Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1899-11-29
the BoER WAR.
From the London (England) Truth:

From the London (England) Truth:
The last few weeks have dispelled
two illusions. First. The Uitlanders
who were wage-earners are now known
not to have wished for our Interior
ence to rid them of their political
grievances. Many have come home,
and have protested against the notion
that they were not fairly satisfied with
their lot. AS for the capitalists and
the stock exchange spectators, they
at once betook themselves to Ravens
of safety as soon as war was serious
ly contemplated. Some are enjoying
their ill-gotten wealth here; and seek
ing to increase it by "bulling" or
''bearing" the shares Of their COM
panies on the stock exchange; most Of
them are at Cape Town, lavishly
squandering money at. the hotels,
whilst their wives, arrayed in costly
vestments and weighed down with jew
els, are feasting, dancing, and making
merry. The Uitlander residuum is in
the Cape Colony, in Natal, and in
Portuguese South Africa, cursing the
day when they were trapped into be-
ing made the jackals Of Mr.. Rhodes,
Mr.. Chamberlain, and the capitalists,
and more or less dependent on charity
for their subsistence. A considerable
number of them are at Durham, where,
according to the press kilograms,
soldiers and police have always to be
on the watch to prevent these inter-
esting exiles from marauding. AS for
fighting for their grievances, the idea
seems to have occurred to = very few
indeed Of those who insisted that they
were being treated as Hottentots. The
fighting they have left to Tommy At
kins. The illusion of the gallant,
downtrodden Uitlander has vanished
into thin air. Whatever any one may
think of the war, all agree that more
contemplate crew than these capita
lists, Spectators, and loafers, on be-
half of whom we are shedding the
blood of our brave soldiers, does not
exist on the face Of the globe.
2. We had been told that the Beers
were beings almost too vile for civil:
ization to tolerate. Their religion
was the most horrible hypocrisy.
They were corrupt beyond anything
ever known in the annals OF corrup-
ton. They were more ignorant than
the lowest of savages. Their conduct
towards Englishmen was unmitigated
rufianism. They hated US, they de-
spised us, and they rejoiced at every
opportunity to give evidence of these
sentiments. To conquer them would
be an easy task, for they were towards
at heart, and they had 80 degenerated
In the last few years that even their
old skill in shooting was thing Of
the past. And now? Their plan of
campaign is extolled by our own ex-
perts. They fight so desperately that
our soldiers pitted against them are
the first to defend them against the
calumnies of their civilian traducers.
Our war correspondents, gone forth
to curse, witness to their chiv alrous
conduct towards every Englishman
who falls into their hands. Their off,
cial bulletins of the engagements in
which they have taken part are tenn
perate, remarkable for their accuracy,
and for their absence of all Boosting.
When our captured officers were
brought into Pretoria, not a voice of
exultation was raised, but they were
received in. respectful silence. The
members of the Volksraad, who it was
said were mere politicians greedy of
gold, and ready to let others incur
the risks Of war, are fighting in the
forefront. Even those who reviled
them, and sought to give currency to
the tales told about them by the Co.'S
mopolitan crew OF capitalists that had
waxed rich by company mongerihg,
are obliged to admit that they were
deceived, whilst every, Englishman
recognizes that those ru1aaply, cor
rupt, cowardly, staggering Beers are
courteous and brave men. Illusion
No. 2 has been dispelled, as has illu-
sion No. l. ~'& s. = ~. >i>t..! s IS 4.
:. And 80 will illusion No. 8 disap.
pear. Enelishmen are fair-minded.
They may be fooled, but it is seldom
for long. What we are fighting for
has been rendered more difficult than.
ever to understand since Mr., Cham
berlain's speeches in the House Of
Commons, All that can be distin-