The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-09-20
TINE SANE OLD ENGLAND.
Her soldiers Rasasinx the Trun.vaaf and
Spreading Di.sa.. and Ruin Among the
Boer..

Her soldiers Rasaxins the Tran.vaaf and
Spreading Disease and Ruin Among the
Boers.
Irish World
The story OF the manner In " hich
England is treating the Beers reads
like chapter from Irish history.
The court martiaIs, the summary
executions, the house burnings, the
brutal treatment of women and
children, the placing OF district af-
ter district under martial law. tho
making barren desert OF stretches
or country once covered nv fruitful
farms, the hunting down OF the
Beers as IL they were so many wild
beasts-ail prove that the brutal
Saxon who ravished Ireland has
not changed his nature. He Is to-
day what he was in Cromwell's
time and Is prepared to repeat in
South Africa the fiendish acts that
have made English rule In Ireland
synonym Of the most brutal tyr
amy known to the world.
In a letter addressed to the Mon.
itor OF San Francisco, Mr.. pinther,
the Secretary Of the .Transvaal
mittee Of that city, furnishes
srme details of the manner In
which the English have underta-
ken to bring home to the Beers a
realization Of 'the blessings" Of
British rule. 1t was General Sher-
man who, speaking as an expert,
said: "War is hell" When he gave
this definition he had in mind war
as conducted according to rules re-
cognized by all civilized nations.
The English in South Africa are
deliberately violating these rules
as they always violated them in
Ireland whenever by their cruel
and unbearable tyranny they drove
the Irish people into armed resis-
tance. The Tommy Atkins of TO-
day, like his predecessor in Ireland,
Is a savage with very thin veneer
icg Of civilization which is easily
rubbed off. as is proved by the way
he has treated the Boer women and
children whenever by the fortunes
OF war they fell into his hands
Here is the hellish work he is en-
gagged in as described in Mr.. Pin
theirs letter to the Monitor:
"Several thousand South African
farms have been burned down by
special orders Of Lord Roberts,
Generals Kitchener, Butler, Meth
uen, French, Brabant, Hamilton
and others. Those Beers who re-
mained peacefully on their farms
have been arrested on suspicion,
rounded up and sent as prisoners Of
war to Simonstown, st. Helena,
or even to the penitentia
ries. Children oe ten years Of
age have been carried of under the
pretense that they might perhaps
inform the fighting Beers Of the
movements OF the English troops
The Boer women and gi'ls, even the
children OF less than twelve wears
OF age, have been ravaged, and the
dreadful disease which more than
twenty per cent. of the English sol
diers and forty-four per cent. of the
English troops who served in In
dia are afflicted with, have been in
t1icted upon hundreds Of their vic
TINS"
The glare of those burning farm
houses and the shrieks OF those vi.
olated Boer women and girls tell
how England is making war upon
brave, God-fearing people whose
only crime is that they possess rich
gold mines which are coveted by
the robber nation OF the world. The
"accursed thirst for gold" drives
! England forward in the criminal
path on which she has entered in
South Africa. AS 1t is many day
since che parted with conscience
she is unrestrained by considera-
tions OF right and wrong. II she
can but clutch the gold of the
Transvaal she will pay but little
heed to the crimes against civiliza-
ttou and humanity committed by
her hired man killers.
In the meantime England has Of
ficiallv informed the world through
a proclamation of annexation is
sued bv Gen. Roberts that she will
hold on to her booty If the Beers
do not force her to let go of 1t. She
thus throws aside the mask Of hy-
pocrisy she wore at the beginning
OF hostilities when she declared she
went to war in the interests Of CIV
ilization.
The Father of "a Children.
Pn%bn,co~d%oo oorrns nar1or