The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-12-23
THE AMERICAN TRANsyAAL FUND.

We publish to-day a forcible appeal
Tor contributions to aid the widows and
orphans OF the brave Beers of the South
African republics who have fallen or
may fall in defending their beloved
countries from British invasion. Ac-
companyng the appeal was letter adj
dressed to the editor by George w. Van
Siclen, OF al Broadway, N. Y, the
treasurer OF the American Fund, who
truly said that "the citizens OF the South
African republic, and their noble allies,
the citizens OF the Orange Free State,
are entitled to the sympathy OF every
American"
The Irish Standard will be happy to
receive subscriptions for so worthy a
cause, and will forward the money to
MIR. Van Siclen, who will send formal
receipt to this paper, and also one to
each subscriber whose name and ad-
dress will appear i'll these columns. Mr..
Van Siclen is the representative OF the
Holland Society in this country, and a
few days ago he begged President Nc
kinley to urge arbitration upon Great
Britain, saying that he can act under
article OF the peace convention of
The Hague. 1t is not likely that the
little Napoleon OF Ohio, who is engaged
i'll similar war of conquest in Asia,
will use his good Offices in preventing
bloodshed in Africa. If he intervenes
at all it will be when he sees the
mother country" in imminent danger
OF humiliation. His sympathies go with
the Britons, and gladly would he aid
them if he dared. He will be ready to
act as peacemaker when Roberts and
Kitchener meet the fate Of Gatacre,
Mcthuen and Butler, but not before.
Then his services as mediator will be
unnecessary, and Kruger and Steyn
will tell him to mind his own business.
Britain just now would hardly enter
tain any proposal for ending the war,
and while her subjects at home and in
the colonies are willing to become tar
gets for Boer sfarpsl1ooters it would
be useless to talk peace to the humili-
ated jingoos When driven out OF At
RIGA as she was from America she will
repent that she ever forced this war
upon free people who will have either
liberty or death. There is every indi-
cation that the Beers will not be left
to fight the British empire unaided and
alone. The Negus Menclik has antici-
pated war with England for some time
and is contemplating the extension OF
a new Ethiopian empire to the Red Sea-
When he gets on the war path England
will be expelled, bag and baggage, from
the African continent forever. The
powerful monarch who subducd an Ital-
ian army OF 10000 is keeping close
eye on British reverscs in Natal and
Cape Colony, and now that Kitchener
is leaving the Soudan he may take it
into his royal pate to attack the Anglo
Egyptian forces and drive the free
hooters into the Nile.
In any event, the appeal in behalf OF
the Beers deserves immediate attention,
and we trust the readers of The Irish
Standard will respond generously and at
once. Every true American wishes sue
cess to the Beers. No one in this coun-
| try outside of the ENGLISH. Scotch.
Canadians, Orangemen, and few mis-
cradle Anglomanics, has the slightest
sympathy with England in this unjust
war Many Englishmen at home and
abroad are opposed to it. The cup OF
Ergland's iniquity is filled to overflow
ing, and we believe it to be the will OF
Divine Providence that the brigand OF
the nations shall be humbled and over
thrown at the opening of the twentieth
century.