Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-03-28

W hA
Be a Blow at Tint System of Govern
ment-Hay Brings the Open-DoOr NegO-
tiations TO Successful Conclusion
Washington. March 2S.-There was
some lively debate in the house yes
terday during the consideration of the
army appropriation bill. Little of it
was pertinent to the measure. 1t COW
cred a wide range of topics. Porto
Rican tariff, the Boer war and the
Philippines. The charge that the Porto
Rican tariff bill was the result of a
deal for raising a Republican campaign
fund was referred to by Pierce of
Tennessee, but Hull declared that the
anonymous author of the charge would
never dare TO avow himself and be
branded as a falsifier. Sulzer made an
appeal for the extension of official
sympathy to the Beers in their Strug-
gle for independence and LentZ of
Ohio delivered denunciation of mill
tarism and the war in the Philippines.
His attack aroused the indignation of
Marsh of Illinois who in a bitter eN-
coriatiOn of the Ohio member, de-
clared that the latter'S speech was a
disgrace to the American congress. He
declared that he was responsible for
floor of the house.
Suffers Plea for the Beers.
Probably the feature of the debate
was Suffers plea for the Beers. He
said in part: Il desire ut this time TO
express and to place on record my
adherence and condemnation of the
unjust. the inhuman. the predatory
the cruel and the barbarOus war the
empire of Great Britain is relentlessly
waging in South Africa to destroy and
exterminate two brave little republics
sisters of our own-and as free and
independent. As an American citizen
and representative in congress l am
not ashamed to have il known that my
sympathy is now. always has been,
and always will be. with the heroic
Beers in their magnificent struggle to
maintain their freedom and their indie
pendence against the piracy of the cor
rupt Oligarcby now controlling the pol
icy of the British empire.
Would Go to War for Kruger.
America must do it's duty. The
great republic. the beacon light of the
world. in the name of liberty. humani-
~ and justice must demand peace, and
make that demand good. We have the
right to interfere and insist on peace.
We have the right to express our sym-
pathy. We have the right to aid the
Red Cross society. International law
gives us these rights. and we should
exercise them. We SympathiZed with
Poland-with Hungary-with Greece
with all the South American repub-
lics-with Armenia. and with Cuba, in
their struggles for freedom. Many we
helped. Why. l ask. should we now
refuse to render moral suppOrt-our
sympathy and our aid-to the patriots
OF South Africa? Is the great light of
the republic going ont? Is American
sentiment dead?
Opinion of the New York Man.
I'm my opinion, the defeat of the
Beers will be the severest blow to re-
publican institutions that has been
struck in more than a century and ev-
cry friend of liberty the world over
should fervently pray that Dom Paul
may be successful. The administration
will do nothing for the Beers and
seems to be secretly in sympathy with
Great Britain. and rendering her all
the aid it can. Every Hberty-lOving
citizen of the republic should denounce
and condemn these pro-EngliSh ten
denotes of the White House. This re-
public should stand by republics-not
against them. God bless the embat-
tied farmers of South Africa. is my
fervent prayer. and from the ashes OF
the conflict may there arise a greater
and grander republic. the glorious
United States of South Africa
OPEN DOOR POLICY AGREED on.