The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-12

reasons for his contention that the Nc |
Kinley administration was in secret
alliance with England in her war with
the Beers. He says IL there was ever
any doubt it was removed by the fact
that the bureau of education was for
weeks engaged in sending out sets Of
seven Pro-Engiish pamphlets to all
school teachers Of b West, Middle
West and Northwest. As will be seen,
this is a ~treacherous conspiracy which
the administration has deliberately en-
tered into with the English govern
ment for the ostensible purpose OF cold
ly and deliberately plotting to rivet
upon the patriotic Beers. the struggling
Filipinos, and the liberty loving people
Of America the shackles OF Old World
tyranny and RIGHTEOUSNESS. No ruler
ever perpetrated upon a trusting peo-
pie a more dastardly betrayal Of a ma
tons confidence han the facts in this
case will show" He tells nov by ac-
cident he made the discovery OF the
plot, and published it to the world. He
visited the bureau Of education and
had his suspicion aroused by what he
saw He made inquiries but answer
were evasive and non-committal. He
then opened one Of the packages, and
this angered the foreman who abused
him, telling him that no one could be
allowed to know what the packages
being sent out contained, and his was
by order of Commissioner Harris. He
had to explain saying he had no in
tention of trespassing or private pro-
perty but he could not be presumed
to 10y that a government office had
zone into the business of circulating
literature which was private property;
that he nae presumed that the Etera-
ture was either government publica-
tons or that they were publications
purchased by the government with
public funds for general distributions;
that if the publications did not fall
| within either of these classes, their
distribution from a public office by
government employees was a violation
of law, and that he was not supposed
to know that the government had en-
tered n a conspiracy with England
for, the purpose of secretly circulating
her imperialistic lies"
He was ordered to leave the room at
once. After this Mr.. Via procured in
an honorable way a set of the pamph-
lets being circulated and they were as
follows:
Beers.
Second-A letter to Senator Hoar on
the Transvaal Wal by John Bellows.
Third-The Beers and blacks.
Fourth-The treatment of the Cape
Beers by the English Government and
the treatment of the English by the
-, Boer Government.
Fifth-The witness of the churches.
Sixth-The future of South Africa.
Seventh-The Essentials of settle
ment.
All of these pamphlets were printed,
issued, folded and wrapped with one of
each of the seven pamphlets in every
package, securely packed in boxes
about five feet squar and shipped to
this country by the Imperial South
African Association, &c Victoria Street,
Westminster, S. W., London, England.
This looks very like there was a COM
" oOl"
M Mckinley. 1t was a conspiracy
formed to help create a public sent1-
ment in this country in justification OF
the cause of England in it's war upon
the two South African republics. Mr.
Via writes of the reason for this a1li-
ance between the British empire and
a republic in this wisea
THE motives of this conspiracy,
which Sprang out OF the secret alliance
between Great Britain and the admin
iStratiOn, are not far to seek The ad-
miniStration was eager to excuse it's
sympathy for England and against the
Beers in the British war of colonial ex-
ploitation and criminal aggression
in South Africa. It was trying in an
indirect way to justify it's atrocious
and murderous war in the Philippines
because it was aware that If it extend
ed any sympathy to the Beers, England
would practice retribution by extend
ing sympathy to the Filipinos. 1t
hoped to correct what Englishmen had
termed an erroneous impression in
this country with reference to the man
ner in which England proposes to be-
nevolently assimilate the Boer re-
publics."
1t was strongly suspected and the
newspapers stated that Hay and the
British had formed an alliance. Pro
badly it was done then, n the evil
dence given above is enough to estab-
lish it perhaps.