The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-05

Great Mass Meeting In New York-Ma-
son and Sulzer Speak Expressions of
sympathy from Other Cities-Fenians
at Work.

llrlsn societies OF New 1Ork anu It's VI
entity filled the Academy OF Music to-
night at a mass-meeting called to ex-
press sympathy with the Beers and OPP
position to England in consequence Of
the South African war.
Senator Mason. of Illinois. Congress
York. and others addressed the meet
ing
Justice Fitzgerald, OF the supreme
court presided. The entire house was
filled. The proscenium, the boxes and
the balconies were decorated with .
l~profusion of American flags, green Irish
emblems and the flags of the two South
African republics.
After calling the meeting TO order,
Justice Fitzgerald said:
1t is a great honor To be asked to
speak TO this audience tonight, to join
in expressing our deep indignation at
the unjustifiable war nov being waged
by Great Britain upon the people OF the
T~ransvaal, and TO give ~utterances TO
our sentiments OF deep admiration for
the gallant stand being made by the
embattled farmers OF South Africa in
defense of their property their lives,
their liberties.
The British Colonial Office seems up
to this point, to have made a mistake
in calculating the fighting qualities or
those 1t is said that the Co
lonial Secretary will send more troops
to Africa Perhaps when the yeomen
~foxhunters and by the gracious permis-
sion of the queen, the Duke Of Can
naught go to the relief of the besieged
troops, England's cup may be again
filled with bitterness
TT great heart of the American
people goes out to the people OF the
IT, - rL@ n-o Ir-Az tot
They are fighting for the same princi-
pies, they are against the same sover-
eign and relocated soldiers that fought
US a century ago and would fight us to-
morrow. if they dared and thought it
would benefit them"
lSULZER ON AMERICAN SYMPATHY
Congressman Sulzer next spoke He
said in part:
The Beers cause is just. No n
can honestly dispute this. They are
defending their homes and repelling a
remorseleSs invader. England'S at
tempt to steal their country is an out
rage, an act Of crimina aggression,
and should be condemned by the Chris
tan powers of the world. In my judg-
ment nine-tenths of the American peo-
pie are against England in this matter
and in sympathy with the South Afri-
can patriots
THE South African patriots are white
men. They are a good deal like the
patriots of our own revolution. They
love their homes, their freedom and
their liberty. They come from good old
Saxon ancestors from the north Of
Europe. They have never been con-
quered, and in my opinion, no matter
what others may think, they never
will be.
THE story of the struggles and the
h~ardships of these brave men in South
Africa is one of the SaddeSt pages in
all history-an imperishable heritage
to their hardy and valorous descend
ants. No one can impartially read it
without feeling a deep sympathy for
them in their present struggle TO main
tain their freedom and independence
against English greed for gold, English
tyranny and criminal British agrees
sion for land.
"REPUBLICANISM AGAINST MON
ARCHY."
TT brave Boers,' Mr.. Sulzer con-
tinues, ARE fighting for republicanism.
against monarchy; for democracy
against plutocracy; for home rule
against the bayonet; for the sovereign
ty of the individual against the sancti-
" of the crown: for the ballot against
the throne; for the love of home against
British tyranny; for the integrity of
their country against a ruthless V
dor; for the school-house and the
church against the army barracks and
the military fort; for religious freedom
against foreign domination; for the
freside of civilization against the blaZ-
ing torch of devastation; for free insti-
~tutions against imperialism; and above
all and beyond all they are fighting a
battle for the rights of man.
This conflict should be called Cecil
rhodes wal for gold in South Africa.
He is responsible for all the woe, all
the sorrow, all the despair, all the mis-
cry this war has caused. The Beers
have made him practically a prisoner.
He is shut up in his diamond mines at
Kimberley. He will have to eat dia-
monds if he is not speedily rescued. L
hope the Beers will capture him and
give him an immediate trial for high
treason.
MI Chamberlain and Mr.. Rhodes
began the present trouble by taking up
the alleged grievances of the English
aliens, or Outlanders, in South Africa.
Chamberlain practically demanded they
be ~enfrauchised without abjuring or
r%enouncing their allegiance to the Brit
ish crown This proposition is and was
preposterous. No government on earth
would submit to it.
KLONDIKE "OUTLANDERS-~
Il want TO say right here that IL the
friends and s~ympathizers of England
urge as a reason for British interfer-
ence, and as a justification of this war,
the alleged grievances Of the Outiand-
ers in regard to the franchise, taxation
and representation in the Transvaai.
the friends and sympathizers of the
Beers answer hat England's rules,
laws and regulations Regarding aliens
in the Klondike are more severe, more
grievous and more b~rrdensome- And
yet does IN n here urge a war with
England on account of the grievances
of American miner in the British
Klondike?
My friends l know the Declaration
of independence is today no more pop
ular with kings and queens than when
il was written, but / am American
enough TO believe that ii is just as true
today as it was in 1776. when it sound
ed the death knell Of the divine right
Of kings and proclaimed to all the world
a government based on the consent Of
the governed. 1t is too a the Decla-
ration of Indapendenca Is NOT aS unp71-