The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-03-28
so DECLARES Mr.. SULZER
Transvaal's Conquest a Terrible Blow
to Republican Institutions.
HOW REPUBLICANS RAISE THE WIND
Mr.. Pierce Does Not Know, But He Remembers
That Campaign Contributors on One DC
casion logged the Memory Of
Secretary Gage.
Secretary Gage.
(By the Associated Press.)

Washington, D. c., March 27.-Lively
debate covering wide range of topics,
including Porto Rico, Philippines and the
Boer war was engaged in in the House
today while the Army Appropriation Bill
was under consideration. At the outset
measures vast extravaganza and replied
10 structures on his course as to private
pension legislation. The published inter
view with an unnamed Republican Repre-
sentative, charging that the Porto Rico
Tariff was the result of a bargain for
campaign funds was again brought up by
Mr.. Pierce (Tenn).
Mr.. Steele wanted to know how the
Porto Rican Tariff bill could be used to
raise a campaign fund.
Mr. Pierce replied that he could not
give the exact steps but that vast sums
of money had been raised by the Repub
lican party in 1896 from various quarters
could not be denied. The contributors in
one instance had even logged the memory
of the Secretary of the Treasury and he
had not dared to resent the insult. Dem
ocratic applause).
Mr.. Hull Qowa), as member of the
Republican Campaign Committee, said no
man worthy of belief would make such
charges anonymously. Mr.. Sulzer IN.
Y.) denounced the Administration atti-
tude toward the war in South Africa. All
the pro- Boer resolutions, he said, still
slept in committee. II therefore" he
said fdesire to place on record my alb
horrence and condemnation of the unjust,
the inhuman, the predatory, the cruel and
the barbarous war the empire of Great
Britain is relentlessly wagng in South
Africa to destroy and exterminate two
brave little epublics-sisters of our own
and as free and independent.
America must do it's duty. The great
republic the beacon light of the world,
in the name of liberty, humanity and jusa
tce must demand peace and make that
demand good. We have the right to in
terfere and insist on peace. We have the
right to express our sympathy. We have
the right to aid the Red Cross Society.
international law gives us these rights
and we should exercise them. We SYM
pathized with Poland and with Hungary,
with Greece-with all the South American
Republics, with Armenia and with Cuba
in their struggles for freedom. Many we
helped. Why, ! ask in the name of all
that is just and honorable in the name OF
our glorious past, should We now refuse
to render moral support, our sympathy
and our aid to the patriots of South Af-
rica? Is the great light of the Republic
going out?
"A republic that has sunk SO low that
it glories in the downfall OF sister re-
public is in danger of destruction itself. A
republic that refuses sympathy to sister
republic struggling to maintain its inde-
pendence against monarchcal aggression
is unworthy of the name and in danger
of monarchy itself A republic that will
secretly aid a monarchy to destroy a re-
public and blot out its free institutions
is republic rotten to the core and will
soon fall like decayed tree on the banks
Of turbulent stream ito be swept away
forever.
In my opinion the defeat of the Beers
will be the SevereSt blow to republican
institutions that has been struck in more
than a century, and every friend of liberty
the world over should fervently pray that
Dom Paul may be successful The Admin
istratiOn seems to be secretly in sympathy
with Great Britain and rendering her all
the aid it can. Every liberty loving citi-
zen of the republic should denounce and
condemn these English tendencies
Of the White House. This Republic should
stand by republics-not against them. God
bless the embattled farmers of South Af-
rica, is my fervent prayer and from the
ashes OF the conflict may there arise
greater and grander republic, the glorious
United States of South Africa"
After speeches by Mr.. Sparkman and
others, the House at $40 p. M, adjourned.