Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-12-15
B0ERs COMMENDED
BY Hibernian, Who Also Severed.
Criticfzes the British.

| To the Editor of the Register.
Sir:-Yesterday's Register con-
tanned the following from the London
Morning Post: I'VE have had our day
of humiliation appointed for us. This
last reverse will make us a fresh butt
of Europe" True for you, you have be-
come a spectacle before God and men,
and your humiliation is great indeed,
and the worst of it is the fools know it.
A handful Of Dutch farmers, as Joe
called them, visiting with complete dis
aster the fair flower of the British
army-the pink and perfection of Tom
my Atkins-is humiliation indeed. The
sight of the Honorable Coldstream
Guards, with the Duke of Birmingham
for their colonel, fleeing for their lives
before those South African farmers,
would make an angel weep-or smile.
But, Mr.. Post, all this is of your W
making. Had you remained at home,
and minded your w business; had
you not opened up your rapaeious
NAV to swallow up other peoples
goods, you might have these same
| Honorable Coldstream Guards at home
in their castles in England, enjoying
at Christmas time the tin of chocolate
that the generosity of Queen Victoria
is to bestow on every Thomas Atkins
| that's alive and not used for 'stuRing''
by the Beers for their Christmas Day
dinner.
The way of the wicked is hard, Mr..
P, and you are not the first to realize
| the truth of this remark. For wicked
most assuredly is your conduct in
I South Africa just now, as wicked as
it has been in every part of the world
where where you have planted your
Attiiia feet. The whole world on
dennis the ubiquitous war which you
are at present waging against the
brave Beers of the two republics-
those determined patriots who have
won the admiration of all regions by
the heroic courage they have shown
while resisting the u~nprovoked attack
made upon them by your government,
which, under the fairest and most spe-
cious %pretences, has so often shown it,
self capable of the blacklist crimes.
The whole world is opposed to this war
on the grounds of humanity, of patriot
ism and of conscience. On>the ground
of acknowledgements it is contrary to
that innate sense Of justice implanted
by the Creator in every human heart.
On the ground Of observation-disclosures
it becomes any people who love liberty
to sympathize with men who are brave
ly fighting to ave it, and to save it
from the deadly clutch of that tyran-
nous power under whose blighting
sway many a fair land has endured
such manifold misery. On the ground
of conscience, for, being an unjust
war, acquiescence in it even by silence,
is culpable, and ether countries are not
prepared to shoulder for England's
sake the weight of dishonesty that
even silent participation in your pres
ent career of despoliation would seek
to throw upon them. The world is not
SO disinterest as to enter for your
sake into a conspiracy to commit MUIR
der-though dignifled by the name of
warfare-for let England and her
Anglo-Saxon sycophants and parasites
in this American land say what they
may, this war against the Beers Is
nothing but organized murder, prompt
ed by the Unsuitable greed of the YAM
pire government of %perfdious Albion.
No wonder, then, that you are, as
| you claim, the butt" of Europe, for the
voice of every fair-minded man is
| raised in behalf of justice in the matter
of this cruel, cowardly and unjust war:
| if, indeed, that can be called var which
is a mere plundering raid or highway
robbery on a large scale, attended with
| IlOuSduuS u ului QSIS-lOE even IIe
taken by an unjust aggressor in such
a raid is murder. We wish you a hap
by Christmas, honorable Post, and by
way OF helping you to digest your ma
tional plate of roast beef and plum pud-
ding on that suspicious day, hear what
one of your distinguished brothers of
the press here, even under the I Nc
Kinley autocracy, writes about you:
ssThe mules deserve more credit for
the stand they took in South Africa
| than the English administration for The
| stand 1t took. IN that infamous attempt
| at robbery. Mules always favor self
| government. Mules are neyey hypo-
critics. Mules will not willingly obey
bossism." Happy Christmas. Brum-
mageous Joe, and may the ghosts of
| Modder River and Of Stormberg lay
low for you on Christmas Eve night.
Yours.
| HIBERNAN.