documents, 1871-1914, selected and translated by E.T.S. Dugdale, Volume III, "The Growing Antagonism, 1898-1910," (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1930), pp. 82-105.
German Note.
From the beginning of 1899 onwards, relations between England and the Transvaal Government once again became worse. In addition to the unsatisfactory negociations about the Republic's claim for indemnity for the Jameson Raid at the end of 1895, there were also points of difference in the question of continuing the dynamite monopoly, but above all, in the British Uitlanders' complaints at the withholding of political rights. On March 21st, 1899, Mr. Chamberlain, the Colonial Minister, had, in contradistinction to Lord Salisbury, from the beginning favoured an active policy with regard to the Transvaal. In a House of Commons speech he uttered bitter complaints, almost amounting to threats, against the Government of the Boer Republic. In reply to Chamberlain's speech of March 24th, President Kruger actually suggested that the Uitlanders' grievances, when viewed aright, were, at bottom, merely a pretext. 'They wanted the country to be given to England' [English in text]. President Kruger was, as a matter of fact, not altogether unaware of the necessity of concessions in the Uitlander question. From the start the German and Dutch Governments had urged the Transvaal Government to make such concessions as were possible in this direction.
[It will be found useful to refer to the' Times ' History of the Boer War. Vol. I.; Worsfold, Lord Milner's Work in South Africa, and Sir L. Michell's Life of Cecil J. Rhodes, Vol. II. 'President Kruger . . . was determined not merely to set himself against all measures of reform, but to increase the disabilities under which the Uitlanders had hitherto lived.'--Worsfold, p. 103.]
BERNHARD VON BULOW, IN BERLIN, TO THE EMPEROR WILLIAM, AT URVILLE, May 10th, 1899
Cipher telegram.
In view of recent expressions of opinion in the British papers concerning the Transvaal, I telegraphed to Your Majesty's Ambassador in London, the head of our Consulate at Cape Town and Your Majesty's Consul at Pretoria to report by telegraph on the present state of relations between England and the Transvaal.
The Ambassador in London answers:
'The information that I have collected contains no certain symptom of any immediate intention on Mr. Chamberlain's part of taking action against the Transvaal. Nor do I think that, considering the present political situation in Europe, Lord Salisbury would desire it. In the opinion, moreover, of our Military Attaché (Baron von Lüttwitz), who is making a report, the British have at present not anything like sufficient military forces in South Africa to attack the Transvaal with a prospect of success, and they do not appear so far to be preparing to reinforce them. Under these circumstances, I am inclined to believe the information that Mr. Chamberlain is addressing a strongly worded note to the Transvaal Government, but wishes to send it by post so as to avoid any appearance of an ultimatum. I learn that capitalists here meanwhile wish to persuade President Kruger to return a conciliatory reply and give way, and that they hope to succeed. On this and on the measure of the concessions to be granted to the Uitlanders I think that the further development of affairs will depend here. If the concessions are really insufficient, we must be prepared to see Chamberlain exploit the situation, both for exciting public opinion here and for forcing the Government to intervene in a way which may lead to a conflict. Moreover, it seems not impossible that in the event of success, England might seek to gain further advantages direct or indirect, --perhaps in connection with Delagoa Bay--which would affect our interests and be at variance with the spirit of the Anglo-German agreement. If the conflict is really in sight (The EMPEROR: 'Not until it has actually broken out.') it might perhaps be advisable for us to approach the British Government in a suitable form with regard to due respect for our interests, as secured by treaty.'
Your Majesty's Consul at Cape Town telegraphs: 'The great tension which has existed between England and the Transvaal for several weeks is due to Chamberlain, Sir [sic] C. Rhodes and the jingoes, who by provocation and threats of war, are trying to induce the Transvaal Government to give way entirely on the Uitlanders question during the present session of the Volksraad.
'There is no immediate danger of war, since every reason for war is lacking. But it is clear that at bottom Mr. Chamberlain desires war with the Transvaal and is trying to lead them into some step which will give an excuse for it. The Governor, who moreover is a tool of Chamberlain's, and the Ministers here are employing their influence in England and the Transvaal to prevent war, which would spread over the whole of South Africa. Feeling is quieter here owing to the news of Chamberlain's departure.'
Your Majesty's Consul at Pretoria reports:
'Government believes Chamberlain desires war, but hopes and wishes to maintain peace; it is, meanwhile, busily preparing defences. Feeling of the Boers against England. Johannesburg evidently much excited, and reckless fighting and destruction of enemy property to be expected. Support by Dutch elements in [South] Africa possible.
'Secret. Negociations are in hand for a meeting between Kruger and Mimer at Bloemfontein. I do not yet believe in war.'
German Note.
At the end of May President Kruger and Governor Mimer met; but after lasting several days the meeting broke up without result. For Milner's detailed report see Staatsarchiv, LXIII, 263.
BERNHARD VON BULOW, IN BERLIN, TO COUNT HATZFELDT, IN LONDON, July 4th, 1899
In agreement with the two last sentences in your telegram of May 9th, I invited the Dutch Government very confidentially, when it was in the act of offering conciliatory advice in its own name to President Kruger at Pretoria, to add that Germany also advised all possible conciliation. This overture was made to the President, who replied as follows:
He gratefully acknowledged the Dutch Government's friendly advice; he would give way as far as was at all possible, but could not renounce his country's independence. In the matter of the franchise he was ready to make far-reaching concessions, but could not admit that persons who were British subjects could have the right to vote in the Transvaal; it would be equivalent to admitting the suzerainty of England. He was ready to reduce the interval for acquiring the franchise from 14 to 9 years, and would later on make it shorter still. But if need be, he was prepared to fight and trusted that now as formerly God would protect the Boers' independence.
I beg you to use your judgment to whom and how far, if at all, you communicate the foregoing in strict confidence, and whether you wish to use Baron von Eckardstein as intermediary. Such a communication--especially if made to the open-hearted Chamberlain or to him and Lord Salisbury--might perhaps afford a clearer insight into the final intentions of the British. Also if the matter were raised by you, it might perhaps remove any ill-temper regarding our motives better than if the fact of our intervention were revealed to the British by any third party.
COUNT HATZFELDT TO THE GERMAN FOREIGN OFFICE, June 7th, 1899
Cipher telegram.
In reply to the telegram of June 4th.
To-day, as on my own initiative, I informed Lord Salisbury confidentially that the Imperial Government together with the Dutch Government had advised President Kruger to show as conciliatory a spirit as possible,' and he begged me to thank Your Highness sincerely. Concerning the conference at Bloemfontein which has recently taken place, Lord Salisbury said that a satisfactory conclusion had not yet been reached, but the ending of the conference did not mean that negociations were broken off, and further ones would probably take place.
On the Stock Exchange the news of the break down of the conference caused a sharp fall to-day. I have good information that the position is thought serious by the Colonial Office, which is busily considering asking for les bons offices of Germany with President Kruger in order to avert a war with the Transvaal, to which la haute finance is strongly opposed.
MEMORANDUM BY BARON VON HOLSTEIN, BERLIN FOREIGN OFFICE, June 8th, 1899
We could not possibly consent to mediate between England and the Transvaal. The dispute cannot be composed, unless one party recedes considerably from its position. If we suggest to the Transvaal concessions which would make bad blood there, we should have unpleasantness with German public opinion. If we advise the British to cease to claim their position as suzerain, we should have to face acute mistrust in our dealings with England.
It would be advisable, therefore, first to wait and see whether we really are requested to mediate, and to make no statements in one sense or the other. If the request really were made, our reply should be somewhat as follows:
Once the fact is made public that Germany and England had come to an agreement about territory in South Africa bordering on the Transvaal, Germany is no longer the one to act as mediator. Any decision not absolutely anti-British would be represented as partial and as the result of concessions made to us by England. It would, therefore, be better for England that we should not let ourselves be pushed into the foreground. As in nearly every other case, so here avoidance of war will most redound to the credit of German interests. As soon as we found, therefore, that the Dutch Government agreed with us on this point, we requested it to forward our friendly advice, along with its own, to Pretoria. Failing the unsuspected support of the Dutch, we might possibly have withheld our advice, in the idea that the impression produced on the Transvaal Government by our South African agreement was sure to weaken the effect of our advice considerably. We considered the North American Republic to be the most suitable mediator of all. For one thing, it stood closest to England at present amongst all civilised states. In the state and social life in America, on the other hand, the Dutch element still occupied a prominent position to-day. This circumstance, as well as the republican form of government, would naturally inspire the Boers with confidence.
