The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-16
CALLS GODS WRATH
Olive Schreiqers Sister in the
Role of Deborah.
Beers ARE GODS ENEMIES
Guilty of Worse Than Heather
denominations.
Beers ARE GODS ENEMIES

New York. Jan. 1.-THE Journal pub
fishes the following special copyright
cable from London: The imprisoned ap-
peals of Olive schreiner. through the
Journal have called forth an equally i'm
FASHIONED appeal from his sister, Mrs.
| Ellis. addressed ito all Christian peoples"
and cloiming that this war Is Gods ven
geance on the Beers for their infamous
treatment Of the native races. Mrs. Ellis
has a command of words perhaps ex-
ceiling that of her eloquent sister. She
writes:
IF ever there was a war for the Lord
of Hosts, If ever there was a war for
truth and right, for putting down oppres-
sion and wrong, for the deliverance OF
people powerless to deliver themselves,
this is that war. 1t is not the grievances
of the Uitlanders. though they have been
very real and have called for justice; it
is not what British subjects have had to
suffer of indignities and wrongs, though
these have been numerous under the re-
cent Transvaal Administration; il is not
the insult to Englands power and pres
tige shown by the refusal to concede her
moderate demands for justice to be done
to her subjects, followed by the unparal-
leled act of defiance contained in the
Transvaal war ultimatum: il is not these
things, however they may justly stir the
national heart, which call upon US as
Christians to bring the united force OF
Gods people, by the power of believing
prayer, to bear upon this war question.
Let no Christian heart thinks the i'm
mediate events which have led to this
war are the chief cause why the lifeblood
of the British Empire is being poured out
today. British soldiers are dying on Afri-
can soil today TO put an end to a condition
of astrocious wrong. a wrong continued
throughout generations, and which apDar-
emily nothing but this sacrifice of life
could right.
For over 200 years the progenitors of
the Transvaal eRpubnc and their descend
ants have crushed, maltreated and. as far
as they had power to do so, robbed of al
rights belonging to them as fellow human
beings, the colored peoples Of this land.
Under Transvaal rule a ceaseless sue
cession Of crimes-legislative social and
indiyidual-have been perpetrated upon
the helpless natives, both within and be-
yond the borders of their republic, for
whom 1t has seemed till now there was
no possible deliverance. To justice-loving
souls who have known Of thees wrongs ii
ha sheen like some horrible nightmare
that in the nineteenth century, within
the limits o ia country over part of which
there waves the British flag, political and
social oppression by one race over another
was long so grossly practised, to know
that on every side individual brutaIities
were being committed on defenceless vic
tins. and that not by the Arab Slave
drivers or Moslem oppressors. but by a
professedly Christian and highly religious
people, who, with the Bible in their hands
and loud professions of faith in prayers,
were practising barbarities. in peace as
well as in war, which put to shame the
records of what the savages of this and
have inflicted. even in war time, upon
white races.
'Oh, it has been horrible, beyond words |
horrible,"
Mrs. Ellis's appeal whereof these are
only short extracts. will be distributed
througout many churches and chapels |
tomorrow