The Washington weekly post. (Washington, D.C.) 1878-1916, 1900-01-23
Senator Hale's Strong Com
ment on Transvaal War.
DEyOUNCES BRITISH AGGRESSION
4 Resolution Calling Upon the President
Government Toward the Beers Made the
Text Of Sensational >peeeh-Mr. Hale
the Beers in Their struggIe for Liberty.

The adoption of a resolution in the Sen
ate Friday calling upon the President
10 inform the Senate, If not Incompatible
with the public interests, whether this
government had refused to receive ar
accredited representative Of the Boer Re-
, r-1iic, was made the occasion of speech
by Senator Hale. which, in its strong
anti-British sentiment. was almost sensa-
tionaI
Mr. Hale's speech was preceded by some
remarks by Senator Spooner. who thought
il gross impudence'' 10 demand Of tbs
Secretary of State information that was
necessarily diplomatic in its nature. &c
Which assertion Senator Allen, the origi-
nator of the resolution. made a vigorous
reply He insisted that the country was
entitled to the desired information, while
Mr.. Teller expressed his deep sympathy
for the struggling Beers.
1t was to an amendment offered by Sem
ato- Spooner that the resolution should
be addressed to the President in the ma
turc Of a request and not 20 the Secretary
of State as a demand, that Senator Hale
addressed himself. The amendment, he
claimed, was lot essential, but he add
ed. 1T is essential, in the present natural
and undeniable sentiment, of the Ameri-
can people, that either the President OF
the Secretary of State shall give TO the
Amrican people, through Congress or
through the Senate, full information as
to what has taken place" Then Mr..
Hale continued:
American Sentiment with the Beers.
81 do not fail to take notice that
throughout the length and breadth of
the land, the sympathies of the great
American people are in favor of the
struggle the Beers ere making to-day
TO maintain liberty. to preserve re-
publican government against one of
the greatest powers of the world. do
not doubt that the American people
agree with me that the war which
Great Britain is waging against the
Boer republic is the most fell blow at
human liberty that has been struck in
the last century: and / do not doubt
that the administration, representing
the great people in the States, feels
to-day as | feel upon the subject, and
as | believe nine out of every ten of
the American people feel
Senator Hale then read Balfour's speech
asserting that the Transvaal war had
knitted together every branch of the
English-speaking race in a common des-
tiny. and continued:
81 deny that the American people
are in sympathy with the administra-
ton of Great Britain in the war in
which it is engaged TO stamp out hu
man liberty. / deny that the section
of the English-speakihg race that lives
On this continent has to be carried on
and tied 20 its chariot wheel of war,
in the war that is being wagei against
the republic IN South Africa. When
the leader of the Conservative party
in the House of Commons stands be-
fore the world and asserts that he
must be met by some disclaimer from
this side. Nor do l wish complica-
lions or war with any people. | re-
member that We have not been so
much in love with neutrality in the
past that we could not speak up bold
~ for hungary and Poland, Armenia,
Cuba. and Greece. | do not know
low il is that to-day We must be asked
10 speak with bated breath in favor
of liberty because liberty is assaied
in Africa instead of in Europe, Asia,
OF America"
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