The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-30
MAD MEN OF WORCESTER
Rev. j. Boyd Brady Discussed Them
Sunday Evening.

! Kew. u BOYD Brady Discussed mem
Sunday Evening.
Rev. James Boyd Brady preached the
first of seven discourses on THE mad
men of Worcester" at Grace church
last night In prelude he discussed
| the question, (which is right, Boer or
| Briton?"
In his sermon DR.. Brady contrasted
| two types of men that he has met with
| in Worcester, one an unbeliever, whom
he called Zoilus Agnosco; the other an
| antipodal type whom he called John
Gnosco. In the course of the sermon
which was very interesting DR. Brady
said that everybody is more or less in
sane, The insanity of so many people
| is so great as to be conspicuously de-
structiye, Special mental, moral and
| spiritual insanity, he said, is the worst
kind of madness.
DR., Brady sides with the British in
| the Boer war. In discussing TINS
subject, he said:
The Boer republic, so called, is an
oligarchy, that is, a government of the
| few by the few, for the few. It's courts
of law are under the control of the
| president. This so-called republic has
broken it's treaty of 1881 in which item
gagged to put foreigners on an equal
! footing with themselves, except in right
| of suffrage.
1t has so far forgotten itself that
! nine-tenths of it's taxation is paid by
| foreigners who have no vote in the gov
eminent. The Beers have insisted that
/ Dutch should be taught in private
schools, and then taxed the English
| for the teaching. They have MAIN
| tanned such corrupt government that
| President Kruger has been able to
amass $25, 100000 of private property in
ten years. although out of regular bus
mess.
They have kept whole towns built by
| Fnglishmen and other foreigners, ex-
| clusively under their control, and have
refused to authorize proper sanitation,
thereby doubling the death rate They
have prevented English and Americans
from holding public meetings, and
denied them even the right of petition.
They removed the judges from their
supreme court because they wanted to
yield some small Justice to foreigners.
They have prohibited any Englishman
or American from bearing arms, and
vet furnished every Boer with rifle and
revolver. They have surrounded Jo-
hannesburg with Krupp guns at the ex-
i pense entirely of Englishmen and
Americans. They have repealed the
laws of the Transyaal, agreed upon at
it's. settlement into independence, so
that foreigners who should be natu-
rallied after five years residence, have
i to serve Is years. They require during
those Is years of probationship, that
every Englishman or American re-
nounce all claim upon their respective
/ countries for protection, and even af-
ter ALL the applicant might be defeated
by two-thirds vote of the Beers of
the district. or by military officer
who was obliged to make no show of
reason why.
After all this, the naturalized citizen
would only be permitted to vote for
! the second chamber officers while all
the power lies in the first chamber Off
Gals. AS a result, Englishmen and
Americans have been the most eager
opponents Of Boer rule, and the first
| man arrested for alleged treason was
John Hays Hammond. an American. No
person of negro blood can own land
or enjoy civil rights. 1t is unlawful
for Boer minister to baptize negro,
to administer the eucharist or perform
marriage over a negro couple, the Boer
believing negroes have no souls.
The Beers are not building on the
Bible basis, and therefore must be
brought up to that standard or dis
persed. The world is becoming, accord
ling to the Bible requirement, conscious
that God has made of one blood, all
nations The world is growing toward
a great healthy body Of equality, lib
ierty fraternity, and every nation and
Ipeople and person. who will not sub
INIT to give his brother the same rights
and privileges they claim for them
lselves, shall be overrun and dispersed.
1t is part of the triumphal march of
God for humanity.
1t is an old saying that whom the
gods would destroy they first make
mad. Certainly it is nothing short of
political madness for such small peo-
Iple as the Beers to throw down the
gauntlet of defiance to such a nation
as Great Britain.
The slaughter now at the front of
British officers will only bring upon
them the greater retribution in the end.