The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-05
MONEY FOR THEBOERS
Several Hundred Dollars Raised at q
Baltimore Meeting.

Baltimore, Feb. 5.-Nearly 5000 per-
sons attended an enthusiastic pro-Boer
mass meeting in Fords Opera House
Sunday night. The pricipal speakers
were Congressman Sulzer, of New York;
Rhea of Kentucky; Lentz Of Ohia, and
De Almond, of Missouri, and Senator
Allen Of Nebraska At the close of the
meeting several hundred dollars was
raised for the Boer relief fund.
Congressman Sulzer of New York, was
permanent chairman of the meeting.
Almost the first utterance of the New
Yorker sent the audience on fire and
several times during the course Of his
remarks he was interrupted for five
minutes at a time by the shouts and
huzzaS of the audience.
Il hope the Beers will win he be-
gan. They have a right to win, be-
cause they are in the right and England
in the wrong. hope that this bloody
and unjust conflict will end in the ma
rauding British being driven from the
TransVaal and in the ultimate institu-
ton of the United States of South Ar
RIGA. The United States is very reticent
just now. She does not wish to show
her hand because of what she is doing
in the Philippines It is too bad that
the government at Washington is i'll
sympathy in England.
This is a war as unholy as any war
Waged. II is a crying wrong and
crime in the face of the civilized world.
ors. We want this pro-Enghsh policy
at the White House to come down"
Mr.. Sulzer then introduced Senator
William Allen Of Nebraska
L believe the common people of Eng
| land are against this war" declared the
senator. 1T is the official England that
| is prosecuting and prosecuting the hap
| less Beers. The English were content to
| leave the Beers alone so long as they
| had nothing that seemed to be of great
value. But those great diamond mines
! have bedaZZled the eyes and excited
| their cupidity.
IF the political party to which I be
! long were in power it would not be 4S
| hours until the news would be flashed
| across the ocean that the hand of the
| butcher must be stayed in South AT
| RIGA"
Congressman Rhea of Kentucky was
! the next speaker.
by whose consent are you assembled
! here tOnight?" he asked. Not by Great
| Britain's. Were you still colonies. sub
| ject to the imperial crown, this meeting
| would be reasonable, and we would be
hung as traitors. What is England?
| What is England's history" he de-
| manded. Oppression and cruelty. Her
| fame is written in blood and tears
| What is this maudlin sentiment we hear
! about the English-speaking being bound
| by an alliance of love and blood? For
what purpose is that alliance? That we
may go hence to subjugate and then
| plumber the weaker people of the World2
to stop our merchant marine ON the
high seas, and what happened? I'll call
a spade a spade. l will not say, Off
cial America I'll say President McKin-
ley and his administration. That's why
the incident passed off as it did. In
week or ten days the answer to our pro-
test came It said: Wait, be still
Wen investigate the matter. If any
thing is wrong we will make it all
right
Il would have started a man of war
| across the ocean and though England
stood in all her terrible power 1 would
have said: Here stands Old Kentucky
/ Will say to you here tonight that in
crisis a certain man is not dead. I viii
not call his name-you know who he is.
| (Cries of Bryan, Bryan.)
who will believe that the present ad-
ministration will heed our resolution
when it is engaged in assimulating the
Philippines? The answer would come
to US that God directed the destiny OF
the present conflict; that the finger of
| providence pointed out that the British
| crown shall hold barbarous sway over
the Beers.
Let Us ring the old independence bell
! peals shall disturb the prayers in the
White House"
Judge Charles F. Cochran of Missouri
predicted that within the next few
months official America" will be COM
PEELED to tell the people how it stands
on this affair; whether we are to be in
sympathy with a pirate monarchy or
| republic.
Thomas Jett of Illinois asserted that
80 per cent Of the people in his section
were in favor of the Beers.