The Irish standard., 1900-12-01

fact we only hold the line of railway
in the two republics, which we have
so ostentatiously, but SO fruitlessly,
annexed"
And what is ths?-rcad it, you Wes-
leyun and other warmongers:
Not Il single Boer house in the
country between Dundee aud Nryheiu
has been lett standing. All have been
burned by the British troops
Are we reminded OF What Froudc,
the English historian, says i'll his Ills
tory of the English in Ireland on the
the conquest OF Ireland by the Eng
liSh?
The English nation We're shuudrr-
ing over the atrocities OF the Duke oI
were inilamed to patriotic rage and
madness by tales OF Spanish tyranny.
Yet Alva's bloody sword never touched
the young, the defenselesS, or those
whose sex even dogs can recognize and
respect. in justice TO the Eng
.liSn soldiers, it must be said that II
was no lault OF theirs if any lrlsn
child OF that generation was allowed
to 1--we to manhood. SO desc
late became Munster that the lowing
of Il COW ur the voice of the plough
man was not to he heard that year
from Uinylc to the Rock OF CasAel.
Yet we have read in some OF the
mercenary jlngo journals an advocacy
OF this same hcnuish policy OF eNter-
mination, and we know that Butch
women and children have been turned
out homeless to stlrve Oh the desert
vcldt OF South Africa.
That is how "Christian' England
for have not high ecclesiastical au-
thorities blessed the war-iishts i'll
these days.
1t only remains to notice one other
| instance of the bursting of the bubble.
The poorer class OF Outlanders, driven
from peaceful and remunerative ELL
ployment by the conspiracy OF the
classes and capitalists, are now starV-
ing refugees in Durham and Cape
town, unable to return to the Rand
owing to the war which was over, we
were told, half Il year back. They
are enraged and mutinous, and they
are beginning to tell the truth as TO
those by whom they have been SO
grossly treated and deceived. Thus
the protest of the refugee committee,
Capetown, against capltalistlc leslsla-
.tion in the Trunsvaal, after pointing
out that the distressed millionaires
only twelve years ago. were COIL
,paratively poor men, proceeds:
by introducing an unscrupulous
system of market-riyging, and with
the assistance Of Il process popularity
known as freezing out'-a species OF
financial boycott-we find them today
the financial bosses Of South Afrlc;
with enormous political power, sucl
as is conferred by the control of tht
leading organs OF the press, by being
the largest employers of labor ant
generally by the command of unllm
tied wealth.
The most responsible civil positions
in the TranSv;iul were Tiled by former
Representatives of the Interested cor
purutions, many OF whom, by virtue
Of their new offices, became lrmc,
with the most extensive powers Lon
prying into the private financial al
fairs OF the absent community.
This marvellous document also con
lemns Lord Roberts capitalist proci;l
nations calling upon the small towl
tenants to pay all arrears Of rent
tuXcS, interest incurred during the Wal
and 50 save the pockets of The grra
millionaire mine oWncrs. Thus tl,
surtllu game goes on. The unclcal
financial vultures are now lravcnln:
( over the spoils. The humbug o1
''patriotism,' etc, has been fun:
aside as being II tool no longer useful
And at the end of it all comes mex
years increased taxation and deprcs
sion of trade when the artificial Wa
expenditure declines. They form :
licr counterpart-the khaki patriot
and the Hooligan government!
And ut the end OF it I'LL, II new por
cent appears. by their infamous ut
.rnpts to inilame the worst passions .
thc bascst portion of the nation th'
inwucs ana their press have raised ;
r'rulllirnstrin monster, IN the shape
Of mOhs Of fcrOciouS animals, OF boli
sexes anti in human form. Many o.
lhc war organs have been 'ucplorin:
thr recent outbursts of Vile courscnes
on the parts Of the Naiiicking patriots
while one, on the contrary, published
in the west end of London, expressed
delight ut these evidences of originn
brutality as II sign that the Englisl
people have not lost their virility. Th.
West End will not be quite so s;ltislie,
when hortles OF these rutiiAn Muttickcr!
descend one day, With hungry bellies
:. from their slums and loot those ariStO
cratic quarters Of the town whcr'
dwell the oppressed millionaire Out
lantlrrs of the Transvaal, London i:
in the great coming danger.
To adu to the grim satire of it all