The evening times., 1900-05-28
APPEAL FOR THE BOERS
England Bitterly Attacked by Sen.
atOr Wellington.
He Accuses the President of Being in
Underhand League With Great
Britain-SPeaiSs of Midnight
COuneii-The Resolution of Sym
pathy Goes ever Until Tomorrow.


praying that the war in South Africa might
be speedily ended. He accused the Presi-
dent with being in an underhand league
/ with Great Britain and with holding mid
night council that the United States might
be brought into an ENHANCEMENT with Eng
land, and demanded the seizure Of the Do
minion OF Canada
He stated that Congress would net have
performed Its duty il before adjournment
| some matters were not attended to. These
were the release Of Cuba to the people Of
the island; an expression Of what was in
tended 10 be done in the Philippines. and
some recognition Of the fearless, intrepid
people who were fighting for their homes in
South Africa
I'VE should act on this matter before
adjournment" sald he and express our
sympathy ere il is too late" He spoke OF
the recent mass meeting in this city and
| the desire 70 have the Teller resolution
adopted.
1t is Latural that republics should have
/ sympathy for each other The foe Of the
/ Beers has been our foe and their struggle
/ resembles our struggle" he said When
| the British came over here 10 lay the mail
| ed hand OF authority upon the little bands
| OF cOlonists who desired 10 be free, the
| latter began the Revolutionary War. They
| drew up a document Thiei. viii stand for
! ever as an arraignment Of British co-al-
nation.
1T was 4 recital Of crime and Injury.
/ aud IL awakened the world 20 the rights
| Of these people to liberty. We sought aid
/ In Europe. and from every land came aid
| and patriots. Lafayette. Pulaski, and 9th
| ers After seven years OF struggle we
10. rF-F~ -
/ endeavOr. and We were free. Then began
| our great Constitutional Government
Attem1t 40 Disrupt the Union.
But Britain did not cease here. She
! endeavored in every way TO disrupt the
union. ana endeavored 20 bring about var
| again, that she might recover the country
/ which she had eeded under a treaty Of
4 peace. Again We went 20 war Great
/ Britain sought % crush Us with great
| armies and great fleets she burned our
4 Capital and wrought other harm, but Perry
| and Jackson forced her 70 again Zee and
I leave Us in peace
/ We went westward aud carved great
| States out OF forests. We wrought liberty
| AID progress-Snd what Of England She
had been thwarted, but she stiil bore US
! hatred She endeavored to cause dissen-
/ sion IN the Union and succeeded She saw
=
| North and South and famed the smoth-
! ering flames. And all this under the gulse
! OF hatred OF Slavery. Yet she showed her
| hatred by aiding the side which upheld
| slavery ard endeaVOring 10 make NAL
[ teEs worse BY lending sld- BuI she failed
/ il her purpose Of disruption Providence
| came 70 our aid ana held the Union To-
Gether, one and inseparable- Again Great
| Britain watched with bitterness and envy
as-e-rr q
/ nation. She then cast about her for an
| Othe= scheme.
To-day the two nations are eIos7r-hav5
Ia bond Of fellowship, and the Cld feUds 4 {
but memories But in diplomats way
Great Britain has eBGesyo-e1 u lDcculate
our liberties with heT DethCds- Our rep
Tesentstives have a. fallen under heI
| crafty methods She has C5tainsd gTeai
power In an underhanded way ElglaRi
dare not attack US as OF yCrs- But she Is
| lighting US bereath the surface. She fssri
| and hates US
The treaty which we killed and spurn-
! ed was an unhCly scheme The only dan
ger which We now face is an English al
lance. The President cannot make
treaty. but he has an Underhsnd under
standing and nidnl lzht council with Grea
Britain and is lighting and longing TO :orc.
US into an entanglement with England
This is a serious charge, but I know o
what 1 speak, and such Al alliance wOuI,
be the death Of our liberties and or Gov
eTnE-ent.
Wherever England h2s laid her hand
that natior has become a burdened colony
Her subjects have beer reduced. simpl
because Great Britain was strong enough t
plunder and hold. Her unjust attack c.
the Beers is but sample Of her past. I
is claimed that the Transvaa4 courts CAV
unjust decisions. I have known an Eng
lish chief justice who sold decisions and
know that some Of the courts OF Grea
/ Britain are TO-DAY as polluted as the water
Of the Potomac
Climax of Britain's Policy.
Great Britain has reached the china,
of her policy when she endeaSc-s to str K
down free people who have formed
republic. She has tired Of savage con
quests in Africa and semi-savage con
quests in Asia. and she dares 70 strik
down free. white. enlightened people VII
! for years have lived ia peace and se
, , clusion. But England, in 1896, in the guis
! of the East India Company, followed an
! eudeavored to seize the little ban1 Of set
. tiers. And England has endeavored to gs
the settlers ever since. What Engian
cannot get by force she eRdeavors to sscur
by misTepresentation-
Can any man with one spark Of hu
manity in his bosom believe that the Boer
were not goaded into their present de
fence? Year after year the British hav
followed enviousiy and attempted 10 secur
the rights held by the Beers They mad
a convention with them and when a dia
mond field was discovered. Great Britail
denied the convention until defeated in
struggle which cost her heavily. This wa
not forgotten. Cecil Rhodes and Salisbur
eonspiFed 10 obtain the envied territory
Nov, what would an American saw
the Englishman came over here and de
: manded by force citizenship in the Unite
States without foreswearing his ailegiau.
| to Great Britain? But the Beers, wer
weak, and they could be forced. The worI
has witnessed the grandest spectacle eve
known in history. There have been grea
fights in history, but the struggle betwee
the Boer and the Briton is the noblest an
the most sublime. Dare We as freemer
stand aside and. without protest, see III
/ determination OF the bravest people TIA
Gods sun ever shcne on? White lost one
half his force. Butler was defeated An
the odds grew greater until today. unde
Roberts. there are only 900, 600 EngIis
| soldiers determined to extinguish so 90
, men. The Beers had a right to hope 70
sympathy. But il has not come. Sha
| our doors he closed against their eu~oys
II the Bourbon King of France could re-
ognize US in our trouble, can we not cRe
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