Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-11-28
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Movement Started at Orange City
to Raise Fund for South Afri.
can Sufferers
Money to Be Sent to Transvaal and
Orange Free State
Beers.
Will Be Used to Relieve Distress Of
Wounded. Widows and
Orphans.
Special to Times-Republican.

A1PCSAtai " 1lHicS.IScRuUllC1ns
Orange City, Ia, Nov. 2s.-A fund has
been started here for manned and Grip
pied Beers and the widows and orphans
of the war now being waged against
Great Britain in South Africa. Orange
City is distinctly Dutch town. When
the district judge and his court reporter
come down here to hold court it is nee
essary to secure the services Of an in
terpreter, as not two out of ten of the
witnesses can understand word of
English 1t is natural. therefore, that
these foreigners, who have learned to
prize the liberty they have found in
their adopted country, should deeply
| sympathize with their countrymen of
the Transvaal and Orange Free State.
Bound by the closest ties of kinship. all
their interests are allied with the Boer
and burgher. For they look upon the
struggle entirely as one Of an oppressed
| people fighting against an unequal foe
for the God-given right Of liberty. While
English-speaking and American born
Americans may see an element Of JUS
| tice in the cause of the Uitlander, they
can not help but sympathize with the
object of the movement started among
| these peaceful and law-abiding foreign
ers to aid their suffering countrymen.
They have prepared an appeal and sent
lit to the press of the state, asking
money, not to aid in prosecuting the
war against Great Britain, but to ale
viate the sufferings which the war is
bringing and will bring to the people
the manned, the crippled. the widows
and orphans of the heroic Beers. The
4 appeals is as follows:
AN APPEAL.
4 From the land Of the free and the
home of the brave, far down in South
4 Africa, comes no wailing, comes no cry
for help or assistance.
yet in the land of the free and the
home of the brave, in the western hem
isphere, we hear by the mysterious cleo
trio fluid the reverberations of the
death-dealing thunder of England's
mighty liddyte guns, of the incessant
cracking of the never missing Mausers
of the Beers.
Americans, who always loved liber-
ty, who always sympathised with the
oppressed, who always abhorred tyran-
J ny, more so when under the cloak of
hypocrisy, can not blame their co-citi-
zens Of Holland origin IL their hearts
throb, and an enthusiastic JOY. strange
to their phlegmatic temperament,
makes every nerve thrill when seeing
two small republics, of the same stock,
:. the same flesh and blood as their own,
dare to stand up for freedom and in
dependence against the Colossus of our
times.
Never did Sparta never did Rome in
its best days, show greater courage, lof-
tier determination to live or die free
man, than the 5000 Transvaalers and
Free Staters when they took up the
gauntlet of perfide Albion with its more
. than 30O,OOO,0OO subjects!
and our sympathy goes with the
manly American, who blushing says:
this is the first time in our history that
our government stand lstingly by,
when big bully tries to choke freedom
, and tramples on weaker nation; this
is the first time that our administration
+ stands as Saul guarding the clothes OF
those that stoned Stephan and APPROX
ing their deed.
Yes, we sympathis with them and
the world will not hold them responsible
! for the acts and sympathies of a presi-
a dent and his cabinet, who departed
= from the old and glorious traditions
!. that made America the loadstar of the
flowers Of freedom, the hope of the OPP
. pressed.
: .Therefore we, your Holland co-citi-
, zens, call on you all that love freedom
:, that detest the oppression of the veal
= by the strong, and say to you: those lit
:. tie republics have found the bottom OF
:, their treasury; the London money mar
). ket will not give them credit; they vii
!, have thousands of MANNED and crippled
, for life, thousands of widows and orph-
: ans. They have not the unboundeo
. credit of our nation, not the immense
: resources of the first republic thai
: wrestled her freedom from England's
: grasp, and yet those thousands must be
: cared for, may notify God Almighty.
: help-be beggars and outcasts.
HOLLAND and Belgium France anc
Germany, and even Russia are collect
!. ing funds for the Red Cross and fol
i kindred purposes.
. "Shall Americans stand idly by, shall
we be niggards, shall we, to please oui
. friend, the grasping, grinding, greedy
Briton. refuse to lend our aid to heroe:
: whose superiors the world did never
see?
God forbid.
"Therefore we. your Holland co-citi
zens, remembering how magnanimousl.
: you came to the rescue when want ant
> famine reigned in Russia or India, ash
: you to contribute something for thu
= heroic Transvaalers and Free Skaters
: for their widows and their orphans.
:, 1.-The mite of the poorest is as vel
u come as the greater gifts of the rich
Therefore we ask you, the Influential
papers, to open subscription lists for:
THE crippled. the widows and orph
n ans of the Transvaal and Orange Free
# State.
h THE undersigned have formed com
: mittee to receive the money, collected
a in this way, and will send same to thu
: representative of Transvaal, residing il
a Brussels, and send his receipts to tn
: different papers who may send us thei
!. contribution.
!. mot doubling a generous response
y we are, respectfully.
q Hon H. Hospers, state senator, Or
q ange City, president.
. IN. p. van Oosterhout editor De Vrij
Hollander, Orange City. secretary.
"Hon. A. w. van Wagenen, ex-distric
judge.
a ar r, Rroaks,ptt auditor r. g. n q, N