So much for the draft of the reply to be returned to England, if it is asked for. It might, however, be advisable now immediately to publish in the Press the suggestion that America is the proper mediator between England and the Transvaal. Even if the idea were traced back to a German source, it is not obvious how that could hurt us. The suggestion would certainly flatter the Americans, and if it came to nothing owing to England, it would doubtless be a disappointment to them. (B. VON BULOW: 'I quite agree.')
BERNHARD VON BULOW, IN BERLIN, TO FLOTOW, GERMAN CHARGE D'AFFAIRES AT THE HAGUE, June 12th, 1899
...The idea of American mediation certainly first saw the light in one or two British newspapers, so that it cannot be regarded as one which is unfriendly to England. But whether it was British, American or Africander by origin will be hard to determine. It is significant that that suggestion has not been loudly echoed in the British Press, but has been the more freely welcomed in America...
FLOTOW, CHARGE D'AFFAIRES AT THE HAGUE, TO THE CHANCELLOR, PRINCE VON HOHENLOHE, June 14th, 1899
At to-day's reception by the Minister de Beaufort, I was able... to discuss the Transvaal question with him. M. de Beaufort spoke of the affair with the lively interest which I have always remarked in him, and which is actually caused by his long-standing personal friendship with President Kruger.
The Minister did not show any liking for the idea of arbitration by America. The published declarations of British Ministers allowed him no hope that the British Government would ever be willing to admit arbitration by a Foreign Power on this affair. It would force them to desert the principles they had hitherto followed in their relations with the Transvaal and bind their hands in all future disputes with the Republic. There would also be a fear that, owing to its present inclination towards England, the American Government might decide altogether in the sense of the British claims; even now American papers were speaking up for England and against the Transvaal Republic. He imagined that President Kruger also shared this view with him and would regard the idea of arbitration by the United States with suspicion. M. de Beaufort finished by saying that he considered that further developments must be awaited.
Directly after this conversation I was able to see the Minister's Chef de Cabinet and reported my conversation with M. de Beaufort to him in confidence. I found him much more inclined to entertain the idea of American arbitration. He thought the Imperial Government's arguments very much worth considering and point~d to the United States, as the only Power suitable under the circumstances to act as arbitrator. In England also they were perhaps not so likely to reject the idea, since they were evidently embarrassed there as to what attitude to assume. Owing to the attitude of Cape Colony, there were strong objections against a war; but if the British Government failed to take any energetic steps now at once, the prestige they would lose in South Africa would be incalculable. M. Ruyssenaers said quite spontaneously that he would not think it a bad plan if M. de Beaufort sent for Mr. Leyds and discussed the idea of American arbitration with him. He would himself in any case talk the matter over with the Minister again.
Considering the decision with which the Minister gave his opinion, I should not anticipate any too great success for this gentleman's attempt to turn him. Meanwhile, it may perhaps be well to give him a few days to let his suggestive influence work on the Minister.
FLOTOW, AT THE HAGUE, TO THE GERMAN FOREIGN OFFICE, June 22nd, 1899
Cipher telegram.
Dutch Minister in Paris informs M. de Beaufort that Mr. Leyds called on him and informed him that President Kruger does not consider the present moment yet suitable for calling in American mediation.
COUNT VON BULOW, IN BERLIN, TO FLOTOW, AT THE HAGUE, July 4th, 1899
Count Hatzfeldt telegraphs that he considers the prospect of peace in the Transvaal affair very doubtful, because, though the majority in the British Ministry is against war, it is tied by Mr. Chamberlain's public action which the Government permitted. In consequence of this, it is forced to allow certain substantial concessions to avoid the risk of being blamed for a shameful retreat. Also, any news of disturbances in Johannesburg and of their suppression would--rightly or wrongly--incline public opinion more towards war than has been the case hitherto. The present condition of relative quiet cannot last any longer, in Count Hatzfeldt's opinion.
The contents of the telegram indicate that the Ambassador thinks that the Transvaal ought to hesitate no longer with the moderate concessions necessary to prevent war; otherwise it will be too late.
Please report Count Hatzfeldt's views in the right quarter, without special instructions.
German Note.
On July 28th, 1899, the Transvaal question was debated in both Houses of Parliament. In the House of Commons Mr. Chamberlain declared outright that England's condition for not intervening was that the Transvaal Government should proceed seriously to place the indigenous Dutch population on an equal footing politically with the Uitlanders. In the Lords Lord Salisbury also protested against the differentiated legal status of the Ijitlanders and Dutch. He refused to admit that the London Convention of 1884, on which the Boers based their arguments, was good for an unlimited period. Whilst England had no intention to annul such conventions so long as they were granted an honourable existence, very few Englishmen would wish now to have England's seal stamped on that Convention in its original form.
The Emperor, who was yachting in the North just then, took exception to Lord Salisbury's theory of the Convention, as appears from a telegram, dated Semmering, July 30th, from Count Bulow to the German Foreign Office; he caused Count Hatzfeldt, as well as Count Bulow, to ask for an expression of his opinion on Lord Salisbury's speech.
COUNT HATZFELDT, IN LONDON, TO THE GERMAN FOREIGN OFFICE, July 30th, 1899
Cipher telegram.
In obedience to His Majesty's command to express my opinion on Lord Salisbury's Transvaal speech, I have telegraphed as follows to Count zu Eulenburg at Bergen:
'When I last met Lord Salisbury (The EMPEROR: 'The date? Before or after his House of Lords speech?') he told me in strict confidence that the settlement of difficulties with the Transvaal needed still more time, and that before they were settled there might be unpleasant explanations (The EMPEROR: 'With or without arms? '), but that he did not believe in the inclination recently shown by President Kruger, to resort to war. (The EMPEROR: '!Die Botschaft hôrt ich wohl, allein mir fehit die Glaube.--I heard the message, but I did not believe it.') The speech is thus explained by the need of convincing the Transvaal Government that the British Cabinet is united on the question, and of not relaxing the pressure that this fact should exercise on the councils of President Kruger. As an indication that Lord Salisbury's peaceful tendencies continue to keep the upper hand in the Cabinet, I think it should be pointed out that the Transvaal Government is showing more readiness to negociate and is not refusing unconditionally to go a step beyond its latest concessions. Chamberlain's speech also shows that he wishes to gain time, for in it he said that he had proposed to the Transvaal Government a joint enquiry into the question as to how far President Kruger's latest concessions would give the Uitlanders genuine and immediate representation. (The EMPEROR: 'As Kruger regards himself as the President of an "independent State," such a proposal is an insult.') In the interests of peace it would be desirable for the Transvaal Government to agree to this. (The EMPEROR: 'He cannot do this without giving away everything.')
'Sir Frank Lascelles (on leave in England), who has been constantly meeting all the leading personages here, informed me confidentially on his departure that he was taking away a decided impression that the danger of war complications no longer existed.'
The EMPEROR: 'I greatly regret that I cannot come to this conclusion.--Lord Salisbury put Hatzfeldt off with general phrases, because he was unwilling to lie to him directly and to have to eat his words, if after all he does go to war! He remains as obscure as before! This telegram leaves me just as wise as I was before it! ')
COUNT VON BULOW, AT SEMMERING, TO THE GERMAN FOREIGN OFFICE, July 31st, 1899
Cipher telegram.
For the Emperor.
The speeches of Lord Salisbury and Mr. Chamberlain, in my humble opinion, leave no doubt that the British Government is making demands on the South African Republic over and above the measure of the concessions, already sanctioned by the Boers. It is not out of the question that, rather than endure this limitless pressure, President Kruger might finally prefer a war in which military superiority would at first be on the Boer side. This latter fact may, on the other hand, induce the British not to strain the bow too violently. On their side the Boers cannot but be aware that, in the long run, England is very much the stronger party, and that, once engaged, she must bring it to a victorious conclusion.
On the whole, therefore, I should gather from the recent Transvaal debates in the British Parliament that there will be no war, but that the speeches made at this moment may be taken as a further attempt at intimidation and part of the 'game of bluff'--especially at a moment when even President Kruger himself is not quite at one with his Volksraad. Government and Opposition in England appear to me to be following the same plan--that of making it clear to Boers and Afrikanders that all parties in England are agreed about the South African question--in order to force the Transvaal to grant further concessions. To show that the war-danger is not yet acute, I will mention that up till yesterday Consols had not fallen, indicating that the City does not believe in a war.
I hope that the theory of the Convention set up by Lord Salisbury may only be taken as meaning: 'War destroys treaty.' Otherwise, and if made to apply generally, the British Prime Minister's sentiments would effectually diminish the value of British treaty arrangements and promises.
