New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-09-20

the Klondike, and in every respect the
Boer government has been more liberal
to these British miners than is the gov
sernment Of British Columbia to Ameri-
an miners, three thousand Of whom have
been driven from that province and their
mining claims cunfscated within the
last two years.
The British government made de-
mand upon the Beers that the British
subjects in the Transvaal be permit
ted to vote without surrendering allegl-
ance to Great Britain. This was OF. cour Sc
refused. To avoid conflict, however.
President Kruger offered to naturalize
these foreigners on five years residence,
even making that retroactive, in case
they would consent to bear arms for the
Boer republic on the same terms that
the native citizens of the Republic did.
This offer too was rejected. As a matter
of fact not one in ten of these Outland-
ers cares for the franchise as they know
that their votes would be controlled by
the big mining syndicates for which
they work, and which want to secure the
repeal Of the moderate taxes which they
now pay. But the excuse has been sufH
cient for the Tory government of Great
Britain to make all preparations for war
and threaten the Transvaal with annihi
lation.
War seems inevitable. But the out.
come may be the Independent Republic
of all South Africa. In South Africa as a
whole the Beers are in majority. Their
sympathies are with their brothers in the
Transvaal. As to the latter. they are
we'll armed and equipped, and as a
body, the most remarkable rifemen in
the world. They have had three wars
with Great Britain, and in each have
demonstrated such an overwhelming su-
pericrlty that it will take odds of at
least five to one to overcome them. The
Transvaal's struggle for liberty and in
dependence deserves the sympathy of
every liberty loving American, but natu-
rally the sympathy Of Americas Tory
Administration, which is trying to crush
out liberty i'll the Philippines is with the
Tory Administration of Great Britain.
The Liberal Party of Great Britain and
the Democratic Party in the United
States are opposed to land grabbing and
aggression wherever they occur.
PHILIPPINE SITUATION.
The Administration is not so anxious
to discuss the Philippine situation as a
few weeks ago. Mckinley didn't men,
tion Philippines at the Philadelphia
meeting Of the G. A. R. He went over
to try to save his Commissioner of Pen.
sions from being condemned but failed.
Commissioner Evans has been letting
his pension examiners ask the widows of
veterans whether or not they are lead
ing immoral lives and naturally the
veterans like neither the insult nor the
insultor.
Facts are constantly coming to ight
which show that the Am erican military
forces in the islands were the aggressors
from the beginning. An American SOL
der fired the first shot. A Filipino SOL
dier was the fist victim. The next day
Aguinaldo asked for truce and for ad-
ditlonal safeguards to prevent collisions.
Gen. Otis reply was demand for un-
conditional surrender, followed by an
immediate advance of the American lines
and the war began.
Commissioner Schurman claims that
the American forces are now occupying
more territory in the islands than Spain
ever did. This is untrue, but were it 9TH
erwise, it would emphasize the spurious
character of the deed by which McKin-
ley claims the possession of the islands.
We have already sunk $4,000, 900 in
this shameful contest. That sum would
have built the Nicaragua canal, or a
Trans-continental llne from the Atlantic
to the Pacific. 1t would have erected
$4,000 public buildings in thousand
towns and cities; and the end IS not in
sight.
SUNDAYS EXCURSION.
Over Six Hundred from New Ulm Participate.