The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-02
A GREAT PRO-bOER
MASS MEETING
Irish Societies Fill New York
Academy of Music.
ENGLAND Is DENOUNCED
THE BOERS FIGHTING FOR LIFE
AND LIBERTY.
FOR THE BALLOT AGAINST THE THRONE
Fitzgerald and SuIzer Speak. suzer Declares
English Laws Harder Upon Foreigners in
the Kiondke Than Boer Laws Upon
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Outlanders in the TransyaaI,

New York, Jan 1.-The United Irish
! Societies OF New York and its vicinity
| filed the Academy of Music tonight at a
mass meeting called to express sympathy
with the Beers and opposition to Eng
land in consequence of the South Afri
! can war.
| Senator Mason, of Illinois, Congress
men Sulzer and Cummings of New
York, and others addressed the meet
ing.
| Justice Fitzgerald, of the Supreme
Court, presided. The entire house was
filed The proscenium. the boxes and
the balconies were decorated with
profuson OF American flags, green Irish
cmblems and the flags of the two South
| African republics.
'sEMBATTLED FARMERS"
After calling the meeting TO order,
! Justice Fitzgerald said:
| 1T is great honor to he asked to
! speak Ito this great audience tonight, to
join i'm expressing our deep Indignation
/ at the unjustifiable war now being waged
| by Great Britain upon the people OF the
|
sentiments of deep admiration for the
| gallant stand being made by the en-
! battled farmers of South Africa in de-
Tense 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 OF those
farmers. 1T is said that the Colonial
Secretary will send more troops to Afrl-
| ca. Perhaps when the yoemen fox
| hunters and by the gracious permission
| of the Queen. the Duke OF Connaught
! 90 to the relief of the besieged troops,
J Englands cup may be again filled with
, bitterness.
THE great heart Of the American
people goes out To the people Of the
Transvaa and the Orange Free State.
They are fighting for the same prince
piles. they are AGAINST the same sovereign
! and relocated soldiers that fought us u
century ago and would fight MS tomorrow
! if they dared and thought it would benc~
| fit them"
SULZER on AMERICAN SYMPA-
| THY.
| Congressman Sulzcr spoke next. He
said in part:
The Beers cause is just. No one can
honestly dispute that. They are defend-
| ing their homes and repelling remorse-
! less invader. Engiand's attempt TO steal
! their country is an outrage. an act or
! criminal aggression, and should be con-
demned by the Christian powers OF the
| world. In my Judgment nine-tenths OF
! the American people are against England
in this matter and in sympathy with the
South African patriots.
The story of the struggles and the
hardships OF these brave men in South
| Africa is one of the saddest pages in all
| HISTORIAN imperishable heritage to
| their hardy and yalorous descendants.
| No one cam impartially read it without
/ feeling deep sympathy for them an their
/ present struggle to maintain their free
| dom and independence against English
| greed for gold English tyranny and
criminal British aggression for land.
..REPUBLICANlSM AGAINST MON
ARCHY.'
"The brave Beers" Mrs. Sulzer con-
| tinued. "are fighting for republicanism
against monarchy; for democracy against
| plutocracy; for home rule against the
| bayonet; for the sovereignty of the in
| diyidual against the sanctity of the
| Crown; for the ballot against the throne;
| for the love of home against the love Of
! gold: for Saxon freedom against British
tyranny; for the integrity of their coun-
| try against ruthless mya-
| der; for the school house and
| the church against the army barracks.
and the military FORT for religious free
| dom against foreign domination; for the
| fireside of civilization against the blaZ-
| ing torch of devastation; for free institu-
| lions 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 war for gold in South Africa.
| He is responsible for all the woe. all the
sorrow, all the despair. all the misery
| this war has caused. The Beers have
made him practically a prisoner. lie Is
| shut up in his diamond mines at Kim
| berley He will have TO eat diamonds
! if he is not speedily rescued. | hope
| the Beers will capture him and give
| him an immediate trial for high trea-
| son.
Mr.. Chamberlain and Mr.. Rhodes
| began the present trouble by taking up
| the alleged grievances of the English
aliens. of Outlanders. in South Africa.
/ Chamberlain practically demanded they
be enfranchiscd without abjuring or re-
nouncing their allegiance to the British
crown. This proposition is and was
| prerosterous. No government on earth
would submit to it.
| KLONDIKE "OUTIjANDERS.
II want to say right here that if the
| friends and sympathzers Of England
urge as a reason for British interfer-
ence. and as justification of this war;
| the alleged grievances of the Outlanders
| in regard to the franchise, taxation
and representation in the Transvaal, the
| friends and sympathizers of the Beers
| answer that England's rules, laws and
| regulations regarding aliens in the Klon-
| dixie are more severe, more grievous and