Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-03-15
SCHOOL BOYS And THE BOERS.


genuine American boy, and We are glad
to see them take AT interest in public
affairs, whether they are right or wrong.
II they are wrong, they will be certain
to get right by and by, and the ex-
perience will be advantageous to Thorn.
They have started wrong in their SYM
pathy for Dom Kruger, but we would
rather see them 60 wrong than not go
at all. The following communication
was received yesi erday from one of the
intelligent, progressive schoolboys OF
the city: u,
schools boys of Philadelphia read me
| Times more generally than they read
any other one raper. and many IT them
were much surprised at your editorial
in today's paper.
The boys highly appreciate the com.
pliment you paid them as boys, but
they don't want to be wrong. and most
of US still think that we are right,
although you ought to know much
better. We would like to have you
answer few questions on the subject.
l. Are not the Beers now. fighting for
Their independence, their homes, their
families, their civil and religious
liberty just as our forefathers fcught
England in 1776?
z. is CHRidbh hOb SOOhhhE w 's~S-
ate the Beers solely for the purpose OF
extending her dominion regardless OF
the liberty and rights Of the BoersY
, The boys will make mistakes some
, times, but most of US are not yet con-
, WINGED that they are mistaken in SYM
} pathizing with the Beers, who seem to
be struggling for liberty against mon
! archy. A Schooi boy.
. Philadelphia, March 9th, 1900.
. The English are fighting in South
l Africa today for precisely tue same
D rights of person and property, and for
the same civil and religious liberty for
: which our forefathers fought the Eng
9 fish in the Revolutionary War; and the
Q Beers are fighting to maintain taxation
$ without representation and the abso..
Il lutte and arbitrary control and practical
Q coniiscation of other peoples property,
i, without allowing them voice in any
" way to protect it.
If If the schoolboys of Philadelphia
i, were living in the Transvaal Republic,
10 the laws of Dom Kruger would not
p hermit them to be taught in any public
" school 10 their English language,
J. although the English residents OF the
Republic pay more than nine. tenths OF
all the public taxes, including tine sup
port of the schools.
IF any of the schoolboys OF Philadel-
us mia with Catholic or Hebrew. parents
lived ir the Transvaal Republic, they
ut would not be permitted to go to school
A. Mt ali, and their parents would be denied
m every right of citizenship and eligibility
ly to even the simplest trust under the
40 government. Dom Kruger permits
re nobody to speak language or tc
of worship except those who are willing
at to speak in Dutch and pray at th'
al Dutch altar. 90,
he Under the several treaties with Eng
i'll land the Beers have had tie larges
liberty every enjoyed by any people o
as the world, and England has long sub
Tor mitted to their arrogant assumption Q
We liberty of license for themselves, includ
re. inc the liberty to steal the property o
he Others without limit There has move
zee been single infraction OF the com
of nlete civil and religious freedom an
ed Independence of the Beers by the Eng
No lish government. They made their owl
1er laws without interference from an
md Quarter, and they have been called
he account, not because of the freedom
,dy they enjoy for themselves, but beoaue
bs. of the freedom they claim to regulat
ey, the conscience and citizenship o. a
inc others, and to take their property undo
BOD color of law to the extent OF man
mes millions annually. ..s5
re, There is. therefore, no issue Eetwee
in freedom and monarchy in South Afric'
inc 1t is simply a struggle to give reaso'
able measure of freedom and proteetio
will of property to the English resideD
cen who we're invited there by the krug'
the government under the positive promis
the even in treaty, to give citizenship an
and protection to the property OF all ou
and ianders on conditions which were
SSH centable. When English capital az
lily English people went there, the como
A tions were arbitrarily changea I'M
lose there was neither freedom for the I'm
ms. iish citizens ncr protection for the
NJ a property.
dy- The revenues OF the kruger, Kepup9.i
tile, have been increased by the Engli
ury from $3.50, 600 annually to S20,O0o,U
t is annually, of which the Beers pay 3
and little over 81, 600, 600 all told. With
ON This revenue from the English, tn
cannus repair street OF exercise a
municipal authority whatever 10 a
English town without the consent
'om, the Kruger government.
ated If the schoolboys of Philadelph
eater "eio "a LA , ,ocsn,aatino
rnm give expression to any subject that o.
have Kruger did not approve, they would
imp arrested as oonspirators and put
oney prison. Under his law the Outland
your can never meet exceeding seven
/, tn nc number at any time or place for a
tiles, purpose.
size There is no more cofrupo Sofot III
ne in on the face of the earth than that
Dom Kruger, and he himself is
head and front of corrupt administ
ton. He, his SONS and his sons-in-l
nney have made themselves millionaires,
last some of them multi illionaires. by
the most violent and arbitrary robbery
Attef British subjects, not only in vioiat
their Incl. of treaty obligations, but in vioiat
WI Of every principle ofiustice.
4; Our schoolboys are doing the ri
ana thing in agitating the question.
York. would much rather see them sen
'ech, cablegram of sympathy to Kruger tt
lte not to have them give any express
on the subject. The American,
will be sure to get right sooner or la
and soon at the latest, and as t
riage come to understand the subject OF
crop English Boer war there are few of I'll
y, 49, y. who, in the end, will not agree, "
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