The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-22
SYMPATHY FOR THE B0ERS
VIGOROUSLY EXPRESSED AT MASS
 MEETING IN WILMINGTON.

clares That "Lately, 1t Appears, the
 American Eagle Has Taken to Eating | Carrion."
 Washington, Jan. 21.-The Grand
 Opera house was packed to the doors
 tonight with an enthusiastic audience which vigorously expressed its sym
 pathy with the Boers in their fight with
 Great Britain. The demonstration was | planned as a means of evidencing pub
 lie sentiment and in numbers and en-
 thusasm was fully up to expectation. 1 The speakers included members of
 both branches of congress and on the
 stage were other public men who came
 merely to add their moral support. The | keynote of the speeches was that the | Boers were fighting for their independ- | ence as our forefathers had done in 1776. | The gathering assembled under the
 auspices of the United Irish societies,
 and a number of leading Germans of the city joined in the movement. The decorations of the house were Ameri-
 can flags, with fair sprinkling of the
 green of Erin.
 Among those who occupied seats on
 the stage were Senators Mason of H.
 linois, Allen of Nebraska and Tillman
 of South Carolina; Representatives
 Clark and De Armond of Missouri, Bai-- ley of Texas, Carman and Cox of Ten
 nessee, Rhea, Jones and Lamb of Vir-
 ginia, Shafroth of Colorado Dovenor of
 West Virginia, Meyer of Louisiana,
 Sulzer of New York, and Lentz of Ohio
 and MT. Van Sicklen, representative of
 the Orange Free State at New York
 and representatives of the United Irish
 societies and others. A large delega-
 ton of h-Americans and German
 Americans from Baltimore was in the
 audience. The meeting was called to
 order by the chairman of the executive
 committee, M P. T. Moran, the na-
 tional treasurer of the Ancient Order of
 Hibernians, who after a few words of
 welcome introduced Congressman Sul- ger as the presiding officer of the even-
 ing. MT. Sulzer said in part:
 "As an American citizen I am not ashamed to have 1t known that my sympathy is with the heroic Boers in their determined effort to maintain
 
 against the piracy and the tyranny of the British crown. In a fight between liberty and monarchy I want to see liberty win. England must not be per mitted to crush the Boers and steal their homes. The criminal march of devastation must and will be checked.
 ''The defeat of the Boers will be the severest blow to republican institutions that has been struck in a century, and every lover of liberty should fer vently pray that they may be success full. There Is no doubt the administra- tion is secretly in sympathy with Great Britain and rendering her all the aid it can. Every patriotic citizen of the republic should condemn this probing fish tendency. I want to see the Boers win and I believe they are going to win'
 Senator William F. Mason of Illi- nois was then introduced by Chairman Sulzer. He said that he had no apol- ogy to make for coming to this meeting on Sunday night. "I hold" he contin- ued, that there Is no hour too sacred or place to dear to speak for the cause of liberty. I congratulate Washington the capital of the nation, on Its sym pathetic demonstration in behalf of a sister republic. The conflict In the Transvaal Is struggle between liberty and slavery. When you hear these open their services with long prayers and tell of what they will do for down trodden people in far off lands, you usually find them closing with a description of the resources and wealth of these countries. The Boers are right but unless we can aid them in some way the cause may not tri- umph The bird of liberty has hither- to always found resting place in this | Lately the American eagle, | 1t appears, has taken to eating carrion. | We do not want for thet Boers the | kind of liberty that England would | give them. We want the Boers to have | the kind of liberty they want. If you have any influence lend your voice to | the cause of the Boers. If you have not influence, but have conviction speak your sentiments"
 Representative Bailey of Texas said that he came merely to give his moral support to the cause His address was l vigorous one and he was loudly ap- olauded. "I am sick of hearing about )ur brothers across the sea-" he con- inued. England is brutal She has lunted the Irish down and shot them n brutal manner among the bogs and ens of Ireland. It is not merely Eng ish greed of gold or desire for wealth hat urges England on during this war. She finds an opportunity to blot out a epublic from the map of the world,an he does not hesitate to do 1t. l blush o say that there are men under this lag who hope to see this crime perpe- rated. But they hope in vain.'
 Senator William V. Allen of Nebraska n a vigorous address said: If there is ny country on the face of the earth hat owes the British empire nothing, hat country is the United States of Imerica. England seeks to rule all peo- le for mercenary ends. There is not ofty motive about all her policy. Whor- yer she can advantageously extend her into that localtys she carries CT arms. Whether it be fertile fields vr iamonds or gold, the same greed for ain has actuated her conquests I am ot a believer in non-intervention when berty Is at stake. I would not only in- ervene with sympathy loudly and for ibly expressed, but I would intervene ] -ith every lawful means In my power. hope and believe that the God of jus ce will in time see that the British