Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-06-03
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= SUNDAY. JUNE 3. 1900.
save moTHE SOUTH SYMPATHIZES
l psoEmien' WITH THE BOERS

eral contemporaries that the South
should eympathize SO strongly with the
Beers in their struggle for independence
against such overwhelming odds, seeing
that in the war between the States
England's sytnpathies were rather with
the South. To us there does not seem
TO be anything either paradoxcal or
inconsistent in the South's attitude.
The South sympathizes with the Beers
for the same reason that she condemns
.-sEsil NEiow that bas been pursued by the
49, ~ 80 ,y gG1l IlInlme toward the Porto
Atlantic Trust lr the same reason that
1e--im I'D heart and soul with
Big Money FOL attempt to give Ireland
We want a gooSouth is the most Dem
s snie 3 oversoots \ the Union, not alone
arc lower than any lso in the generic
IN the oni'e to si Ia:c 1t believes in Home
qHd t TT yWoRs gr bitter taste of
je3-l7-2t mouth. 1t con-
MAJ ANTED-sALEsN wherever it is
ieetors to workin India, in Porto
lsACTiIRiNG Co. 200 Gland or in South
1olk. Va.
IN our high grade ne Dccurute iheaS-
wins: large s;pretended sympathy
fes-sn-if =; Like all the philan-
=---tha' wiring the bosom of
,--oo..M' BsA, I That sympathy sprang from
a carefully calculated advantage. and
was capable OF estimation in terms of
pounds and shillings. England wanted
the South's raw cotton. that she might
make it into cloth and sell it back to
the South at q profit. She was after q
monopoly OF trade. That was all! 1t
acquits the South Of all obligations in
the premises.
Sympathy with tyranny, with oppres-
sion OF the weak by the strong, with
that gross commercialism which knows
E nothing higher than money values, has
never been characteristic Of Southern
adherence and disgust Englands
brutal DISREGARD of elementary human
rights. England's rule everywhere
means the same-it means exploitation.
Whether 1t be the tribute that her horde
of officials exact from Indiae starving
1HllloIiS OF tle Solu iiliileS VI the iThIlS-
vaal coveted by English companies
with shares to float. Loot Is the springs
OF her action. She is not nolo and has
nepcr been abouo the prostitution OF all the
4 popers of government to the unhoIy ends of
lprignte gain for her ruling class.
Certainly, in this present war, the
mask OF England is off! The sting of
A the Beers mauser has Been deep. She
will repay 1t with grinding despotism
Il that ID not to leave him shred of
independence" She proposes to crafty
at one and the same time. her lust of
Empire. her greed OF gold and her de-
sire for revenge. The miserable prcfchSc
that she had at heart the good Of the blacks,
That she went to war to prevent the OPP
preston of the Uitlanders, that in place
of q, degpotic olgarchy. she would give
! the Beers a government under which
y real liberty would be possible, this pre-
tense has served it's purpose 1t is too
late for foreign intervention. There
fire, the civilized world is given a hint
ospsxAst IL In store for the Beers. The
free State is made n military district
and tine English Premier announces
that NOT o shred of independence is
70 he left the republics" though the
a war vas begun on the grounds that the
( repasb It's had no independence but were
unruIy yassals!