The possibility of a serious conflict in South Africa will make the British more compliant and certainly more careful when dealing with Russia. Even in the event of war in South Africa, the British Government would be very unwilling to go as far as to denude India, owing to the distrust of Russia so deeply rooted in England.
[THE EMPEROR WILLIAM, AT WILHELMSHOHE, TO PRINCE VON BULOW, AUGUST 8TH, 1899. EXTRACT. [Published in September, 1928, by the Berliner Tageblatt.]
Best thanks for your interesting communication. The most astounding thing--if no longer anything like most surprising--is the doing of the fat English Premier (Lord Salisbury). Three weeks ago full of anxiety, attention, and heartfelt longing for conversation with me, now precisely the reverse. I assume it is a sign that his old woman (Seine Alte) is regaining her strength, for she directs him, and the British petticoats seem in general to house a wind which blows contrary to me and my attempts. Well, that will just have to be borne and reckoned with. Anyhow, it is very good to see what sort of impression it makes among the promenaders of Europe when we greet Madame Gallia on parade and she puts her parasol on the other side, and nods and even stops a moment and talks to us. That will do more for the peace of Europe than ten Hague Conferences and some dozens of peace-tribunal-privy-judicial-chief arbitration-appeal-conference-sheep's heads.
But La Belle France must still always be very hysterical. For that a hypocritical, energetic warrior like (General) Galliffet, for the sake of God and his post, has implored me to have no compliments for the army and its graves is the most monstrous thing that I have experienced up to the present. The reverse would have appeared to me so natural, so much a matter of course, that I could have interpreted an omission of this action only as a gross lack of tact. And now precisely not. The devil take it.
Anyhow, I beg you to instruct Le Prince de Derenburg (Muenster) to watch like a pointer for the comments which will come out on the i8th in the Paris Press. And so soon as there is only a hint that something ought to have been done in the form proposed by me-but rejected by Galliffet- he must ruthlessly come out with the truth before the public, however nasty that may be for Galliffet. My speech is decently and inoffensively enough drafted, and I won't make further alterations in it.]
COUNT HATZFELDT, IN LONDON, TO THE GERMAN FOREIGN OFFICE, August 9th, 1899
Cipher telegram.
Herr Goerz sends me a copy of a telegram sent to him to-day in English by his Johannesburg agent. It is as follows:
'We hear that the Transvaal Government has not yet replied [to the British proposal for a conference on the franchise question]; it is going to return a very polite answer, but will explain that the Government does not yet see what good an examination of the franchise question alone would do, and will propose a discussion of official questions. We hear that President Kruger informed V. S. Aubert, the French Consul, unofficially that the Government will grant a Commission, if the German, French and Russian Consuls appoint delegates; (The EMPEROR: "No I that would not suit us.") otherwise the risk cannot be avoided that the British Government may interfere in the internal affairs of the South African Republic. We do not believe that the British Government will agree, or that the German Government will be prepared for this step. We have seen Consul Biermann, who said to me privately that he also was inclined to believe this, but he begs me to ascertain, through Goerz' Berlin house, the Foreign Office view of the matter.
'E. Boucher (a Johannesburg Frenchman) and the French Consul have telegraphed to Paris. If the French Government agrees, it is intended that the French in Johannesburg shall present a petition regarding a delegate to their Consul. We hear that the British Government have selected Conynghame Greene, its diplomatic Agent at Pretoria, as their delegate.'...
(The EMPEROR: 'We keep out of it! let the Hague Peace Conference step in.')
BARON VON RICHTHOFEN, IN BERLIN, TO BIERMANN, CONSUL AT PRETORIA, August 10th, 1899.
Whenever you are invited, especially by private interested parties, to make statements about the Anglo-Transvaal conflict, and particularly about the Imperial Government's probable attitude towards this conffict, you will in future maintain the strictest reserve.
German Note.
After the close of the Hague Peace Conference at the end of July, M. Delcassé [French Foreign Minister] went to St. Petersburg.
COUNT VON BULOW, AT SEMMERING, TO THE GERMAN FOREIGN OFFICE, August 12th, 1899
Cipher telegram.
With reference to the telegram of August 9th from the Imperial Ambassador in London, which quotes Herr Goerz' message, Count Hatzfeldt telegraphs privately:
'The people who are pressing Kruger to demand appointment of Russian, French and German delegates are playing straight into Chamberlain's hands. If Chamberlain says no to this attempt to get rid of the suzerainty claim by means of foreign arbitration, he will have British public opinion behind him and be stronger than ever. Moreover, President Kruger will probably be proved wrong, if he imagines that Russia and France, or France alone, will espouse his cause at the risk of a serious difference with England; and I do not think that here they are seriously worried by it or think that such wifi result from Delcassé's journey. Even the suspicions against Rothschild, which I mentioned confidentially in this connection, will hardly make much difference.
'I do not yet believe in any immediate measures for using military force, even if the Transvaal Government should give an answer referring to foreign intervention, as reported by Goerz. But it might cause us to pass into the second and more dangerous phase of concentration of troops--all the more dangerous, because, after the adjournment of Parliament, the Opposition is no longer effective. It has been Chamberlain's very clever game from the beginning gradually to warm up public opinion, which was at first very cool, in favour of the scheme, to represent himself as the champion of legitimate but extremely moderate demands, and to put the Transvaal Government apparently in the wrong as against England. This has been continuously more and more successful up to a certain point, and neither public opinion nor the more peaceable members of the Cabinet would now seriously oppose decisive action, if Kruger really rejected all enquiry or made it dependent on foreign participation, which would be taken still worse here. Would it not be possible, before it is too late, to make the situation clear to Kruger, either through the Dutch or directly through our Consul? In any case it seems to me essential to avoid all statements which could be pointed to as an intrigue out there for participation against the British proposal. If the suggestion in Goerz' telegram is a true one-that Biermann regards our participation in the appointment of European delegates as improbable, but that he suggested that the house of Goerz should ascertain in Berlin what was the Foreign Office view--such a statement, if it came to the ears of the British Government, would be quite enough to arouse the greatest suspicions against us.'
On the grounds of general policy and in consideration of the Anglo-German Agreement, we must naturally avoid being forced into a false position, both with England and the Transvaal, in connection with the present troubles in South Africa. Consul Biermann's attitude seems rather an unsafe one, and it would be advisable to impress on him once again that Germany will not let herself be dragged into the Transvaal dispute in any form whatever. Herr Biermann can, of course, only have spoken as he did, if the question of European participation in the dispute was discussed with him or in his presence. As for Count Hatzfeldt's suggestion that President Kruger should be warned by the Dutch, it would have to be considered whether, all things being taken into account, a telegram should be sent to Baron von den Brincken, our Minister at the Hague, somewhat as follows:
'The view of the Imperial Ambassador in London, which was communicated to the Dutch Government in June, that, by hesitating to comply, President Kruger would make the Transvaal's position worse and more dangerous, appears to be confirmed. British public opinion, which hitherto championed the peace idea, is beginning to regard the hesitations of the Transvaal Government as a sign of hostile intentions. Moreover, the power to oppose, which lay hitherto in the attitude of the Parliamentary Opposition, will now fall away when Parliament is adjourned. Count Hatzfeldt sees a further danger in the influence on British feeling of the idea, now apparently suggested by the Transvaal Government, to attempt to draw Germany, France and Russia into the unsettled dispute. Germany could not consent to this proposal which, if accepted, would imply German partizanship. The Russian Government has repeatedly declared that South Africa leaves it cold. That France by herself would stand up with the Transvaal against England is improbable, even though President Kruger might have received encouragement from Paris; he certainly possesses no binding and unambiguous promise in writing of armed support by France. We are informed that the British people would regard an appeal to European Powers, who are somewhat held in suspicion in England, as a direct provocation-almost more than would be a definite rejection of the form of enquiry as proposed by England. As for ourselves, we should, out of genuine sympathy for the Boers, prevent President Kruger from playing into the hands of the war party and rushing into a war, the result of which cannot, humanly speaking, be doubtful, considering the isolation of the South African Dutch. Your Excellency will therefore communicate the foregoing to M. de Beaufort immediately and beg him to pass it on in confidence to the Transvaal Government. It would be better to telegraph it to Pretoria than to communicate it to Mr. Leyds. Count Hatzfeldt fears that a decided change in the direction of war is imminent, supposing the Transvaal Government should definitely refuse an enquiry or appeal to the great continental Powers. The Imperial Consul at Pretoria has been instructed direct concerning Germany's abstention.'
German Note.
The telegram suggested by Bülow was despatched on August 13th.
