The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1899-11-10

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has the name the world over for ener-
gy, for progress and humanity will be
true to its higher purposes and aims.
According as our heart beliefs are in.
terpreied into action, so will the nation
be.
Speaking Of the slavery of men and
women and also Of the necessary effort
made by the United States to have
one style of government throughout
reminds one Of the war being now
waged in South Africa Because Eng
land gets scant treatment from some
Of our papers, perhaps few words
may be permitted regarding some
features Of the struggle between the
Beers and British. Practically the
Beers are the only white people in the
world who defend and practice slavery.
With sort Of moral Obtuseness that is
peculiar at times to those who are
verbally religious, the Boer pirates of
his nearness to God and then by his
harsh brutality TO the flesh and blood
of his brotherman he demonstrates his
nearness to the devil. For two CEN
turles he has been out of step with
progress and lives his patriarchal life
in conditions far inferior to our own
Cracker whites.
The Mormons went west beyond all
fear Of future interference. They were
mistaken. Civilization caught up with
them, ran beyond them, surrounded
them, assimilated them-this last not
difficulty and distress. The
United States could not permit within
itself a region utterly foreign to the
forward trend of things, hence the Ed
munds law and demonstrations by
soldiery and now the opposition t.
The Beers trekked northward be-
yond all imaginings of future British
They, too, were mistaken.
The steady tramp Of commerce, of
rade, Of development has surrounded
hem and already stretches northward
# them hundreds of miles. Even
within their own bounds their riches
nave arisen from those who came in
md developed the country, while the
Beers merely squatted on it. They
orbid Catholics or Hebrews from hold
ng Office; they grant monopolies; they
Iespise the people who pay the taxes.
even a slight knowledge of history
would tell US what to expect under
uch circumstances. The groups, or
he states, or the countries that will
lot keep step get their heels trodden
n; it is as inevitable as the coming Of
unshine to dispel darkness.
Let us be fair to Great Britain. She
as a huge task all over this world
out bravely even more brave
J than we Americans do, for an equal
" of chance. Where the English flag
Oes there goes commerce and she
lakes no unpleasant inquiries as to
here goods are manufactured. She
inns peace with her sword and prog
ess with her maxims, and then holds
he door wide open for other nations
} benefit by her proves, which is Ger.
linly more than we do, and let us not
,rget that That sturdy little land
hose men never know when they are
efeated is almost the only nation that {
.ands for "the open door" She is an
ivance agent for American products !
nd she is the best friend that America |
as in foreign fields and markets. Yet
hen a struggle comes on that is es-
entail to the carrying out Of her pro- {
mong the nations by blood, and Ian
uage, aud literature have been cry ,
X out about her land-grabbing and :
er greed and her lustful cruelty. She :
esiTes no more land: every square
lille that she adds increases her re-
and her burden; yet she y
lrns neither to the right hald nor to
ne left but goes forward in the grim
,alization that one nation among all