The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-01-02
THE INTELLIGENcER.
IlFgEELINe. IANUARY 8. ZEE.
.enlnerla Titada.

me meeting held a. the Academy Of
Nude in New York. Sunday night, to
sxpresS sympathy With the eoers gave
Con FRESHMAN sulser an opportunity to
work On most remarkable speech,
and Sc improved the occasion % get IN
az or two against the adminlBtra-
ton which was taking advantage Of
party that could not defend itself.
edifsrs speech sounds like pack Of
mlttent hrecrackers that are ex-
bicded the day after the Fourth Of
Jniy, ana the expressions he made use
d sesm to come from q man who had
dihea too often One quotation Is
enough:
hSSe brave Beers are fighting for re-
ndhl canikm aglinHt monarchy; for demloe-
II against plutoetacys Tor home rue
o4Sth5f die bGyonet: for the e0VereiRnty
~ ~ ifiiv dual against the aanctlty Of
HI crown; for the ballot aG1inSt the
fhfdhO. for the love Of home Against love
~ Eold; for Saxon freedom against Brlt-
igh TAny LOT the lIseSFIIT ;,, 81 s1 Ta4
fii6f 6cho6ihouSe and church against the
0ffny barracks ana the milltary torti lor
fiilfi0uH freedom against torelHn DONNA.
hiaSin1 ~ fch 81 devastation; for free
inatitutlep5f against tmperaitsm, and'
Sbeve an, and beyond all, they are aght-
inf but for the rights Of man.
The Intelligencer Is mot championing
the causs Of Great Britain, except that
At would Ike 70 see fair play, There
are two well defined sides to the Trans
vaai controversy, and inasmuch as the
United States holds a neutral position,
4 would Be well to stick 70 facts. The
srensFlIs oe Mr.. sulEer, quoted above,
ale Tar from the truth. The party that
ttha New York congressman attempts
70 represent has. in geason and out Of
season, raised the cry against people
belng governed without thelt consent.
The UItianderS CoutslderS) in the
TrahsVRal represent between one-half
md three-fourths Of the population,
ana although they pay from Hve-sixths
TO nine-tenths Of the taxation Of the
country, they have no share Ia the gov
eminent. Such thing as the freedom
Sette press does not exist. In Kruger's
Z domains. The president Of the South
African republic can, on the advice and
.with the consent Of the executive, for
bid the circulation Of printed matter
entirely, Of for time, at his dlscre-
ton, and Il 10 within his power to pro-
tibit TIE circulation Of any Newspaper
he CHOOSES. This power has been exer-
clsed more than once. open-air meet
iIgs can only be held with the sanction
~ ne government and indoor meet
ings can be broken up by order Of the
police in terms Of the law.
Rdigio6s treedom2 DID Mr.. sulzer
know what he was talking about when
he claimed that that was one Of the
cohtantions Of the Boers7 Under the
consultation Of the Boer republic NO
Roman Catholic can ever be admitted
to u president, or 4 member Of the
executive council, or q member "a
eithSr branch Of the raads (congreSsl.
Yet ~ these people, that 10 the OUT
EidefS, are taxed to the extent Of $50
per head, q burden unparalleled in any
Other country. And they have no voice
whatever In the administration Of the
F4ventes. This 10 the religious freedom
that sulsor talks about, "the aTeside Of
civiIis6tion against the blazing torch Of
devailatlon;" "for the ballot against
tie throne" saxon freedom against
British tyranny" "tor democracy
against plutocracy."
IN vulgar parlance Mr.. sulEer would
appear 70 b "oR his base"