BARON VON RICHTHOFEN, IN BERLIN, TO BIERMANN, CONSUL AT PRETORIA, August 13th, 1899
Germany is not to be drawn into the Transvaal dispute in any form. But you will naturally not declare this, unless you find fully sufficient and ample reason for doing so--when the question of intervention by the European Powers is discussed with you or in your presence.
German Note.
The Suzerainty question [see below] was introduced by Chamberlain in a telegram, dated July 13th, 1899, after President Kruger had met Milner, the High Commissioner, at Bloemfontein and insisted on the South African Republic's integrity remaining unquestioned. The introduction of this ominous question at once acted prejudicially on the negotiations. In a telegram (August 19th), Reitz, the Secretary of State of the Republic, rejected the British proposal of a joint Commission to settle the Uitlander question, but of his own initiative offered further concessions, adding a demand that the British Government should cease to assert their Suzerainty. A British note (August 28th), rejecting this demand point-blank, was followed by the Republic's withdrawal (September 2nd) of its offer of concessions in the Uitlander question; whereupon the British Government threatened (September 9th) 'to treat the affair from a fresh standpoint and make some proposals of his own, calculated to bring about a final settlement'. For the text of the notes, see Staatsarchiv, LXIII, 322.
COUNT HATZFELDT, IN LONDON, TO THE EMPEROR WILLIAM, August 27th, 1899
A few days ago it was still generally assumed that a satisfactory answer was to be expected from the Transvaal Government, and that. peace would thus be assured. But now, since President Kruger has placed the suzerainty question in the forefront, the situation has become worse again. It cannot be ignored that by doing so he has played into Mr. Chamberlain's hands, whose efforts for some time have obviously been directed towards exciting public opinion here in favour of energetic action against the Transvaal. For this purpose the franchise question proved insufficient, and I know from a sure source that after the failure of the Bloemfontein conference, Mr. Chamberlain complained to his friends that the public here took little interest in the question and that this indifference had tied his hands. To-day all is changed, for the national consciousness of the British has been stung and wounded by the demand that England shall renounce her suzerainty, and I believe that hardly any Englishman exists, whichever Party he belongs to, who would oppose the maintenance by force of England's control of the Transvaal, if there were any question of it. It would make no difference whether this view is justified by treaties of which most of the public here are probably quite ignorant, and people are satisfied with the assumption that, even though unsupported by any title based on a treaty, England, is 'the paramount Power' in South Africa (The EMPEROR: 'The old English policy of unscrupulous self-interest and clownishness.'), and must keep up her position under all circumstances. This being so, I think it was a decided mistake of the Transvaal Government to introduce this question and to demand a formal renunciation of suzerainty, if it is not ready to fight at once.
In a long confidential conversation which I had yesterday with the Prime Minister this question was touched upon, and his observations showed that he thinks this condition demanded by the Transvaal Government quite unacceptable, but that he does not, on this account, think that further concessions by the Transvaal Government are out of the question, and so far, therefore, he has not given up the hope of maintaining peace. From his whole attitude and the tone of his utterances I gained the impression then, as indeed whenever Mr. Chamberlain is mentioned between us in confidence, that he does not agree with his colleague's aggressive policy in every respect, bears no great personal good will to him, and is not particularly anxious for him to strengthen his political position still further by a successful coup. We cannot, of course, conclude from this that the Prime Minister will oppose the use of force, if the Transvaal Government sticks to a demand which is considered unacceptable here, and if Mr. Chamberlain uses it as a lever for pushing England into a war. It must also be realised that the Prime Minister cannot raise a protest, even if he would, since in this case Mr. Chamberlain would undoubtedly have public opinion on his side.
On the other hand, Lord Salisbury clearly assumes that the decision whether it is to be peace or war is not yet imminent. When I asked how he imagined matters would develop further, he said without hesitation that they would probably drag on for some time to come. Then, in order to draw further remarks from him, particularly as to Mr. Chamberlain's intentions, I said that, as an impartial observer, it was my impression that the Colonial Secretary had manceuvred very cleverly from his own point of view, so as to arouse public feeling, which was at first very cool, in favour of the energetic action which he desired. Lord Salisbury admitted willingly that this idea was correct and proved that I had been following developments attentively. He added that even in London there had been a party inclined for war from the beginning; whereas in the country, especially in the North, feeling had been in favour of peace.
Referring to an article which appeared recently in the Standard, denying
the accusation that England wished to possess the Transvaal, on the ground that,
apart from the mines, the country was quite valueless, I said in joke that if
this assertion was true, it could hardly be brought into line with Mr. Chamberlain's
keenness in endeavouring to bring this valueless country under British control
in some form. The Prime Minister laughed heartily at my remark and did not deny
its correctness. Nor did he deny it at all when I suggested the possibility
that the Transvaal Government was perhaps under the impression that, even if
it now gave way in everything, Mr. Chamberlain would sooner or later find a
reason for starting a fresh discussion and for reducing its independence still
further. (The EMPEROR:
On this occasion Lord Salisbury spoke with much irritation of Schreiner, the Cape Minister, who had been letting through arms and munitions for the Transvaal Government behind the back of Sir Alfred Milner. It was unheard of that this could happen in a British colony. Moreover, the Transvaal Government was already so well supplied with arms as to able to equip every Burger who would bear arms with two rifles. Of course, it might still be in want of ammunition, which explained the tactics practised at Pretoria of protracting the negociations with England in order to gain time. Hence also the irritation at the behaviour of the Portuguese, who were holding up the transport of munitions intended for the Transvaal. I quietly refrained from expressing an opinion on this point.
As our conversation proceeded, M. Delcassé's journey to St. Petersburg came under discussion, also England's relations towards Russia, and I consider it right to repeat Lord Salisbury's words on the subject and also an opinion be expressed regarding conditions in France, since, if I may be allowed to judge, they are not without bearing on England's present attitude in the Transvaal question.
Having said that so far he had learnt nothing definite as to the motive of this journey, but that he could not quite share in the view which, according to his information, was put about in St. Petersburg, that the journey was merely due to motives of personal vanity, he volunteered a kind of exposition of the relations between Count Muravieff and the British Ambassador (Sir Charles Scott), of the present attitude of the Russians towards England, and of the political situation in Russia. First he said that, as I knew, the personal relations between Sir Charles Scott and the Russian Foreign Minister were of the friendliest. Moreover, Russia's attitude towards this country had been not at all unfriendly of late, and, strange as it might seem, the Russian Emperor had been showing consideration for British interests in China. These the Minister did not describe more closely. (The EMPEROR: 'This was done to impress us.') Lord Salisbury then argued that Russia was now unable to undertake any great political enterprise abroad. The famine in Russia was much more serious than was generally supposed and was engaging the resources and attention of the Government. Added to this was the lack of money, for which M. Witte had so far found no cure.
The Minister now turned to conditions in France, and said emphatically and with unmistakable contempt that they could only be described as complete chaos. The present pretenders [to autocratic power] were personally so insignificant, that they clearly had no prospect of success. So far no other outstanding personality had been found in France with a prospect of taking the lead successfully. Until this happened, there could hardly be a change in the situation in France, and it could not be expected that the French, as they now were, would play a decisive part in European politics.
Though Lord Salisbury limited himself to this exposition and omitted to add any deductions from it, it is clear, if I am not mistaken, that his object was to show me that England now thinks that her hands are free and sees no reason to fear interference from Russia and France jointly, and certainly not from France alone. (The EMPEROR: 'Correct.')
I venture to suggest that this view of the European situation is not a pleasant one for our interests here, since the British now see no reason for making any great sacrifice for our friendship. (The EMPEROR: 'Correct.') The wish to be on good terms with Germany is fairly general amongst the public and is, according to my information, shared by most of the Cabinet. But the realisation that England must make appropriate sacrifices for it will not come until bad times arrive and England is forced to recognise that she has no alternative but to be friends with Germany. (The EMPEROR: 'It is interesting that in his lecture on the upsetting of the balance between the Powers the Premier forgot India and Persia. If there is a Transvaal war, the Russians will make themselves felt there! Then the value of our friendship will rise in the market, especially in London! ')
An immediate outbreak of war in South Africa is hardly imaginable, unless the Transvaal Republic begins it. From all that I hear, confirmed also by the reports of Captain Baron von Lüttwitz, all measures have been prepared here for war, but once the orders are given, the carrying out of them will certainly take a longish time. The forces now in South Africa are quite insufficient to undertake an attack, and it is not at all unlikely that an attack under such circumstances would be followed by a serious defeat. Thus it may be presumed also that the negociations will continue meanwhile, and it would be desirable in the Republic's interests that the President should realise two things firstly, that the defeat of the Republic is merely a matter of time when England's resources are considered; and, secondly, and--most important--that the inevitable result of defeat would be, if not annexation, complete loss at any rate of any sort of independence.
