The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-07

Declares We should Express sympa-
thy for the Beers.

New York, May 6.--Webster Davis, for
mer assistant secretary of the Interior
spoke az a meeting at the Academy of
Music tonight. held under the auspices
of the New York Committee to aid the
South African Republics. He said;
"The great mass Of our people do sym
pathize with the Beers. They stand for
liberty. for civilization, for self-govern-
ment and for peace. Every effort should
be put forth by them to bring this unholy
war in South Africa to close AS Amer
leans, we are opposed to having our re-
public held up as a menace 10 foreign
countries whose sympathies go out
to the struggling Boers. All
foreign countries, since our war with
Spain, regard America as one of the
greatest ow ers Of the world Abroad to-
day repressntati and sympathizers OF
the Briis government are striving 20
create the impression that secret under
star ding or ell an, exists between our
government ard that of England. We can
not as American freemen, whose ances-
tors gave their lives for freedom and in
pendsnce withhold our sympashies from
the farmers of the Transvaal and the
Orange Free State as they chastise those
who in mockery of Britains great prin-
citles and in disgrace of her fame. seek
TO exterminate a civilized people and TO
destroy their liberty,
1--WE should be ready to hear the cry
for help from the'struggling people Of the
two little South African republics Fer
Chamberlain has attempted to dominate
and dictate in their internal affairs Just
as George Ill interfered In the affairs oil
the colonies Indeed, England has trod-
den truth under foot and trampled honor
fof tn he NJ
to conquer the Beers, there is no doubt
in the world that they would be COM
PEELED to suffer as the people of Ireland
have suffered for centuries. British cruel
" is proverbial. And yet the British ma
tion poses before the world as the great
civilizer. According 10 their theory the
Beers are savages and must be civilized
even II they have 10 shoot civilization into
them with lyddite guns and dumdum bu'-
let's. During the battle of the Tugela river
2,O00 lyddite shells fell among the Beers,
and though at The Hague convention dunn
dunn bullets were condemned by
the representatives OF the civ
jlized world as fit only for
savages. yet have now 10 my possession
three unexploded dumdum cartridges that
| picked up on the top OF Spion kop, In the
trenches that had been occupied by the
British troops, and ! have also two ex-
ploded dumdum bullets that were given me
by a surgeon as ne eAtractsd ttfetn from
the bodies of two dead Beers.
Numerous have been the incidents OF
British cruelty on the battlefields Of South
Africa, such as the abuse of the white
flag and the firing upon the Red Cross.
And the conduct of the British troops, es-
pecialy the Lancers, has no parallel In
modern warfare.
England has no right to peddle us
around through Europe as the tail OF her
kite"
That's MclKinleyism" shouted man in
the audience.
"McKinley's all right" answered Mr.,
Davis. HE is a patriot, one of the COM
mon people like Lincoln, and the effort
on the part of British sympathizers to
connect him with the British effort to
crush liberty, to kill the two young re-
publics and to rob and murder their hand
full of brave martyrs, is crime, and must
be resented by every American patriot
Mckinley is all right, but there are men
about him who ought to be got rid OF as
quickly as possible.
II wish to God 100000 Americans would
arm themselves and with an American
fleet go to the help of the Beers If that
is not possible, then we can tell the world
that we do not sympathize with Great
Britain, but that we do sympathize with
the Beers"
He denounced Cecil Rhodes as the most
damnable scoundrel unhung.