The Taney County republican., 1900-04-05
A PICTURE Of THE BOERS.
Julian Ralph, the American War
Correspondent. Tells of the
Beers as He Finds Them.
SEEKS TO DIsPEL SOME FALSE NOTIONS.
The Tranxvaa1 and Orange Free
State Republics In Name Ohlys
md Their People, Instead OF Re-
ing Farmers are Simply Herd
ers. and Filthy Ones.

ing Farmers are Simply Herd-
ers, and Filthy Ones.
Iordon. March 3O.-The most serl-
QUE Indictment of the Beers methods
O: warfare which has yet appeared III
ENGLAND comes from Julian Ralph, the
American war correspondent, in let
ter from Kimberley, published in the
Daily Mail. 1t is, in part, as follows:
The War Stealthily Planned.
cit is war steadily and stealthliy
rianned by the queens Dutch subjects
and the Dutch republics for fully
twenty wears. For between four anu
SIX wears they have been equipped 1or
it, They began purchasing arms ana
riannipp defenses before the Jameson
raid. Let no one fool you with the
fa.sehood about that. Finally, Presi-
dent Kruger begged President Steyn
to declare war three years before
President Steyn consented.
A False Notion Corrected.
ssNext rid your mind of the notion
that you are crushing two farmer re-
prtIics. There is not farmer IN the
two countries, and only one, the Free
State, which is republic in any way
except misnaming. These people are
hereers of cattle, sheep and goats, like
the Israelites of old and the Afrldls'
Turk. and Balkan peoples of to-day.
His (the Boers) so-called farms are
as nature made them, merely reaches
of yeldt, whereon his cattle Craze.
Repellant Surroundings.
Con each one he has put up homo,
and it's surroundings are almost III
variably more repellant and disorderiy
than any houses 1 ever saw, except tue
cabins of freed slaves in the United
States. Their camps and stronghoioS
from which we have routed them are
tie filthiest places 1 have known men
of any sort to live in, and nave seen
red Indian, Chinese and turkish
comps. and the camps of many sorts
OF black men.
Tbeir .Bravery and Honor"
"As to their bravery and honor,
have seen and heard sufhclent 10 HI
page of the Daily Mail with accounts
of their cowardly and dastardly oe-
hayior before I came to Kimberley
Eut. here, l find they have been guilty
of different and original enormltles.
| Here they killed our wounded and lalc
| their bodies in row after one or the
;orays out of town. Here they
armed many blacks to fight us, show
| ing all the world how scandalousl,'
fraudulent were ,heir exclamations OF
horror at the idea of our employing
native Indian troops.
Abuse of the White Flag.
| I,
which the Beers have not abused either
the white flag or the Geneva cross, OF
both At Spion kop our people sa"
| them loading MaXims ii ambulances
in order to get them safely away. Ihls
we saw them do ut Modder river also
and Kimberley is where the Boer>
shelled the funeral cortege Of George
T.. Abraham, an American. AT many
places they fired on our ambulances
| / saw them dc it at the Modder river
and saw them fire on our stretcher
bearers in that battle time and time
again.
A City of Doctors.
.sWhen we entered Jacobsdal i
looked like a city of doctors. Ever.
man in the streets wore the red eros
bandage ON his arm. These were tn
men who had just been shooting u
from behind garden walls. There wa
nothing novel or original about thei
seeking the cowardly shelter of tn
doctors badge. We have become quit
accustomed to it. We once entered
Boer laager after a victory, and foun
81 of these bogus doctors and seve1
or eight wounded, for their patients.
BOer Vandalism.
'.Not content with looting tn
houses of the loyalists in the Britis
colonies, but in Natal, in scores of in
stances they have SMASHED into kin
dlirgs and torn into ribbons what
ever they did not want or could no
carry Off. Worse yet, they have foule
the walls of the homes of defenseles
women with obscene writings. The
never knew the value of an oath Q
promise, and have net learned it sine
. the war began"
ssBOzXie" Is Dead.