I have good information that Her Majesty Queen Victoria passionately desires to end her long reign in peace and not to be involved in a European war, and that she looks with anxiety and suspicion on any sign that arouses her fears that England may be involved in war with Russia and France. I think I may assume that Lord Salisbury, who stayed at Osborne two days ago to make his report, reassured the Queen during this visit and told her, as he has told me, that even in the event of war with the Transvaal, no interference by France or Russia, and therefore no conffict with them, are to be feared.
I will mention, as being curious, that at this critical moment Mr. Chamberlain is remaining at Birmingham, whilst Lord Salisbury is in residence at Walmer Castle, near Dover, and only rarely comes up to London for a few hours. He gave me a meeting yesterday, and I thought it my duty not to mention it, as he had refused appointments with the other foreign representatives. On parting he said to me that he would not come up during the whole of next week and would regard himself as being on leave. This will make my task of discussing our business with him considerably more difficult.
COUNT VON BULOW, IN BERLIN, TO BARON VON DEN BRINCKEN, AT THE HAGUE, August 29th, 1899
Telegram. Secret.
In a private letter, written the day before yesterday in the evening, Count Hatzfeldt writes:
'Even now I do not yet believe in war, given that they have not gone mad at Pretoria. Salisbury certainly does not want war, if he can avoid it; but he will be driven into it, if Kruger insists on the suzerainty being definitely renounced. By so doing, he is doing Chamberlain the greatest service, whereas the latter will tumble into the gutter if Kruger renounces it. The Boers ought to be satisfied with letting existing treaties remain in force, perhaps with a reservation that any differences of opinion which may creep in should be decided by a legal tribunal. To-day the chances are that the Transvaal will be defeated and then lose everything.'
Please communicate the above to M. de Beaufort immediately, with a request to pass on the contents to Pretoria--but not to compromise Count Hatzfeldt.
German Note.
At the meeting of September 8th the Cabinet discussed the reply to the Transvaal Government's note of September 2nd--which reply (September 9th) was one of rejection and thereby intensified the crisis; also, and especially, the question of military preparation for the war which now appeared highly probable. As telegraphed by Hatzfeldt on September 9th, it was decided to send 10,000 men, including 6,000 from India, to South Africa.
COUNT HATZFELDT, IN LONDON, TO THE GERMAN FOREIGN OFFICE, September 8th, 1899
Cipher telegram.
The result of to-day's Cabinet Council has been kept very secret. From words used to-day by Lord Salisbury, I have the impression that he has not quite given up hope of a peaceful settlement. He admitted freely that no ships had yet been chartered for the transport of troops and that it would take more time still to fit them out.
My present impression is that an energetically worded reply will be handed to the Transvaal Government and that a few thousand men will be sent to South Africa, in order to increase the pressure, but that negotiations will not entirely be broken off.
As regards the Queen's feelings, Lord Salisbury told me very confidentially that Her Majesty earnestly desired to urge peace upon her Government, but she had in no way forgotten nor got over the Majuba defeat in February, 1881.
I am reliably informed that in a telegram to-day to one of his political friends here Mr. Rhodes expressed a conviction that the Transvaal Government would end by giving in.
BARON VON RICHTHOFEN, IN BERLIN, TO THE EMPEROR WILLIAM, AT MAGDEBURG, September 13th, 1899
Cipher telegram.
Your Majesty's Ambassador in London telegraphs:
'Referring to the Transvaal situation Lord Salisbury has just told me in strict confidence that he does not even now believe in a war. (The EMPEROR: 'Then why all this transport of troops from India?') He said that Chamberlain's latest note did not mention the question of suzerainty.'
COUNT HATZFELDT, IN LONDON, TO THE GERMAN FOREIGN OFFICE, September 14th, 1899
Cipher telegram.
I hear from the City to-day that war is generally expected there, and that there has been a considerable fall in prices on the Stock Exchange. Definite grounds for this panic are not ascertainable, for [Alfred] Rothschild, whom I have just seen, has had no news of any refusal by the Transvaal Government.
COUNT HATZFELDT, IN LONDON, TO THE GERMAN FOREIGN OFFICE, September 20th, 1899
Cipher telegram.
In confidential conversation with Baron von Eckardstein to-day, Mr. Chamberlain described war as unavoidable now that the Transvaal had made any peaceful compromise impossible. England must of course now insist upon stronger conditions and demand guarantees from the Boers; these he did not define. He himself did not believe that the fresh British demands, which would be settled at the next Cabinet Council, would be accepted by the Transvaal. Speaking of the Orange Free State, Mr. Chamberlain showed some anxiety lest it might at the last moment desert the Transvaal and remain neutral. He added in explanation that if this happened the Orange Free State would continue as an independent wedge in the middle of British South Africa. Moreover it was important strategically to send British troops through the Free State, and this could not be done if it remained neutral. Finally Mr. Chamberlain said that there was no necessity to summon Parliament at present, as the Government's reserve fund gave it sufficient means for starting the war. He mentioned that he had met with difficulties here on all sides in his Transvaal policy, and he let me see that this had been particularly the case with Lord Salisbury.
COUNT VON BULOW, AT SEMMERING, TO THE GERMAN FOREIGN OFFICE, September 20th, 1899
Cipher telegram.
The language of our Press should be calm and cool about the Transvaal crisis and should confine itself to facts. Whilst the admittedly semi-official journals must carefully avoid offending large sections in Germany by conspicuous partisanship for England or spiteful attacks upon the Boers, it is also desirable that the German Press should not fall into the errors committed by it during the Spanish-American war, in championing the weaker side from the start in an unnecessarily blatant tone. It must be explained throughout the country that since France, Russia, Italy and Austria are not thinking of becoming enemies with England on account of South African questions, Germany cannot step forward and commit herself there all alone.
COUNT HATZFELDT, IN LONDON, TO THE GERMAN FOREIGN OFFICE, September 30th, 1899
Cipher telegram.
To-day's Standard announces from Paris that certain semiofficial papers have published, treating it as inspired, a telegram from London, to the effect that the British Government is anxious concerning our attitude in the Transvaal question. It is worth nothing that in confidential conversation with Baron von Eckardstein 1 Mr. Chamberlain said that the British Government knew perfectly well that our attitude towards England would be correct throughout. But the general public did not know this; in fact it was universally assumed that our feeling and attitude was unfriendly. Mr. Chamberlain also questioned whether it might not be possible and opportune to enlighten and reassure public opinion here by a public demonstration of our sympathy with England in this crisis.
At the next opportunity I intend to inform Mr. Chamberlain through Baron von Eckardstein that it is the British Government's business to enlighten the public through the Press as to the real facts of the case, which it knows quite well. Also I felt that I had no right to recommend the Imperial Government to make a public demonstration of sympathy, whilst the conclusion of the agreement on the Samoan question, which alone stood in the way of intimate relationship between us, still met with such great obstacles here.
[Count Hatzfeldt was instructed to inform Mr. Chamberlain that the foregoing correctly represented the intentions of the German Government.]
SIR FRANK LASCELLES, IN BERLIN, TO DERENTHALL, GERMAN FOREIGN OFFICE, October 3rd, 1899
I have the honour to inform Your Excellency that I have received telegraphic instructions from the Marquess of Salisbury to inquire whether the Imperial Government would allow the Imperial Representative at Pretoria to take charge of British interests in the event of its being found necessary to withdraw the British Agent in consequence of a hostile movement directed against British territory by the Boers.
I have the honour to request Your Excellency to be so good as to inform me at your earliest convenience as to what answer I may return to Her Majesty's Government.
German Note.
From telegrams despatched by Count Hatzfeldt on October 7th, 1899, it appears that he made efforts to bring influence to bear [regarding the Samoan settlement] on Lord Salisbury through Alfred Rothschild, Lord Lansdowne, Mr. Goschen, and others.
COUNT VON BULOW, IN BERLIN, TO COUNT HATZFELDT, October 8th, 1899
...On your side you have done all, if not directly, then by other means, to attain the object; so that I am not giving up hope that we shall finally reach a satisfactory settlement, and I consider your method of influencing Lord Salisbury through the medium of influential Englishmen to be the one best suited to the Premier's character.
At present, however, the situation is so unfriendly in England that His Majesty's Government has been forced to renounce the idea of representing British interests in the Transvaal for the reasons already known to you.
