Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-01-15
PUBLIC MEETING SUGGESTED
TO Express sympathy With the
Beers in Their Struggle Against
England,

Doof HI AheIF StruSSIe against
England.
To the Editor of the Register.
Dear Sir:-Thursday's Register con-
tanned a communication from a Wheel
ing citizen asking for the publication
of a lengthy article from the Louis
Vile Courier Journal, tending to prove
that the Boer was not just the immacu-
late thing the American press would
have us believe; and containing a
covert sheer that the said press, while
magnifying everything that would ia
yor the Beers, kept quite shady as to
m merits there may be on the other
side. This Courier article is in the
main a compilation from the writings
OF Mr.. Thomas G.. Sherman, which
ought to be considered by the Beers
American republican claquers."
We'll, 1t was considered and pondered
on by one of these same Beers claquers
and he embodied the result of his re-
Elections in a letter addressed to the
New York Times, and that liberal jour-
nal evinced it's way of hearing the
other side" by totally suppressing this
reply to Mr.. Sherman and his ILL
timed structures. The letter was then
sent to the Boston Pilot, whose editor,
James J. Roach, published it under
this caption-"The pro-English New
York Times refused to publish the fol-
lowing fair and temperate communica-
tom
Editor the New York Times:
The advocate in chief for the British
government in this country seems to
be your correspondent, Thomas G..
Sherman, whose statements on the
Boer republics have occupied space in
the Times and other pro-British organs
for some time past. So numerous, so
glazing and SO ridiculous have been the
misrepresentation and exaggerations
of the writer that his communications
have been aptly designated a Comedy
of Errors. In one of his recent effu-
sions he makes the following declara-
ton: LAS for Irish Catholics, President
Kruger hates them so much that he has
never allowed them to have the right
of gaining a vote or ever holding an
office under any circumstances" This
is a malicious and deliberate misstate-
ment. DR.. Leyds, plenipotentiary of
the Beers in Europe is himself a Cath
Ollie, and among others holding Office
under the present Kruger administra-
ton are DR.. Farelly, Government Ad-
visor on International Law, Irish Cath
Ollie; Mr.. Hogan, Secretary to the Conn
mandant General, Irish Catholic; Chew
alier O'Donohue, Vice-Chairman of the
johannesburg Corporation, Irish Cath
Ollie. One-fourth of the Transvaal Civil
Service are Catholics. The Catholic
Church and Convent in Pretoria are
built on ground presented by the Trans
vaal Government to the church.
The Beers have been uniformly con-
siderate to the nuns and priests. OF
this we have ample testimony in let
ters which have appeared in the lead
ing Catholic journals in the United
States from various German and Irish
priests, who have been on the mission
in the Transvaal. The Oblate mission
aries, now in America, and having had
practical experience of life in the
T%ransvaal, have declared that there is
no need of the removal of any Catholic
disabilities, as the constitution of the
Republic guarantees religious equality.
In the convention Of 81 the six
teenth clause guarantees religious
equality to the various sects, and this
is confirmed in clause nine of the con-
vention of "a.
Great Britain should be the last
Power in the world to protest against
religious disabilities in another coun-
try. If I were to refer to Ireland 1 find
that in that country no Catholic is al
lowed 70 fill the office of Lord Lieuten-
ant. Notwithstanding the fact that
Queen Victoria has millions of Catholic
1.l4~-4 ..zlA, H. a@--&ts@- -
Great Britain Her Majesty was obliged
to take an oath that the fundamental
tenets of the Catholic faith are false
and id~olatrous."
President Kruger was never COM
PEELED to take a cowardly and bigoted
oath of that kind.
In Ireland. which is th~ree-fourths
Catholic, the vast proportion of offices
are in the hands of the Protestant MI
nority. and the bishops and archbish-