Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-27

NEW YORK, June 26.-The>Boer en-
voys who have been in this country
for the past two months. to-day issued
an address to the people of the United
States. After expressing regret at
their inability tt accept many of the
invitations extended to them, they ex-
pressed their thanks to the American
public for 'the deep sympathy they
have shown for the cause. of the two
struggling republics"
Continuing, the address says:
1--WE now feel convinced that the
boastful allegation of the colonial sec
rotary and other British statesmen that
the citizens of this great country SYM
pathized with the British empire in its
attempt to crush the liberty and inde-
pendence of our two small states, is
absolutely devoid Of truth"
The address then goes at great length
into the history Of the relations be-
tween Great Britain and the Beers.
which it characteriZes as zone of vio-
lated faith and broken pledges, cloaked
under the display Of -magnanimous and
irreproachable principles" Coming
down to the discovery of gold in Jo-
hannesburg in 1886, the address says:
"All the forces of
Land Greed and Gold Hunger,
stimulated by the desire to avenge
what is known as the battls of Maiuba
Hill, were let loose"
Then follows a history of the polit-
ical agitation which eliminated in the
Jameson raid. "Mr. Chamberlain. Sir
Alfred Miner and Mr.. Cecil Rhodes"
continues the address, ARE the terrible
diabolical trinity which had bfooded
over and shaped the destiny of South
Africa during the calamitous period.
These gentlemen combined forces SO as
to achieve by ,subtfety and craft and
misrepresentation what DR.. jameson
and the raiders failed to obtain by open
violence"
The address declares that the capt.
talists control the press of South AZ
RIGA and that the editors of these sub
sidized journals were appointed spec
ial correspondents of the principal
London journals. The broad charge
is made that Mr.. Chamberlain's revival
of the suzerainty claim in 1897, his
public utterances, Sir Alfred Miners
speeches and inflammatory dispatches
and the efforts of. the South African
league, under the presidency OF Cecil
Rhodes, were all directed towards
The Ultimate Destruction
of the two Dutch republics.
The address then takes up the vari-
GUS international questions which con-
tributed towards the outbreak of the
war, and discusses them in great de-
tail, making wholesale denials of the
English representation. The address
declares that at the Bloemfontain con-
ference both President Steyn and
President Kruger e~ndeavored to avert
the catastrophe by conceding even
more than the original demands on the
franchise question, but their efforts
were fruitless. 1t is asserted that the
war was forced upon the Beers, and
the claim Is advanced that they took
up arms only in self defense. The adj
dress contends that the policy of Great
Britain was designedly shaped so as
to compel the Beers to send OF the
9th of October what is commonly
known as their ultimatum to Great
Britain.
Taking up the campaign to date the
address says:
THE Beers may be in the end de-
feated by overwhelming numbers, and
may ultimately be forced to surrender
owing to difficulty of securing ammu-
milton and provisions, but the conduct
OF the present war, as we'll as the his
tory Of the past one hundred years,
justifes us in saying, that they
Will Never be Conquered
The address concludes by saying
that the ENJOYS do not ask the direct
or forctble intervention OF the United
States, but a continuance of PUBLIC
sympathy and support. The address is
signed by Abraham Fischer, c.. II.
Vessels and "A. B. Wolnlarans.