The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-05-21
GREET u)ERS WARMLY
AN IMMENSE AUDIENCE AT THE
DEMONSTRATION FOR THE EN-
VoYs IN WASHINGTON
hANY OFFICIALS ATTENDED
CHAIRMAN SULZER DECLARED
NINE-TENTHS OF AMERICA
ARE AGAINST ENGLAND
VISITORS SPEAK BRIEFLY
They Explain What They Hope for
by Coming Here and Tell of
the Life of Their
People.
aANY OFFICIALS ATTENDED
VISITORS SPEAK BRIEFl

WASHINGTON, May 2O.-An audience
remarkable for Its size, sympathy and
enthusiasm greeted the Boer enyovs at
the reception given in their honor tonight
at the Grand opera house under the aus
pices of congressional and citizens COM
mittees. Long before the time for the
meeting to open the house was crowded
to suffocation and many were turned
away unable to gain admittance The
interior was appropriately decorated with
the national tri-colors of both the United
States and the Transvaal.
While officially Washington was not rep
resented in any manner, there were prob
ably thirty members of the senate and
the house occupying seats in the audito-
rum and on the stage.
Speaker Henderson was in one Of the
boxes and others present were Senators
Daniel, of Virginia; Teller, TiIlman, Pet
tigreW, Mason and Wellington; Repre-
sentatives Shafroth, Atwater, Slayden.
Glynn, Rupert, Gaines, Latimer, Lentz,
Suber, Lands, Linney, Ryan, Greene,
Henry (Mass), Hay, De Almond, Clark
(Mo), Meirs, Rhea (Ky.). One of the
boxes, it was stated, had been reserved
Tor the president, a committee having
been sent to the White house with tick
cts of admission to the opera house, but
no representative of the presidents Of
fetal household was on hand.
Chairman Sulzer, of the reception com
mittee, presided, and a number of adj
dresses; all of them patriotic in charac-
ter and earnestly supporting the cause
of the Beers, were made, including those
of Mesrs. Fischer, Wolmarans and Wes-
sells, the Beer ENJOYS; Senator Yelling
ton, Hon. Bourke Cochran, of New York,
and Mr.. Sulzer. The in q alton was
pronounced by the Rev. Father Mackin,
Of this city
MR.. SUFFERS TALK.
Chairman Sulzer was the first speaker.
After welcoming the ENJOYS and emphat-
ically stating that the occasion was non
partisan and non-political in character,
he said in part:
In my judgment nine-tenths of the
American people are against England in
this bloody war of conquest for sordid
gain and in sympathy with the B9,s.
The best thought of England condemns
the conflict, and the awakening con-
science of the British empire demands
ity Christianity and civilization.
In 1776 the patriot fathers Of this
republic fought England to gain our in
dependence. The South African patriots
are today lighting the same country to
maintain their independence. That is
the only difference.
1--WE sympathized with Poland with
Hungary, with Greece, with all the
South American republics, with Arme-
MIA and with Cuba in their struggles
for freedom. Many we helped. Why,
1 ask, in the name of all that is just
and honorable, in the name of our glori-
our past, should we now refuse to lend
our moral support, our sympathy and our
aid to the patriots of South Africa? Is
American sentiment dead?
England is now and always has been
the aggressor against the Beers, and
compelled the Beers to strike first. The
Beers will never surrender the love of
liberty. They can only be conquered by
being exterminated, and England must
not be permitted to exterminate them and
steal their homes. Her criminal march
of devasta ton must and will be checked.
God grant that the English army may
never reach Pretoria"
THE ENJOYS INTRODUCED.
The three ENJOYS were introduced IN
turn by Mr.. Sulzer and each of them
was given a cordial reception. Their
remarks were listened to with close at
tention. The audience gave a standing
greeting to Commissioner Fischer, who
told his hearers why the ENJOYS hao
come to this country and what they
hoped to accomplish. His remarks were
very much in keeping with what he al
ready has said in published interviews.
I'VE have come across the seas from
two different republics he said, ito see
whether here in the hearts Of the people
of a great sister republic the spirit Of
more than hundred years ago is still
alive, whether the sentiment that caused
its people TO take up arms to obtain
it's freedom is strong enough to recognize
the feeling possessed by US. We come
to you as great Eberty-loving people in
whom the sense of justice and fair play
is strong and look to you to find a prac-
tical scheme to obtain peace with JUS
tice. 1 cannot dilate on the causes