The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1900-04-19

"Did those six hundred and fifty
dead at Spions Kop and those hun
dreds who were killed in other bat
ties please the British?
care they laughing now?
"When you came through Lon
don did you see much laughter ?"
l told him Of the scenes in front
of the London war bulletin boards
the weeping relatives and the
sorrowing friends. He continued +:
"Yes, that is only one side of the
picture. Here we haye the same
scenes, only our casualties are not
80 great.
"Every home in South Africa has
been desolated, and the war has
only begun. Wait until the war
is ended and those who will suffer
on account of it will be numbered
by the hundreds of thousands.
"Did Chamberlain and Miner
and the capitalists who were back
of them think of those things be-
tore they drove az to the wall
Are the tears of widows and or.
phans to pay for the gold fields ?"
Secretary Reitz then told of q
second series of communications
between the president and Lord
Salisbury concerning the prisoners
who were taken by the British al
Douglas, Cape Colony, and who
although they became citizens OF
the Orange Free State, are being
tried in Cape Town for high treas.
on.
The president sent a cablegrau
directly to Lord Salisbury demand
ing that the Douglas prisoners be
treated only as prisoners of wal
and not as reasonable subjects O
her majesty, and stated that i
they were executed reprisals would
be made.
Lord Salisbury replied that i
one of the Pretoria prisoners wer,
injured both President Steyn anC
President Kruger would be hanged
at the conclusion of the war. Tht
president thought that was harsl
language to use, and, according t.
Mr.. Reitz's statement, replied il
effect:
eco ahead with your hanging
but remember that your son, Lor,
Edward Cecil, is in Mafeking."
Mr.. Kruger has had no reply t.
this message.
"My burghers are fighting brave
ly," he said, with much earnestnes
"and they will continue to do 8
until Great Britain asks for peac
or wlthdraws her soldiers. w
cannot expect to conquer seve
hundred thousand men in a day
but my burghers are going ahea
rapidly, as you can see by lookin
at the place where we kept ou
prisoners.
"Even as your forefathers tough
against great odds in the revolt
tionary war, so are we struggling
and even as God was with you
people, so is He with us. We hav
fought with England before an
we defeated her soldiers and W
will be victorious again.
"My burghers are fighting fc
their wives, their children an
their country, while those who al
fighting against them are lookin
for medals, Victoria crosses and
shilling a day.
"My burghers are the best so
diers In the world because they q
not receive penny for their sci
vices.
"They fight with their heart
and an army of hearts is invincibl
$50 surely as there Is a God
righteousness, so surely will ii
vierkl leur of the Transvaal be vi
torious. 1t may be month fro
now; it may be three years, bl
there can be no other ending"
"When you have been success
full" / asked, "what will you d
mand of Great Britain ?"
The reply came very quickl,
"We will demand nothing exec
that we shall be free and iDdepe
dent. We want no lands or port
only let us have the country, whit
is ours by right, and we shall
content.
"I and my burghers are willir
to end the war tomorrow If Gre
Britain will say that we are ther
after wholly independent, and
che will guarantee that those Cal
Colonists, who have joined ol
army shall not be molested al
that their property shall not