Arizona silver belt., 1900-04-05
BOERS DEFENDED.
Father Yorke, An Eminent Divine, Defends the
 Oppressed.
DENOUNCES GREAT BRITAIN.
A Brilliant Address Delivered By an Able Man in support of Patriots, He Talked Before the Red
 Branch Society M Frisco.

Father Iorke. one ofthe remarkable men of the day. delivered an inspiring address in san Francisco on March 20, touching upon the topics of the day at which time he divested himself of the following popular sentiments. His opening remarks paid high tribute to Robert Emmet, drawing from the life of that patriot many valuable les ms. He sounded warning against the policy of the United States toward the Filipinos and of England toward the Beers. Father Iorke said:
 England has no more right to kill the Boers than we have to kill the Filpiaos, and the reason that we can not answer the cry of agony that comes from South Africa is the reason that Cain gave for his refusal to answer for his brother r-our own hands are stained with blood"
 The local paper criticising. says, while the address of the reverend gen t.eman was brilliant in its arts of the orator, it was logical to it's severest degree in it's exposition of the princi- pleS that establish the right of people to their own national life. As the in- dividual possesses the inalienable right to individuality, so the nation has the right of individuality, Not imperial ism. but nationality, is the purpose of human government. After defining the principles of free government, Father Yorke proceeded:
 You cannot break down this spirit of nationality. You may put the whole nation into barracks, you may do your best to mold it into some people, but the soul that is in nations is immortal. It cannot be killed; it will survive, it will assert itself, and nations will live when imperialism is in the grave a rotten corpse. Applause
 Now, these are mere first prin. ciples of free government. In the be- ginning and even now one man has no power over the other. We are all free and equal. We remain so tO the end. Why should John Smith have more power over Thomas Robinson? You cannot find any reason for it. The only power given is in such measure as is necessary for carrying on the af fairs of the state. The less power wt have and the less government We have so much the better for the country. suppose you all know that some 30( years ago kings had right from Goo to rule the earth the divine right from God to govern and it is thi: theory that the kaiser has not alto gether forgotten"
 Referring to the Boer war, tht speaker said;
 The divine right of races has no given one race power to lord it ove another Last of all. it has not beer given to that mongrel. which we cal the Anglo-SaXon, the right to do so It has given them no right to shoo down the Boers in South Africa. Alp plause. And we have no right t' murder the Filipinos. Applause That is the reason why we sympa thize, and the vast majority of tn people sympathize, with that wondrou and glorious band in South Africa l yphfah lrau thta ,r,nataGnth Tn r that the days of chiyalry have no passed: that these people in the de sert, fighting with their backs to thei walls, are fighting against the big gest, most brutal and bloodiest bull that ever walked Tremendous aI plausej.
 The Anglo-Saxons have a numbe of arguments to prove their right their conduct in South Africa. The claim that the Boers are impervious
 Anglo-Saxon good government; thi
 they are hostile to religious libert
 The blessed British government, whic
 looks upon the Jesuits in Ireland {
 ielonS, shuts Catholics cut of the higl
 est positions in it's gift, is highly scal
 da!ized because the Boers do not pc
 init religious liberty; that they wi
 not permit the Catholics to vote.
 not enter upon this question from u
 standpoint of facts. l do not kno
 now things stand in South Africa, b
 It may be that the Boers did take le
 sons from the British and did cast (
 the Catholics"