Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-10-15

struggle. the press representatives of Great
Britain are succeeding in getting in their
work in many of the leading newspapers of
the United States, and American readers
are made to see the issue through British
spectacles. Only for the radical division Of
sentiment on the war among Engiishmen
themselves. and the fact that several large
English papers are opposed to the war
against the Beers, this circumstance would
be far more pronounced than it is. Among
the most rabid pro-Ensiish writer's in the
United States, who are making hero of
Colonial Secretary Chamberlain. who alone
Is responsible for the present troubles, are
the 'Marquise dc Fantenoy" and a gentle
man signing himself to dozen syndicated
Sunday letters as .'Ex-Attache." This lady
Of doubtful title and this writer of vague
and foggy identity have been monOpoliZing
continental kitchen gossip and barber shop
talk with reckless disregard for reputa-
tions other than those OF Englishmen and
English women. II may interest some to
be told that the "marQuise Is not mar
quise at all, and that ''ex-attache'' was
never attached to the diplomatic service Of
the United States, of, indeed. any diplomat
ic staff In the world ever enjoyed his SER
vices.
The .'marluise'' and the 'ex-attache'' are
one and the same person, an Englishman
named Owens, with headquarters iE New
York, whose chippy matter Is derived from
careful perusai: OF the columns ot an
assortment of English and Continental
sensational society papers chiefly devoIed
to the PRONUNCIATION of reports of the do
ings of royalty which emanate from the
backdoors OF the private residences Of the
rich and titled in all parts of Europe Be-
sides, Owens and his press bureau quite
number of the Correspondents of Ameri-
can papers at W ash!ngton are Englishmen.
some of whom have never foresworn their
allegiance 10 the queen. and hope to see
the day when the United States will be
reannexed to the mother country" The
latter are busily engaged at present in
helping to cement the much discussed
Anglo-American alliance into permanent
compact, and refiexly are doing their best
to make it appear that the sentiment of
the American press Is predominantly pro-
English and anti -Boerlike. in order to in
fiuence the administration policy, in its
dealings with the present disturbed condi-
ton of affairs in South Africa.
OF course, there Is very little probability
that the Unitpd States Will in any way be-
come involvet in the war, yet it is signifi-
cant that wafships destined for the Philip
pines are to~pass through the SueZ canal.
in order to be as near as possible to the
scene Of trouble II their presence should
be required II y said that not above
1850 Americans are in the Transvaal and
the Orange Free State. and most of these
have Joined the Boers. The latest infor-
nation received at the state department IS
that thousands Of Irish. Germans and
Dutch. and large proportion of Ameri-
cans have left Cape Colony and other Eng
lish possessions and gone over TO the Beers.
The significance 6f this movement cannot
be urder-estimated. The English cunten-
ton is that they desire only to redress the
grievances OF ttre OutiaDteTS- II seems
that a corps of ZOO German outlanders
and another outiander corps commanded
by an Irish-American were among the first
to volunteer their services to President
Kruger for the defense of the Transvaal.
II is estimated that from 1909 to $500
able-bodied outlarders are among the BOer
defenders. So that the British contention
of rSdressing anybodys grievances re-
solves itself down to the large quota OF
Engishmen in the Transvaat who will be
satisfied with nothing short of the annihila..
tion of the Beers and the annexation Of
the Transvaal and Orange Free State TO
the colonial possessions of England
FRED F. SCHRADER.