In regara to the future settlement in South Africa Lord
Salisbury stowed once again that wide and liberal mind which he always brings to the solution of great problems. Without committing himself to any rash or hasty scheme, even in outline, he showed that While placing all South Africa within the Empire, we mean to reinodel the Governments in accordance with those traditions of free Colonial self- government which have done such great things for us in the past, and on which, in fact, the Empire is founded. "Whenever," said Lord Salisbury, "we are victorions we shall consult the vast interests which are committed to our care. We shall consult the vast duties which it lies upon us to perform, and, taking counsel of the uniform traditions of our Colonial government and of the moderation and equal justice to all races of men which it . has been our uniform practice to observe, I have no doubt that we shall so arrange that the issue of this conflict will confer good government upon the area where it rages, and will give a security that is sorely needed for the future from the 1'4 - currence of such dangers." In other words, though it will be a settlement of South Africa within, and not outside, the Empire, it will be a liberal settlement.