Herr von Derenthall explained very confidentially to the British Ambassador, who came for the purpose of enquiring, that Germany's representative in the Transvaal was merely a Consul, who had only recently been transferred, and in whom we did not expect enough authority and local knowledge to be able to cope at once with all the difficult and complicated duties involved in representing British interests. The Ambassador accepted the statement with calm seriousness and offered no comment, but Herr von Derenthall's impression was that the Ambassador understood what was meant.
Having, as in duty bound, fulfilled the obligations of politeness by our formal declaration, we should now not fail to place the real motive for our refusal in its right light. I shall speak to the British Ambassador in this sense to-morrow and can confidentially leave it to your experience to decide where and how you make your explanation in London. As things are I think that neither you nor I shall find much trouble in making our listeners understand the glaring disproportion between Lord Salisbury's wide claim on our friendly support--for protection of British interests in the Transvaal would naturally have meant no mere formality--and his freely expressed unfriendly treatment of all questions which interest Germany. Even a strong Government, like the German one, must avoid challenging the legitimate criticism of public opinion at home, which would at once be aroused, if it repaid slights, such as those constantly suffered by it in the course of the Samoan question, with acts of friendship. Germany would make her position worse not only with England, but with the rest of the Powers who are looking on.
These discussions will perhaps give you an indication of the real reason for the Premier's lack of cordiality. The disapproval of the political personages mentioned in your telegrams shows me that his brusqueness is not to be explained by any material British interests; so that there only remains the supposition that the 'personal question' mentioned by Mr. Chamberlain, i.e., his entirely causeless irritation against the Emperor, or perhaps some suspicion whose source is unknown to us, plays a part in it. The irritation, for which just now there is no cause whatever, should be capable of being overcome by strong British arguments. As for the suspicion--that also must be without valid reasons, for throughout the whole course of the Transvaal crisis the German Government has observed a perfectly loyal and unfailingly correct attitude, which disappointed the Transvaal and was criticised by a large section of the German people and some of the other Powers; the British reproaches on this count must therefore at most refer to events having no political significance. Owing to the importance of the whole affair I shall communicate with you more in detail, but now I say that they may find excuses, but not reasons, for their suspicion.
[The task of protecting British interests was, in the end, undertaken by the United States.]
COUNT VON BULOW, IN BERLIN, TO COUNT HATZFELDT, October 8th, 1899
Telegram. Very secret.
The British Government's attitude of refusal in the Samoa affair may perhaps be explained by the supposition that Lord Salisbury and perhaps Mr. Chamberlain also have conceived an unfounded suspicion against our loyal attitude in the Transvaal question.
It is quite unknown here what can be brought with any justification against our absolutely loyal and correct attitude in the Transvaal affair. In any case I will inform you confidentially that certain German business men in South-West Africa, led by Herr von Hansemann, have for some months been trying to obtain a concession to build a railway through the Transvaal to connect with a line through Bechuanaland and the mining district of German South-West Africa and so on to the Atlantic coast, and a proposal was made lately to the Transvaal Government. The news of this purely private enterprise may have come lately in some way to the knowledge of the British Government, in such a form as to arouse suspicion against us.
If, after careful enquiry, you come to the conclusion that the fact that German capitalists are pushing this Transvaal railway concession with the Transvaal Government has really aroused Lord Salisbury's suspicions and contributed to the British Dvernment's attitude of refusal in the Samoa affair, you will explain the facts of the case so as to remove all further misunderstanding and say that the Imperial Government sets no store on obtaining such a railway concession in itself, but that it is purely a question of private German enterprise as is often observable elsewhere, especially in England. We shall be satisfied if we are assured that Mr. Rhodes' railway across South Africa is certainly to be carried through German territory and on to the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, as was settled in the latest agreement with Mr. Davis, Mr. Rhodes' representative. Please say also that we should unfailingly proceed with the ratification of the East African Telegraph agreement with Mr. Cecil Rhodes, as soon as the consent of the Chartered Company and of the British Government, which are required for the agreement, is in our hands. Mr. Davis is now in London for the purpose of obtaining this consent.
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Senator Ted Cruz calls for hearing to expand concealed carry laws to military posts
Tyler, Texas (KETK) — The issue of guns off the battlefield for our U.S. military service men and woman has been debated before. In the past five years two separate mass shootings at Ft. Hood have claimed the lives of 17 people. This is sparking debate again among lawmakers.
U.S. Senator, Ted Cruz (R-TX) has called a congressional hearing with the Senate Armed Forces Committee to discuss expanding concealed carry laws to military bases, including soldiers and their family members. Cruz is receiving some push back from Washington, argument involving mental illness among our military men and women. Some say allowing concealed weapons on base would only pose more risk to our soldiers at home, potentially putting a firearm in the hands of a mentally ill soldier.
East Texas Navy veteran, David Dan served from 2001 to 2005, Dan has been stationed on Naval bases in California, he tells KETK News, "If they've been trained with that weapon, they should be fully allowed to carry it, otherwise you're really not putting your trust in that person, you know. It's kind of a slap in the face to me," Dan said, this shouldn't even be a debate, "I think they should be able to carry concealed on base, I'm actually surprised that that's even question considering that we are serving and protecting the country you would think that the training that they have would be sufficient enough to trust them with that weapon."
U.S. Army Reservist, Robert Devan tell KETK News, more armed soldiers on base could curb crimes like the recent Ft. Hood massacre from happening again, "You conceal carry to protect yourself but more importantly the people around you." Devan said, "Guns don't cause crime they are going to prevent crime."
Dan said he's happy Senator Cruz is bringing up this topic once again to leaders in Washington, "It should be brought up in all areas of conversation. This is topic that has a lot of pros and a lot of cons, and when you have that you definitely have an issue that should be discussed extensively."
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the history of melancholia
includes all of us.
me, I writhe in dirty sheets
while staring at blue walls
and nothing.
I have gotten so used to melancholia
I greet it like an old
I will now do 15 minutes of grieving
for the lost redhead,
I tell the gods.
I do it and feel quite bad
quite sad,
then I rise
even though nothing
is solved.
that's what I get for kicking
religion in the ass.
I should have kicked the redhead
in the ass
where her brains and her bread and
butter are
at ...
but, no, I've felt sad
about everything:
the lost redhead was just another
smash in a lifelong
loss ...
I listen to drums on the radio now
and grin.
there is something wrong with me
HERE, ever since you went abroad,
If there be change no change I see:
I only walk our wonted road,
The road is only walk'd by me.
Yes; I forgot; a change there is--
Was it of that you bade me tell?
I catch at times, at times I miss
The sight, the tone, I know so well.
Only two months since you stood here?
Two shortest months? Then tell me why
Voices are harsher than they were,
And tears are longer ere they dry.
I have lain in the sun
I have toil'd as I might,
I have thought as I would,
And now it is night.
My bed full of sleep,
My heart full of content
For friends that I met
The way that I went.
I welcome fatigue
While frenzy and care
Like thin summer clouds
Go melting in air.
To dream as I may
And awake when I will
With the song of the birds
And the sun on the hill.
Or death - were it death -
To what would I wake
Who loved in my home
All life for its sake?
What good have I wrought?
I laugh to have learned
That joy cannot come
Unless it be earned;
For a happier lot
Than God giveth me
It never hath been
Nor ever shall be.
Since now from woodland mist and flooded clay
I am fled beside the steep Devonian shore,
Nor stand for welcome at your gothic door,
'Neath the fair tower of Magdalen and May,
Such tribute, Warren, as fond poets pay
For generous esteem, I write, not more
Enhearten'd than my need is, reckoning o'er
My life-long wanderings on the heavenly way:
But well-befriended we become good friends,
Well-honour'd honourable; and all attain
Somewhat by fathering what fortune sends.
I bid your presidency a long reign,
True friend; and may your praise to greater ends
Aid better men than I, nor me in vain.
When Death to either shall come,—
I pray it be first to me,—
Be happy as ever at home,
If so, as I wish, it be.
Possess thy heart, my own;
And sing to the child on thy knee,
Or read to thyself alone
The songs that I made for thee.
While yet we wait for spring, and from the dry
And blackening east that so embitters March,
Well-housed must watch grey fields and meadows parch,
And driven dust and withering snowflake fly;
Already in glimpses of the tarnish'd sky
The sun is warm and beckons to the larch,
And where the covert hazels interarch
Their tassell'd twigs, fair beds of primrose lie.
Beneath the crisp and wintry carpet hid
A million buds but stay their blossoming;
And trustful birds have built their nests amid
The shuddering boughs, and only wait to sing
Till one soft shower from the south shall bid,
And hither tempt the pilgrim steps of spring.
