The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-05-07
WEBSTER DAVIS SPEAKS.
wouId Like to See 100000 Ameri-
cans with Wsrships Go to
Relief of the Beers.


NEW YORK May 6-Webster Davis
former assistant secretary Of the interior,
spoke at 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 in part:
"The great masses Of our people do
sympathize with the Beers. They stand
for liberty, for civilization, for self-gov-
eminent and for peace. Every EFFORT
should be put forth by them to bring
this unholy war in South Africa to
close. We cannot as American treemen,
whose ancestors risked their lives for
freedom and independence, withhold our
sympathies from the farmers or the
Transvaal
chamberlain has attempted TO domi-
nate and dictate in their internal affairs
just as George Ill interfered in the af-
fairs of the colonies. Indeed, England
has trodden truth under foot and tram
pied honor and good faith in the dust
And We're he 10 conquer the Beers there
Is no doubt In the world that they would
be compelled to suffer as the people OF
ireland have suffered for centuries. Brit
ish cruelty is proverbial.
During the battle of the Tugela river
1000 lydditt shells fell among the Beers
and though at The Hague convention
dumdum bullets were condemned by rep
resentativeS of the civilized world as fit
only for savages, yet / have now in my
possession three unexploded dumdums
that | picked up on the top of Spion kop,
IN the tfcnEntS Iildt ndU DttH OCtuDltu
by the British troops. and have also two
exploded dumdum bullets that were given
me by a surgeon as he extracted them
from the bodies Of two dead Beers
Numerous have been the instances of
British cruelty In the battletields of
South Africa, such as the abuse of the
white flag and the firing upon the Red
Cross. And the conduct of the British
parallel in modern warfare.
England has no right to peddle us
around through Europe as the tail to her
kite" continued Mr.. Davis.
That's McKinleyism, shouted man
In the audience
"McKinley's all right" answered Mr.
Davis
'He is a patriot, one of the common
people like Lincoln, and the effort on ths
part OF British sympathiZers to connect
him with the British effort to crush lib
erty and to rob and murder the handful
OF brave martyrs, is crime and must
he resented by every American patriot.
Mckinley is all right, but there are men
about him who ought to be got rid of as
II wish to God 100 900 Americans would
arm themselves and with an American
fleet go to the help of the Beers If this
is not possible. then we can tell the world
that We do not sympathlze with Great
Britain. but we do sympathize with the
Beers.
There is not \ erander man living =.
day from Paul Kruger, and Cecil Rhodes
is the damndest sCoundTel unhung
should the British by overwhelming
numbers succeed I'm conquering the Beers
in the present struggle, IL viii avail moth
ing. Future generations will take up the
burden where their stricken fathers laid
It down and the outcome is certain"
Montagu Waite also spoke, He said that
he felt sure that Mr.. Davis efforts in
behalf of the Beers would be reaching
In the future and that the press of the
country Is being controlled In the inter
ests Of the British He said ttat eNca
religion is being used to msligu ne cause
OF the people ~ South Africa
Resolutions were adopted rendering
thanks 10 those senators and representa-
tives who have introduced resolutions iu
congress expressing sympathy with the
South African republics aud calling upCc
the president In the interests of humanity
and civilization, To invite the great pow
ers Of Europe TO ioin In a concerted de-
mand upon Great Britain 20 stop the war.