Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-12-27

MIN at ROdell in June sufficient winter
clothing for every burgher in the army,
3, 100 shells, and enough small arms to
ammunition to last his forces for three
years! And De Wet did this with less
than 5000 men!
Since last June the entire Boer army
has been supported by the British tax
payer. Almost every single rifle in
the Boer army was captured from the
British in battles, every cartridge and
shell used in our fights since June
was eaken from The British, all of
our commissariat supplies for man
and horse were taken from the British,
Whenever there is a lack of anything
in our camp we sally forth and take it.
from the British.
The English taxpayers are furnish
ing the sinews for both armies in South
Africa, and so long as the Beers can
Secure the necesSaries of war SO cheap
~ and easily, they need have no fear
that the national government must
issue bonds to carry on the struggle.
The Beers will continue the war by
years if need be. They will make it
necessary toikeep a. mighty force in
the country, and sooner or later Eng
land will realize that she cannot afford
to spend 500 million dollars a year,
year after year, when none of her Cit
liens except clique of mining men
can expect to gain anything by vast
expenditure.
Even now, six months after the an
nexation of the republics, the Beers
in such complete control of the whole
country that the 200, 900 soldiers of the
queen cannot wander from their gar
rison towns except in bodies almost
as large as our whole army. De Wet
and the other generals will continue
to make attacks upon the railways and
garriSonS they will make incurSions
into Cape Colony, where their Afri-
kander brethren are becoming daily
more bitter against the government
which is constantly make their lot
more uncomfortable, and they will con-
tinue to outwit their opponents at
every point, always bearing in mind
that when their food and ammunition
are exhausted the British are ready
to furnish more.
3 De Wet has recently secured hun
adreds of able men from Cape Colony,
men who have been disguised by just
such things as happened at Worcester
the other day when the farmers held
a meeting and the British lined the
surrounding hills with quick-tiring
guns to prevent free speech.
The annexation of the two republics
has been a slap in the face of every
Dutch Afrikander in Cape Colony,
and I am willing to wager my life
that the majority of the Cape Colon
lists will yet rise and assist in gaining
for their race that liberty and freedom
which are denied them by the British
govgrnmdnt.
We are making Roadway continu-
ouSly and the British army is in a
worse plight today than it has been
at any stage of the war. The British
occupy the larger towns, I confess,
but that is as far as it goes. Botha is
only few miles west of Pretoria and
has been there for several months.
They canuot drive him away and he
practically has them besieged most of
the time.
Somewhere down in South Africa
Christian De Wet and his gallant
Burghers are being pursued by $4,000
soldiers, with hundreds of massive
guns. Day after day he leads his
army of great-grandfathers and chill
dren to places of safety. Night after
night he stands in front of his tent.
and, calling his burghers together,
asks the God of Battles to guide and
direct them. He is not fair to look
upon, he wears homespun and his hat
has seen years of usage. He never saw
the cover of a book of military instruc-
ton, and he probably does not own
shilling in the world. He was butch
er and breeder of cattle before he
went into the field against the best
trained generals in England, but he
will lead our people to victory.
Holiday Rates.
On Dec. %. "a, 25, 81, 1900 and Jan.