The day begins to droop,--
Its course is done:
But nothing tells the place
Of the setting sun.
The hazy darkness deepens,
And up the lane
You may hear, but cannot see,
The homing wain.
An engine pants and hums
In the farm hard by:
Its lowering smoke is lost
In the lowering sky.
The soaking branches drip,
And all night through
The dropping will not cease
In the avenue.
A tall man there in the house
Must keep his chair:
He knows he will never again
Breathe the spring air:
His heart is worn with work;
He is giddy and sick
If he rise to go as far
As the nearest rick:
He thinks of his morn of life,
His hale, strong years;
And braves as he may the night
Of darkness and tears.
Belov'd of all to whom that Muse is dear
Who hid her spirit of rapture from the Greek,
Whereby our art excelleth the antique,
Perfecting formal beauty to the ear;
Thou that hast been in England many a year
The interpreter who left us nought to seek,
Making Beethoven's inmost passion speak,
Bringing the soul of great Sebastian near.
Their music liveth ever, and 'tis just
That thou, good Joachim, so high thy skill,
Rank (as thou shalt upon the heavenly hill)
Laurel'd with them, for thy ennobling trust
Remember'd when thy loving hand is still
And every ear that heard thee stopt with dust.
How fares it, friend, since I by Fate annoy'd
Left the old home in need of livelier play
For body and mind? How fare, this many a day,
The stubborn thews and ageless heart of Floyd?
If not too well with country sport employ'd,
Visit my flock, the breezy hill that they
Choose for their fold; and see, for thence you may,
From rising walls all roofless yet and void,
The lovely city, thronging tower and spire,
The mind of the wide landscape, dreaming deep,
Grey-silvery in the vale; a shrine where keep
Memorian hopes their pale celestial fire:
Like man's immortal conscience of desire,
The spirit that watcheth in me ev'n in my sleep.
Brothers in blood! They who this wrong began
To wreck our commonwealth, will rue the day
When first they challenged freeman to the fray,
And with the Briton dared the American.
Now are we pledged to win the Rights of man:
Labour and Justice now shall have their way,
And in a League of Peace -- God grant we may --
Transform the earth, not patch up the old plan.
Sure is our hope since he who led your nation
Spake for mankind, and ye arose in awe
Of that high call to work the world's salvation;
Clearing your minds of all estrangling blindness
In the vision of Beauty and the Spirit's law,
Freedom and Honour and sweet Lovingkindness.
When my love was away,
Full three days were not sped,
I caught my fancy astray
Thinking if she were dead,
And I alone, alone:
It seem'd in my misery
In all the world was none
Ever so lone as I.
I wept; but it did not shame
Nor comfort my heart: away
I rode as I might, and came
To my love at close of day.
The sight of her still'd my fears,
My fairest-hearted love:
And yet in her eyes were tears:
Which when I question'd of,
'O now thou art come,' she cried,
''Tis fled: but I thought to-day
I never could here abide,
If thou wert longer away.'
Awake, my heart, to be loved, awake, awake!
The darkness silvers away, the morn doth break,
It leaps in the sky: unrisen lustres slake
The o'ertaken moon. Awake, O heart, awake!
She too that loveth awaketh and hopes for thee:
Her eyes already have sped the shades that flee,
Already they watch the path thy feet shall take:
Awake, O heart, to be loved, awake, awake!
And if thou tarry from her, - if this could be, -
She cometh herself, O heart, to be loved, to thee;
For thee would unashamed herself forsake:
Awake, to be loved, my heart, awake, awake!
Awake! The land is scattered with light, and see,
Uncanopied sleep is flying from field and tree;
And blossoming boughs of April in laughter shake:
Awake, O heart, to be loved, awake, awake!
Lo, all things wake and tarry and look for thee:
She looketh and saith, "O sun, now bring him to me.
Come, more adored, O adored, for his coming's sake,
And awake, my heart, to be loved, awake, awake!"
In autumn moonlight, when the white air wan
Is fragrant in the wake of summer hence,
'Tis sweet to sit entranced, and muse thereon
In melancholy and godlike indolence:
When the proud spirit, lull'd by mortal prime
To fond pretence of immortality,
Vieweth all moments from the birth of time,
All things whate'er have been or yet shall be.
And like the garden, where the year is spent,
The ruin of old life is full of yearning,
Mingling poetic rapture of lament
With flowers and sunshine of spring's sure returning;
Only in visions of the white air wan
By godlike fancy seized and dwelt upon.
Unflinching hero, watchful to foresee
And face thy country's peril wheresoe'er,
Directing war and peace with equal care,
Till by long toil ennobled thou wert he
Whom England call'd and bade "Set my arm free
To obey my will and save my honour fair," --
What day the foe presumed on her despair
And she herself had trust in none but thee:
Among Herculean deeds the miracle
That mass'd the labour of ten years in one
Shall be thy monument. Thy work was done
Ere we could thank thee; and the high sea swell
Surgeth unheeding where thy proud ship fell
By the lone Orkneys, at the set of sun.
The sickness of desire, that in dark days
Looks on the imagination of despair,
Forgetteth man, and stinteth God his praise;
Nor but in sleep findeth a cure for care.
Incertainty that once gave scope to dream
Of laughing enterprise and glory untold,
Is now a blackness that no stars redeem,
A wall of terror in a night of cold.
Fool! thou that hast impossibly desired
And now impatiently despairest, see
How nought is changed: Joy's wisdom is attired
Splendid for others' eyes if not for thee:
Not love or beauty or youth from earth is fled:
If they delite thee not, 'tis thou art dead.
My delight and thy delight
Walking, like two angels white,
In the gardens of the night:
My desire and thy desire
Twining to a tongue of fire,
Leaping live, and laughing higher:
Thro' the everlasting strife
In the mystery of life.
Love, from whom the world begun,
Hath the secret of the sun.
Love can tell, and love alone,
Whence the million stars were strewn,
Why each atom knows its own,
How, in spite of woe and death,
Gay is life, and sweet is breath:
This he taught us, this we knew,
Happy in his science true,
Hand in hand as we stood
'Neath the shadows of the wood,
Heart to heart as we lay
In the dawning of the day.
Beautiful must be the mountains whence ye come,
And bright in the fruitful valleys the streams, wherefrom
Ye learn your song:
Where are those starry woods? O might I wander there,
Among the flowers, which in that heavenly air
Bloom the year long!
Nay, barren are those mountains and spent the streams:
Our song is the voice of desire, that haunts our dreams,
A throe of the heart,
Whose pining visions dim, forbidden hopes profound,
No dying cadence nor long sigh can sound,
For all our art.
Alone, aloud in the raptured ear of men
We pour our dark nocturnal secret; and then,
As night is withdrawn
From these sweet-springing meads and bursting boughs of May,
Dream, while the innumerable choir of day
Welcome the dawn.
Sense with keenest edge unusèd,
Yet unsteel'd by scathing fire;
Lovely feet as yet unbruisèd
On the ways of dark desire;
Sweetest hope that lookest smiling
O'er the wilderness defiling!
Why such beauty, to be blighted
By the swarm of foul destruction?
Why such innocence delighted,
When sin stalks to thy seduction?
All the litanies e'er chaunted
Shall not keep thy faith undaunted.
I have pray'd the sainted Morning
To unclasp her hands to hold thee;
From resignful Eve's adorning
Stol'n a robe of peace to enfold thee;
With all charms of man's contriving
Arm'd thee for thy lonely striving.
Me too once unthinking Nature,
—Whence Love's timeless mockery took me,—
Fashion'd so divine a creature,
Yea, and like a beast forsook me.
I forgave, but tell the measure
Of her crime in thee, my treasure.
So sweet love seemed that April morn,
When first we kissed beside the thorn,
So strangely sweet, it was not strange
We thought that love could never change.
But I can tell--let truth be told--
That love will change in growing old;
Though day by day is naught to see,
So delicate his motions be.
And in the end 'twill come to pass
Quite to forget what once he was,
Nor even in fancy to recall
The pleasure that was all in all.
His little spring, that sweet we found,
So deep in summer floods is drowned,
I wonder, bathed in joy complete,
How love so young could be so sweet.
Angel spirits of sleep,
White-robed, with silver hair,
In your meadows fair,
Where the willows weep,
And the sad moonbeam
On the gliding stream
Writes her scatter'd dream:
Angel spirits of sleep,
Dancing to the weir
In the hollow roar
Of its waters deep;
Know ye how men say
That ye haunt no more
Isle and grassy shore
With your moonlit play;
That ye dance not here,
White-robed spirits of sleep,
All the summer night
Threading dances light?
I visited the place where we last met.
