Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1900-02-16
Truthful words.

taken.
Truthful words.
Following are the words of an ad-
dress delivered by Mr.. S. Darnell at
the pro-Boer mass meeting held at
Westfeld, recently:
''When the rulers of strong govern
ment, melted by a spirit of greed,
strike at the liberties of free peoples,
as the government of England is now
doing in South Africa, every true
American ought to put himself on
record.
SIN a.country like ours, whose free
institutions are the boast of it's citi-
zens; whose charter is the immortal
Declaration of Independence; whose
fundamental principle is that tall gov
ernments derive their just powers
from the consent Of the governed;"
whose heritage is the history of the
struggle of the revolutionary fathers
of the republic to establish freedom
among men, every citizen should be
sympathizer with the Beers in the
struggle now pending in South Africa.
Nor is it in America only that the
Boer should find sympathy. The strug-
gle of the Beers against the might of
England is struggle in behalf of the
oppressed everywhere. Should the
present rulers of England succeed in
stamping out liberty in South Africa,
liberty will be safe nowhere In the
world. The common people in every
land, whether they realize it or not,
have direct personal interest in the
outcome of the present contest be-
tween goer and Briton; for the pres
ent war on the part of England against
the Beers is, essentially, an aristo-
cratic war. We read in the dispatches
from the seat OF war of Lord This and
Lord That leading the armies of En-
gland in South Africa. We read the
plaintive plaint of young aristocrat
GENERALIZATION the Beers captured
and filled with bogus information
wherein he asks: care the men of En-
gland all fox-hunting?"
"No; Mr.. Churchill. Many millions
Of the men of England are condemned
to slavish labor for life for bare sub
sistence. They are not all fox-hunting,
by any means.
"The real rulers Of England are
the hereditary lords-the aristocracy.
And these rulers Of England have long
misgoverned and plundered the people
Of their own country. We hear much
Of the wealth of England; but few
thousand people own nearly all Of the
wealth of that country. About 10000
aristocrats own more than three
fourths of all the land of England,
while the many millions Of common
English people own scarcely enough of
English soil for agrave for themselves.
The hereditary lords Of England hold
many thousands of acres Of the land of
England as private parks-as play
grounds for themselves-while millions
of their countrymen live in squalor
and poverty. The common people of
England pay three hundred million
pounds sterling. annually, to lot OF
aristocratic loafers for the privilege of
living in their own country, while the
great ground-lords pay taxes on their
land on a valuation made in the year
1894. Ireland has been held down with
bayonets for centuries past in ord Ell
that English.aristocrats might rob the
people.
'"rhe English aristocrats, having
found it such an easy job to misgovern
and plunder their own people, long
since turned their attention to foreign
conquests. The gold of the Transvaal
is the present object of their greedy
rapacity. In order that few English
men may exploit the gold mines Of the
Transvaal, the English government will
Epour out the blood of English soldiers
like water; will devastate the Trans
vaal and destroy it's people; willsquan
der millions Of pounds sterling wrung
from the workers of England as tax
money. And it has been always so
The account of England's foreign con.
quests is smear Of human blood or
the pagessof the worlds history. II
would be asad day for the common
people of all lands should England sue
ceed in destroying the Tfansvaal re
public. The cause of the Beers is tn
cause of humanity.
Should England be successful it viii
not be long until other strong nation