Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-12
lombard GOVERNOR POINTER
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Howard, who confessed that he could no.
understand why one not a resident Of the
city had been chosen for that duty. Next
to the love Of God. home and country was
sympathy for the oppressed Of other lands,
and It was emiuently fit and right that the
governor should preside at this meeting.
Governor Poynter expressed eradication
at the dimensions Of the audience and COM
mended its object, as he was in h ar,y
sympathy with the Beers. Every nation '
he said, has the right to establish It's
own form OF government. This is one OF
the fundamental principles OF this republic.
| | have no sympathy with the sicklv seutt-
mentalism being fostered in favor OF he
mother country, on account of Anglo Saxon
J kinship. There should be no entangl ns
alliance with Great Britain. / cannot
/ forget in the midst of this sentimentalism
for England that it is the same country
| that in 1776 sought to restrict American
1 liberty, that another conflict was necessary,
! in 1912, to teach England proper respect
/ for this then young republic and tha. In
| 1861 England lent her support to those who
were seeking to tear down our union. ing
! land has been always oppressive; nor can
we forget her oppression of one grand
people, the Irish. The only reason she Is
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because she sees an indication on the part
of this government to depart from those
great principles upon which this republic
was founded"
In closing he called for the resolutions,
which were presented by Frank Ransom, as
follows:
Resolved. that the demands of the British
government upon the people of the DNtch
republic were unjust and of such character
a N render compliance with them de-
structive of Boer independence;
That England had no right to suggest
state such as the Dutch republic;
That said state is free and independ-
ent sovereignty and as such has the right
to admit foreigners into i,s citizenship on
such terms as shall be deemed by i best
for the happiness of its people and the Sc
Curity of it's institutions, without consulta-
tion with other nations or interference from
them;
themselves into position so as to control the
republic it is now sought by the present
invasion to wrest from the Beers their free
| dom as a people and their sovereignty "A $
a nation. As England sought to claim the
gold fields of Venezuela by dispute oyer
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claim the rich gold fields Of the KlondilSe, so
| does 1t by a pretense against the laws of
the Dutch republic seek to wrest from that
| people their liberty and independence, if
necessary. in order to reach the gold fields
| of South Africa. In the extension of em-
! pire and greed for gold neither boundary
! lines nor laws are now or ever have been
! respected by 1t.
! is attempting to destroy government
| based on the consent of the governed and
will, If successful, set up in its stead a
colonial system against the will of the peO-
| pie of the Boer republic
As citizens of the United States believing
| in a republican form of government and
| the great principles set forth in our dec
/ laraton Of Independence, we turn in SYM
pathy to the people of the Dutch repub-
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! declare that as the Greeks defended Greek
liberty and Independence at Thermopylae
! against the hordes of Asiatic mercenaries
as the revolutionary fathers fought at
Bunker Hill for American independence
against the tyrannies of George III; as the
Cubans fought to throw off the despotic
power of the Spanish dynasty in Cuba, so
| do the people of the Dutch republic and
the Orange Free State fight against a for
| eign invader who seeks to destroy the
two republics. The people of the Dutch
republic and the orange Free state are
entitled from the United States OF America
and Its people that moral support that
comes from sympathy for people struggling
for freedom, and independence and right
against a despotc and heartess invader
seeking to enforce serfdom, tyranny and
wrong,
| lover of liberty. ... ..
Long live the Dutch republic and the
based upon the consent of the governed.
and success to those striving to throw off
the yoke that denies to a people the flsnl
to govern themselves according to their
own judgment
Resolved, That we enter emphatic pro-
test against any alliance expressed or
understood between the government of the
United States and that of Great Britain,
and we protest against any so-called "cour.
of Great Britain by our civil or military
authorities to the detriment of the heroic
people of the South African republics now
fighting for the same principles that the
American patriots fought for.
| Resolved. That we extend our thanks to
resolution in the United States senate eX
pressing the sympathy Of the. senate for
iics in the present conflict with England.
Speaks for the women.
Miss Fairbrother spoke as a representa-
tive of the Women's club and said that if
he Uprn 0ueen Victoria 81 10 would he pit her