Nothing was changed, the gardens were well-tended,
The fountains sprayed their usual steady jet;
There was no sign that anything had ended
And nothing to instruct me to forget.
The thoughtless birds that shook out of the trees,
Singing an ecstasy I could not share,
Played cunning in my thoughts. Surely in these
Pleasures there could not be a pain to bear
Or any discord shake the level breeze.
It was because the place was just the same
That made your absence seem a savage force,
For under all the gentleness there came
An earthquake tremor: Fountain, birds and grass
Were shaken by my thinking of your name.


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Flat tire
Well, after many years of trying to change those leetle tars on riding lawn mowers, i have decided to allow a large tire seller to install a new tar,as the old one is bad, and flat! It ain't worth my effort to change them! NO SIR! Times have changed!
I took the front tar from my riding mower, wheel and all, and for $21 and change, they mounted a brand new tar, and tomorrow i'll be out there showing it to the leaves in my yards!
Over the years, folks would bring flat tars for me to fix. NO! Take them to the big tar store!
I use Champion brand some times found at Walmart. It is liquid. To be successful you need to remove the wheel, lay it on each side alternately and bounce the wheel around, roll, to distribute the sealant, it doesn't just magically fly to where required.
Walt Conner
Gee, Walt, you could have fooled me! Why, i thought there were little gremlins inside the can, who slid out and into the tire, and they had leetle brooms to push the sealant around, coating the inside of the tire, and sealing the leaks! Guess i was mis-informed. Thanks for the information. Cheers: Rusty J.
Gee, I thought any LT tyre was required to have green slim in it. I like the can where you just screw it on and it blows the tire up. I even by the tubes with green slim in them so I don't have to worry about flats or even putting air in the tyre!. My 1990 LT still has orginal tyres Full of fix a flat, then green slim when I removed the and reversed them for that new tire look! works for me on all the Tires, tyres, tars.


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The CIO Tech Poll: Economic Outlook
The CIO Tech Poll: Economic Outlook study was conducted among heads of IT to gauge how current economic conditions are impacting IT spending plans in the U.S., as well as which technology areas are seeing budget increases in the coming year.
Key Findings Include:
- IT budgets will continue to show overall increase in the coming year.
- While spending in some technology areas is forecasted to remain flat, mobile, outsourced IT services (including cloud) and hardware will see increasing budgets.
- New project spending is also on the rise, with enterprises focusing on the customer.
- Technology budgets are primarily controlled by IT and when other departments do purchase technology, IT is usually involved on many levels.
The CIO Tech Poll: Economic Outlook was conducted through the CIO Forum on LinkedIn and the CIO customer database. Results are based on 209 respondents who indicated they are the top IT executive at their company or business unit.
For more information on this study, view the excerpt below. To receive a PDF of the research contact Sue Yanovitch.


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Chicago Blackhawks post-game audio
Post-game audio from the Hawks dressing room.
Post-game audio from the Hawks dressing room.
Carcillo gets six games.
Post-game audio from the Hawks dressing room.
Hawks post-game audio.
This morning in the Western Conference, Marian Hossa is finding his game, Valtteri Filppula has cast removed, Mikael Samuelsson avoids media after yesterday's game, the importance of Joffrey Lupul and Bobby Ryan in Anaheim and much more after the jump.
The Chicago Blackhawks came up harder and faster than any other National Hockey League team last season. After missing the playoffs the previous six years, the Hawks racked up 104 points (good for 6th place overall) en route to a respectable Western Conference finals appearance against the powerhouse Detroit Red Wings. Individual breakout performances (Kris […]
Chris Chelios may be playing in the Olympics for Team USA…I am kidding, but he has been suiting up for Team USA to help fill the spot for injured defenseman Paul Martin. I love that Chelios wants to play hockey at his age and won't give it up. Give the guy full credit because this […]
With the ouster of Patrick Marleau as Sharks captain, Mark Purdy of the San Jose Mercury News feels that Dan Boyle will be next in line for the C. Kevin Paul Dupont of the Boston Globe writes that its best for Patrick Kane to move on from the cab incident. Though Messier's heart belongs in […]


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Records: Ohio officer attacked before she shot ex-boyfriend
March 24, 2015
MUNROE FALLS, Ohio (AP) — Court records say an Ohio policewoman and her former boyfriend were struggling over a gun before she shot and killed him after he broke into her suburban Akron home. more »»
Some Ohio cities uncertain about traffic camera use
March 24, 2015
CINCINNATI (AP) — Some Ohio cities are still using traffic cameras while others have shut them off amid uncertainty over a court ruling on a new law. more »»
Leaders expect House passage of bill helping Medicare docs
March 24, 2015
WASHINGTON (AP) — House leaders predicted Tuesday that their chamber will approve a bipartisan compromise this week preventing deep cuts in physicians' Medicare fees and extending health care... more »»
Martin Sheen to receive honorary degree from Ohio college
March 24, 2015
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — The University of Dayton will give actor Martin Sheen an honorary degree in recognition of his activism for peace, social justice and human right. more »»
Maintenance, refueling outage planned at Cook nuclear plant
March 24, 2015
LAKE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — An outage for maintenance and refueling is planned for unit 2 at the Donald C. Cook Nuclear Plant in southwestern Michigan.
The Herald-Palladium of S. more »»
Ohio county seeks grant for body cameras for deputies
March 24, 2015
CLEVELAND (AP) — Ohio's most populous county is applying for hundreds of thousands of dollars from the federal government to pay for body cameras for its sheriff's deputies. more »»
11-year-old killed in west-central Ohio crash
March 24, 2015
BELLEFONTAINE, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio State Highway Patrol says an 11-year-old boy was killed in a west-central Ohio crash.
The crash occurred around 5 p.m. Monday on U.S. more »»
Ohio Medicaid drops 4,200 providers in error after glitch
March 24, 2015
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Department of Medicaid says it erroneously sent about 4,200 letters to doctors and health workers last week notifying them they had been dropped from the Medicaid... more »»
2 sentences next in University of Toledo point-shaving case
March 24, 2015
DETROIT (AP) — A judge will order the first sentences in a decade-old point-shaving scandal at the University of Toledo. more »»
Ohio woman faces prison for severe neglect of mother
March 24, 2015
BELLEFONTAINE, Ohio (AP) — A 77-year-old Ohio woman likely is facing prison time after admitting that she caused her mother's death by severe neglect. more »»
Wrights' descendant to testify in Ohio on 1st-in-flight flap
March 24, 2015
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A descendant of the Wright brothers is headed to the Ohio Statehouse to defend the Ohio aviators' place in history as the first to make a successful airplane flight. more »»
Eyeing 2016, Kasich faces another Bush in GOP primary
March 24, 2015
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Ohio Gov. John Kasich knows history could repeat itself should he challenge former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush in the Republicans' crowded 2016 field. more »»
Ohio committee slated to vote on 'heartbeat' abortion bill
March 24, 2015
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio legislative panel has scheduled a possible vote on a proposal to effectively ban abortions after the first fetal heartbeat is detected, which can come as early as si... more »»
Vote expected Tuesday on Lake Erie algae legislation
March 24, 2015
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio lawmakers are expecting to finalize new rules for farmers that are designed to cut down the toxic algae in Lake Erie
Members of the Ohio House's agriculture... more »»
Ohio AAA auto clubs oppose proposed speed-limit boost
March 24, 2015
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Auto club AAA says it's against a proposal to boost the speed limit to 75 mph on the Ohio Turnpike and rural interstate highways. more »»
Smoking likely led to fire that killed Ohio woman
March 24, 2015
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A Columbus fire official says careless smoking was likely the cause of the apartment fire last week that resulted in the death of a 55-year-old woman. more »»
PUCO probing weekend house explosion in suburban Columbus
March 24, 2015
UPPER ARLINGTON, Ohio (AP) — The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio is investigating the suburban Columbus house explosion last weekend that also left a half dozen surrounding homes temporarily... more »»
Proposals would extend rape cases' statute of limitations
March 24, 2015
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Lawmakers are scheduled to vote this week on proposals to extend the 20-year statute of limitations for rape and sexual battery. more »»
2014-15 AP Division I boys All-Ohio teams
March 23, 2015
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The 2014-15 Associated Press Division I All-Ohio boys basketball team, selections based on the recommendations of a media panel:
FIRST TEAM: Xavier... more »»
2014-15 AP Division II boys All-Ohio teams
March 23, 2015
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The 2014-15 Associated Press Division II All-Ohio boys basketball team, selections based on the recommendations of a media panel:
FIRST TEAM: Luke... more »»


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