Washington sentinel., 1900-02-03

The great Boer demonstration at
the Grand Opera House few davs
ago, has shaken the foundations oi
the White House. Everybody is
speaking Of the great Irish and
German meeting in favor Of
Kruger and liberty. Between
three and four thousand people
were turned away-couldn't get
admlssion--and yet the pro-Eng-
lish and pro-Administration pap
ers, the Star and the Times. never
mentioned the subject until after
the meeting.
The great danger now is that
Mckinley may flop and join the
Beers and throw John Bull over
board, lust as he has done the pro-
tective tariff business, in order to
save his election. Republican pol
iticians here say Something must
be done, and done pretty quick, or
we are lost"
The understanding or agreement,
as Joe Chamberlain calls it, be-
tween the Mckinley Administra-
ton and Lord Salisbury, whereby
there is an acquiescence on the
part of our Government to aid our
so.called Anglo Saxon friends to
crush Kruger and liberty in South
Africa, is regarded as fatal blum
der.
Macrum, our consul at Pretoria,
has been turned down and is COM
ing home, because he would not
violate law in his official capacity,
by distributing British money to
British soldiers, held as prisoners
in Pretoria. Whv, the first thing
done to prisoners when they are
captured is to take from them all
the money they have. The reason
for this is, to prevent them tamper-
ing with their guards.
We have replaced Macrum with
young Adelbert Hay, the son Of
our Secretary OF State. I might
say a boy. He has been commits
stoned by President Mckinley, and
sent as Consul to Pretoria, via
London, where he had a reception
and, presumably, received Instruc-
tions from Lord Salisbury, and
from London he went to Pretoria
on board OF British ship, in COM
panY with the Earl oil Winchelsen
and two or three other lords and
dukes, via Cape Town, from
whence he is to proceed to Preto-
ria and present his credentials to
the President OF the TransVaal Re-
public.
How would itlook if, during our
great Civil War, some thirty-6ve
years ago, England or France had
sent a Consul to this country, and
that Consul should go 6rst to Rich
mond and have a reception and a
eoniab with Jefferson Davis, and
from there he should 60, in com.
pany with a half a dozen sympa-
thizers with the enemies OF this
country, down to Mobile, Ala, or
New Orleans, and from there he
should proceed to Washington and
present his credentials to President
Lincoln. Don't you think that
Lincoln would have received that
consul with one of his inimitable
stories, and say, Young man, you
have taken the wrong route. l am
not receiving Consuls at present,
via Richmond"
Ninety per cent. of the American
people today are in favor OF Kruger
and liberty, whrle official America,
representing about ten per cent,
are in favor Of England and liberty.
We are without clean hands. We
are engaged IN the unnatural busi-
ness oftrYing to prevent the prop
agation Of our own species.
Our republican form OF govern
ment is the best so far devised by
man. Under it the oung man has
the fairess and best opportunity in
the race Of life. 1t should be,
therefore, our duty to aid and assist
the young republics throughout
the world, but instead Of that, we
are initiating England at her worst,
by irving to suppress an embryo
republic in the Orient and aiding
and abetting England to destroy
an established republic in Africa.
Now is the time for the lovers OF
liberty to think seriously on the
coming election IN November. /
am a life long Republican, and i
say now without any hesitation,
that it is the duty OF every lover oi
his country, to disregard party
politics at the next election, and