Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-01-22
GREAT PROB0ER MEETING.
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lover of liberty should ferveutly pray
that they may be successful.
There is no doubt the administra-
ton is secretly in sympathy with
Great Britain. and rendering her all
the aid it can. Every patriotic citi-
zen of the republic should condemn
these pro-English tendencies.
II want to see the Beers win, and I
believe they are going to win.
GOD bless the embattled farmers of
South Africa is my fervent prayer, and
from the ashes of the conflict may
there arise a greater and grander re-
public, the glorious United States of
South Africa!"
Representative Champ Clark
of Missouri, said in part:
Wherever people are struggling for
liberty they should have the friendship
of all Americans.
1T is astounding that there should
be any argument as to that proposition
within the broad confines of his puis-
SAINT republic. Two years ago there
would not have been.
"In the elder day we would have
made the welkin ring; now, govern
mentally speaking, we are dumb as
oysters. Wherefore? Because Eng
land is a robber nation, we are ambit-
ious to become a robber nation; and
all robber nations must stand togeth-
er-for self-rsotection-and because It
is SO in English, don't you know.
That's governmental America. Mark
you, only Official America.
From its sordid and inhuman YER
dict We appeal to the unofficial masses
who make and unmake statesmen,
whom Abraham Lincoln affectionately
denominated "The plain people,"
THE Senate of the United States may
laugh to scorn Senator Mason's resolu-
ton o. sympathy with the Beers; but
the toiling millions of America will
send their sympathy and their hearty
God-speed across the sea to the brave
Burghers who are the best marksmen
on earth since Andrew Jackson's i'm.
mortal Cay at New Orleans.
"Why should we rot sympathize with
these sturdy defenders of their liberty
and their homes. They are in the right.
Not only ~ttat-they have five times
as much for fighting as our faith
ers had in 1916. The ~precedents ali
favor such action.
1--WE passed resolutions of sympathy
with the Greeks, struggling against the
Turks and N advocacy of these reso-
lutions Daniel Webster established his
fame as ar orator by his lofty impas-
stoned appeal to the moral sentiment
of the world.
Under the ieaG Of Henry Clay we
fastened to express our sympathy with
the nascent South American republics.
We did these things when we were a
lcSUlt EOlN.
Nov, tina. we are so strong that we
cannot estimate our strength. we have
fallen to the low estate of being John
Bulls client partner in butchering and
despoiling white men fighting valiant
ly and g%loriously for their affairs aud
their fires. It's the Beers gold and dia-
monds that the English are fighting for
and not the tights of the Uitlanders.'
Senator William e. Mason,
of Illinois, was first introduced by
Chairman Sulzer. He said he had no
apology to make for coming to this
meeting on Sunday night.
81 hold" he continued, that there
is no hour too sacred or place too dear
to speak for the cause of liberty. l
congratulate Washington, the capitol
of the nation, on a sympathetic dem
onstration or behalf of a sister repub-