The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-12-02
Reynolds Newspaper Opposed
to Anglo-Boer War.
PROTESTS AGAINST ENGLAND DRUNK
Awful Horrors Of Campaign are
Powerfully Pictured.

The following is a translation OF the
war song which was sung by the Beers
in their camps during the Majuba cam
paign:
Leave lis alone! Leave us alone!
You shall not rob us of our own;
We will be free! We will be free!
Our birtllright shall our standard be.
| Our fathers sweat, our fathers blood,
Have soaked the ground on which they
stood;
Our mothers tears, our mothers toll,
Have hallowed this our Afric soil.
This is Our land! This is our land!
Reclaimed by our fathers hand
Reclaimed once, we claim it now,
AS made a garden by our plow.
We ask, what has to us been left?
We will no longer be bereft!
For Fatherland and freedom dear,
| We die or live and vanquish here.
1t looks as if the ignorant and the
brutal who have been beguiled into
giving their support to what we have
described as the policy OF blood and
rapnc in the Transvaal were getting a
little ashamed OF themselves, says Reyn-
olds' Newspaper. And how could it be
otherwise? Deep i'll the heart of Eng
land there is q sense Of justice. The
misfortune is that Our people do not
read or think They will take pictur-
esque lies for truth. So many OF them
are busy playing football, gambling on
horse races, soaking in public houses.
or singing mechanical psalms to the
Jewish Jehovall-tlle God of Battles
that they have neither time nor inclina-
ton to follow the manifold turns and
twists of the intricate and overwhelm-
ing problems Of craftsmanship neces-
sarily connected with an empire which
holds in its clutches half Of the habit
able portions of this unit OF the plan
etary system.
That this widely-extended dominion
was gained mainly either by force or
fraud is truth which only want OF
knowledge, craft or hypocrisy can deny.
Our practice has been to steal and kill
in the name of the Jewish Jehovah
And to those who accept that Deity
there is perhaps a certain excuse, for
was not one Of His most frequent in
functions to the Chosen people" to go
forth and slay, leaving neither woman
nor child alive?
With these considerations we would
have no concern were it not that so
much of the public policy of this coun-
try is proclaimed to be based on the
Bible teachings. The State church,
which is part OF the government OF the
country, at a cost Of FLO 900 900, has
been offering up prayers for the Sue
cess of the British arms, on the ground
that the war for the stock-jobbing fra
ternity is pleasing to God. The Dutch
farmers, on the other hand, are, like
Cromwell, quoting these same old Jew
ish documents, as justification of the
slaughter of the invader.
| And how far hac this God OF Hosts
carried us? 1t has enabled us to de-
stroy the magnificent Maori race in
New Zealand, and to inoculate them
with loathsome diseases and intemper-
ate habits unknown to them before
| Under its influence we have almost de-
stroyed the Australian aborigines; the
Tasmanian entirely. We slaughtered
the Irish, and confscated their lands,
in the name OF Jehovah. Three hun
dred millions OF East Indians, now
scourged by famine and plague, are de-
MED constitutional rights, on the same
pretext. The bones OF 10000 Soudancsc
bleach the desert at the bidding OF this
God of Battles. Burmah, Africa, with
ersoever we come, the English sword
drips with the blood sacrifice to the
Hebrew divinity At home we open our
parliament with prayers to Him, and
then roam the world in search of fresh
victims. The Mohammedans had some
what similar traits. But whereas, Allah
was the god of the spirit; the British
Jehovah is the god of the stock ex-
change; in the view of these hypocrites,
kind of Monte Carlo deity.
Our heart yearns for the sacrifices
made to the Mammon-god of the Brit