The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-31
FOR A MASS MEETING
TO GIVE SUPPORT TO PRO-
BOER ASSEMBLY
PEOPLES CHURCH THE PLACE

Develops Considerable Enthusi-
nsm, and Awnkens EIOGucnce In
HehnIf of the TransvaaI People
Louis Nash Says That Newspapers
Should Assume the Aggressive.
AT meeting held in the rooms Of the
| Commercial club last evening, plans were
made for a pro Boer mass meeting to be
| held at the Peoples church next Satur>
! day evening, Jan 6. The following were
appointed TO serve as a general COM
rnttee, whose function 1t will lie 70 give
moral and substantial support to the
meeting and occupy places on me plat
form en- the evening. when the fireworks
are to be let off. John w Willis, S. P.
Child, Louis Nash, G. ID. O,Brien, George
c. Lambert, NJ: W. Cole, DR.. Jus.us
Ohage. w. H. Dunbar, John B. Pewters,
II. Lohr5auer, James Regain, o. II.
/ O'Neill, W. S. Smit. f. w. Bergmeer,
! Howard Sanders, Dr.. MarkOe, J. D.
! o Brien, R. A. Hoyt, Eli: Norton, G. p
| FTedrichs, Louis Koch, G.rVon der Fink,
H ]. Nienstedt, j. B. Hartsinck, r. &c.
| Workman, ]. r. Patnode, A Paradis, F..
| r. Hays, G. E. Kenny, John Knuppe.
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discussion which followed the statement
poses for. which the meeting was called.
| w. Slwart Smit was named as secretary
Theo F. Koch, on behalf of the COM
mittee on halls, appointed by the eX-
| ccurVe committee, reported that a care
full canvass had been made and the COM
| mittee had decided upon the Peoples
| church at $l25 rent for the evening. The
Central church could not be secured for
! the purpose, and the Auditorium could not
be made comfortable in winter weather.
The report was adopted and the contract
MADE for the church was approved.
! F. w. Bergmeier, for the committee on
music, stated that ne could secure the
services of Seibert's band for $50 and that
! Mr.. Seibert was ing to contribute $40,
making the he, cost for the music so.
c. d. O'Brier suggested that 500 post
Crs be printed inasmuch as none of the
papers except the G b were willing
| to print notices of the meeting. f. w.
Bergmeier thought the papers We're al
ways willing TO print the news.
Collection was taken up to defray the
| expenses of the meeting, which was start
! &c by a contribution Of SO from Mr..
Koch Very nearly 5000 was received A
committee on finance, ot-sisting of DE-.
! Markoe, w. S. Snit, A H: O'Neill ard
! additional funds that would be neces-
| sary. 1t was decided to invite the Gle gy-
rlcn of the city and c. d. O'Brien~put in
| that it might be well to send the Rev.
! Mr. Riley, of Minneapolis, an inv ton.
| He was fearful that there would not be
! a large attendance, and DR.. Ohage as
sured him that number of important
| engagements had been Cancelled for that
| evening and several marriages postponed
| DR.. Markoe thought it a good plan to
| have the band parade the streets Satur-
| day afternoon. The band was so in
| structed. DR.. Ohage believed that the:
church should be decorated fully in keep
| ing with the occasion with the American
| and Boer flag, and some one called out,
"a green one, too
Mr.. O'Brien said the Beers defense of
their country was being watched with
breathless suspense In Holland The
workingmen of that country had denied
themselves their tobacco and the women
their coffee that they might lend assist
ance to their brothers in the Transvaal.
Therefore, he thought that 1t should be
given publicity that ladies would be well
come at the meeting. DR.. Ohage sug
gested, in that event, the platform en-
larged. Judge Willis said the cause of
the Beers was very simple one. They
were fighting for Justice, and he thought
| that it was in accordance with American
| principles that We sympathize with them
| in their valiant defense of home and
country. Rufus A. Hoyt read a poem of
| interest upon the subject of Boer liberty.
! G. e. Kenny read a letter from Rev
Joseph OHare to a member of parlia-
| ment upon the nature of the Boer people,
based on his twelve years experience in
| the Transvaal. Judge Willis further
stated that the sentiment was so strong
| in Holland that the ministry was in dan
iO0nrASSiOO IA
| it did not represent the sentiment of the
people. Theodore T. Koch reported that
| $500 had been collected for the Red Cross
| society. Louis Koch made an eloquent
| speech, which aroused demonstratiye en-
! thusiasm.
/ Louis Nash made an attack upon St
| Paul newspapers for not assuming the
| aggressive in the cause OF the Beers. AS
| an Englshman, a dead Boer was as
| much to him as a dead Eng1ishman. He
| believed with Burns, that "A mans a
| man for a that" He considered the re-
cent editorial in an evening paper to the
! effect that the Catholics sided with the
| Beers because they hated England di-
| rect slap in the face. He believed that
| Ireland espoUSeG the cause of the Beers
| for their cause was q common one with
| their cause, for which they fought for
| many years. Louis Nash read the follow
( ing communication that appeared in the
| Marlborough and Swinton Times Of
! Dec. /:
Sir: As an old contributor to your COL
| umns, l shall be glad if you will allow me
ITO raise my feeble protest against this
shameful Ubiquitous and bl0od-thirSty
| war. Sir, it seems to me nothing less
! than mOnStrouS that at the closing DAYS
| of the century the boom of English guns
should be belching forth death and eX-
termination to a fine race of men, 1000
miles from our shores; men who have la
bored hard for peaceful settlement of
/ the questions at issue, and a race of men
the British have harried and hunted and
| robbed, driving them hitler and thither
for the last hundred years, and are now
deliberately forcing war upon them al
most before England's representative has
| rope in favor of peace, and the substitu-
| ton Of arbitration for war. And yet the
| English government deliberately rejected
! the Boer proposal for arbitration, and
| are now going forward with a war in
| which thousands of lives are lost In spite
| Of the fact that, after picking the quar-
| rel, and after few months negotiations
the main question in dispute has narrow
ed down to two years franchise. Does
any sane man seriously argue that is
sufficient cause for war? Can any
thoughtful person calmly assert we ought
to enter a war which may cost $50 010 600
and perhaps 5000 to 10000 British lives
in order that a few thousand men-not
English citizens, because when they ac-
cept citizenship in the Transvaal they
cease to be English citiZens-may have a
vote after five years-Chamberlan' de-
mand-instead of seVen-as offered by the
Transvaal government! 1t should be re-
membered cur interference at all in the
internal affairs of the South African re-