The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1900-08-04
rs AIDING ENGLAND.
POSITIVE PROOF OF AN UN-
HOLY ALLIANCE
Against the Dutch on the Part of
Great Britain and the Administration
That MIsrepresents the People of Our
Own Republic

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against the Boer republics in South
Africa the administration has become
the partisan Of England and the enemy
of the Beers, and is guilty of a most
serious offense. For quite a number of
days the employees of the folding room
of the bureau of education, which is a
part of the interior department. have
been busily engaged in sending out a
large mass of pamphlets and leaflets.
issued by the Imperial South African
association, No. &c Victoria street,
Westminster. S. W."Uondon). The
strictest secrecy was observed about
this work. which is quite natural, as it
is in violation of law and decency alike
The strictest secrecy was also enjoined
on all employees engaged therein, who.
1t is needless to say, are all Republic
ans, and when the chief OF the bureau,
Prof. w. T. Harris. who inaugurated
the work himself, left for Europe a
few days ago, he instructed his priv
ate messenger to carefully nail up
the huge box, about five feet square.
containing these pamphlets every
night and keep out all intruders.
Nevertheless, as murder will out"
1t happened a few days ago that
former employe of the Office visited
the bureau On business and, as is his
habits OF such occasions, picked up
one of the packages prepared for mail
ing and drew out its contents. This
aroused the ire of the foreman of the
folding room, who bounced upon him,
snatched the papers from his hands,
and said to him: How dare you inter
fere with the work and business of the
government in this manner? II is no
business of yours what the contents OF
these pamphlets are. and furthermore
IL is the express order of the commits
sioner prot Harris) that no one shall
be allowed to handle or examine these
pamphlets. Not even the empress
who are at work on them are allowed
TO know their contents or examine
them, and /. myself. do not know for
what purpose they are being sent out
In view of these facts, it is a piece of
gross impertinence for you to deliber-
ately pick up papers which do not con-
Germ you and proceed to read them"
The gentleman tried 10 explain that
he was innocent of any intention to
do wrong and had presumed they were
public documents, but all was in vain
and he was invited out. Nevertheless
a set Of the pamphlets were procured,
and they were entitled as follows:
1st. The British Case Against the
Boer Republics"
I'd. Letter to Senator Hoar on the
Transvaal War by John Bellows"
g. Beers and Blacks.
4. The treatment of the Cape Beers
by the English Government, and the
Treatment Of the English by the Boer
Government
5. The Witness Of the Churches.
s. The Future of South Africa.
ESSENTIALS OF SETTLEMENT.
All these are published by said I'm
perial South African association" Ev-
publications.
1t transpires that this literature has |
been sent out to public school teachers |
in the Middle West and other states |
considered doubtful politically, and |
this work can have only one purpose, |
that Of creating sympathy among |
those teachers for England and against |
the Boer republics, in order that the |
influence OF these teachers may be en-
listed to destroy the sympathies OF
their neighbors for the Beers, who are
so heroically struggling for their lib
erty and independence, and thus JUS
tify the attitude of our administration.
The administration, by thus prosti-
tuting the bureau of education, which
more than all others should be free
from political intrigue and partisan
service, has committed a serious vio-
lation of law.
Government employees have perform
ed this work at the expense Of the gov
eminent, though it is stated that some
one else" has furnished the stamps to
carry these pamphlets through the
mails.
But this is not all. The administra-
ton, by defending England's action
and condemning that OF the Beers, has
shown that the pretensions to neutral
lty in this deplorable war were abso-
Iutely false, and that it has really SYM
pathiZed with England from the begin
ming; this also explains why the ad-
has permitted England to
10 many things that should have been
being violations of interna-
.ional law, and injurious to the cause
If the Beers. as for instance the seiz-
Ire OF articles Of American production,
lot contraband Of war. the purchase
" war materials here by England, etc.
1t also confirms the charge that the
has a secret under
standing with England.
These English arguments, used by
he administration, have been contro-
'erted by the Beers and others; they ,
re all based upon the assumption that .
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