The age-herald., 1900-05-09
POPUL|STS HAVING
 LIVELY DISCUSSIONS
The Paramount Question is the Naming of Rum
 hing Mate for Mr. Bryan.

States to settle hers.
 When the American navy had sunk the Spanish fleets at Manila and at Santiago the F"~lish hastened to tell us how much they thought of us. When did they be- come such friends of America?'
 Here a heavy rain, falling on the roof of the theatre drowned the voice of the speaker, and what he said could not be distinctly heard. This condition lasted for two or three minutes Continuing MT. Davis said:
 Today England is holding out that the United States sympathizes with Great Brit | tain; that the American people are friendly l to the English. It Is bluff that England | is using to keep other countries from go- | ing to the aid of the Boers.
 The Boers in the two South African re- l publics-men, women and children-do not number 100000. When they found a few | diamonds and a little gold, England said | she didn't like republics any way. Great Britain complains that the Boers began the war. Yes, the Boers would not wait until 300,000 British soldiers could be | massed in their country. Then it was they struck for liberty. No greater crime was ever committed than England is now com hitting. And some of the missionaries are guilty of helping in this crime. I always be- lieved in Christianity and in missionaries But some of the missionaries fell so low as to marry black Africans The Boers would not recognize them. They poisoned the minds of the British against the Boers GO into the British camp and you see the men playing cards, drinking whisky. and hear them curse Go into the Boer camp and you see them on their knees praying to God for victory They pray to the same God that George Washington prayed to at Valley Forge. We speak of them as ignorant savages, and vet they are enlightened, and some of them are col lese graduates never met but three men lhat could not speak the English language. Roasts the American Press They tell us that the Boers would not allow outsiders to come into their country or participate in their government. You dont get the facts in the newspapers of thls country. The British control the ca pies. The Boers do not allow correspond eh.s inside their lines, and it is well they do not, for they can lie enough on the out slae. What have you seen in the Birming- nam papers favorable to the Boers? Moth Ing, and you won't. There is a systematic method to keep it out.
 England wanted to name the men who niled the offices and permit them to retain tnelr allegiance to the queen. You would not permit that in this country. One JTit lander few years ago worth s2.O0O two years later was worth g, ,00O 00O When Kru- ger went to the Uitlanders to pacify them they would not permit hirl to come near them. They followed him to a house over %iea ,a iioa,ed u ifansVaal flag and crowded anout the fence and pushed it down.
 MT. Davis told of the Jameson raid saw ing 1t was an effort to capture the republic. but that the Boers heard of it and that n l rev or the farmers went out and captured 'hem' The British, he said, were white washed In England and that while prison- CTS Jameson and his raiders could have been hung, but Kruger would not hang them. e
 Never did a flimsier pretext emanate rom European court" said the speaker.
 than this pretext of England's in bring ing on the war. Their pretext was the franchise for the Uitlander and yet Presi- dent Kruger invited all to come to the republic.
 They tell you the Boers are savages and at The Hague conference the dunn dunn bullet was condemned. Here is an unexploded dum-dum bullet' said MT. Davis, displaying a specimen, picked up in a British camp and here is an exploded dum-dum shell taken from the body of a wounded Boer. Did the Boer put it there? "Cronje with handful of men for days and weeks held back 60,000 British and surrendered only when it necessary to save the women and children
 The two greatest generals in the his- tory of the world have been banished to St. Helena. One fought to satisfy his ann bition; he waded through rivers of blood and climbed mountains to gratify his ann
 
 were Napoleon and Cronje. The greatest of these was Cronje.
 Drew Contrast
 The speaker contrasted the prisons of the British and the Boers saying the English prisoners were well treated and given plen- ty to eat and good airy rooms, while the Boer prisoners were crowded into small rooms. He said the Boer army comprised 40, 900 men and the British 300,000.
 He said the British could have 20 to l against the Boer and still the Boer would win.
 America may sympathize with the Brit ish if she is built that way But the United States can let it be known through out the courts of Europe that they are neutral, and somewhere in this world will be a people who love liberty enough to help the Boers. They say the Boer will not fight, but mere handful of them held at bay 5000 British at Spion Kop."
 He told of the battle of Elandslaagte, saying that 750 Boers, with two old guns, held back 5000 British with eighteen guns.
 A Bit of Sarcasm
 q have only given you one side of the question this evening"" said the speaker, "as I understand you have only had the other side here. I spent several months in South Africa and any true American who will go there will sympathize with the Boers. They dream of South African re- public. A republican form of government, SD far as it has b( m that country, bas heen A succa the Boer is per- mitted to hold hil rand, that great coun- try will offer the very best of opportunities for American energy and enterprise If England gains control, only England will develop it.
 America has as much right to annex Canada as England has to annex the Boer. If we are so fond of expanding let us ex- pand towards Canada.
 Long live. liberty and the Boer republic! Such valor and heroism have never heard before. It is '76 over again. I saw at Spion Kop man and his two boys, one barefoot ed and but IA years old, with rife in hand. There, side by side, father and sons fight ing for liberty. The spirit of 1900 in the Transvaal is but the American spirit of '76 over. Again at Spion Kop saw white haired old woman with rife In hand fight ing side by side with her husband for ib- erty.
 If England wins. as she hopes to do. but do not believe she can. the world will ,,o+ haya racnaof for renublics hereaftar