The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-01-25
DEFENDS THE BOERS.
City Attorney BOhmriCh Delivers an
Address to the Wisconsin Trans
vaal Association.
ToRYIsM FOUND RESPONSIBLE

The Same Faction and the Same Party in
England Which Were Responsible for
the American Revolution now Backing
English Arms in the TransvaaI.- Eng
lish People are Not Behind the war
An Eloquent Appeal for Justice.
At the meeting of the Wisconsin
Red Cross Transvaal association in
Milwaukee last evening among the
speakers was Attorney L. G.. Bohm-
rich, of this city. He delivered an
eloquent address, speaking in part as
follows:
It is evident to all who have watched
recent events, that the Beers are not
recreant to the historic courage, brav-
cry, industry and thrift of their fore
fathers, and in their present struggle
we are reminded of the old Holland
spirit which successfully threw off the
Spanish yoke some FIVE hundred years
ago and annihilated the tyrannica1,
yet mighty, government of Philip the
Second. 1t was this same force of
character which inspired them to leave
their native land in search of religious
liberty and which made them take up
their abode in the unbroken wi1ds of
South Africa. Soft it is true that his
tory repeats itself, then the same Old
Holland spirit may again successfully
throw down tyrannica1 foe and mark
the disintegration of nation which is
endeavoring to perpetuate the methods
of the robber-barons of the middle
ages.
We hear the English with brazen eff
frontery claim for their rapacity in
this struggle the sanction of divine
benediction. I ask, do they claim this
| because they are DESTROYS to force the
same benefcentsgovernment upon the
Beers which they have bestowed, in
utter disregard of right and justice,
upon poor old Ireland? Or is it the
same benifcent government which
they have inflicted for centuries past
upon the people in India, whereunder
millions of their subjects have per
ished?
1t is blasphemous Hp-service to foist
responsibilities of partnership upon an
ali merciful God in a war of plumber,
conquest and subjugation and flag
rant disregard of the law of the
mount, ''Thou shalt not take the name
of the Lord thy God in vain.'
The Beers are fighting for the pro-
lection of their homes and firesides,
against greedy, Unsuitable foe, whose
hands have often dripped with the
blood of American soldiers, shed in de-
Tense of American homes, firesides,
liberty and independence.
To the credit of the masses of the
English people be it said that this war
is not of their making nor of their 1ik-
ing and approval. We see in it again
the polluted hand of the Tories, every
where and always visible when it
means to centralize power and throttle
the rights of the many for the benefit
of the few.
There are wars holy and wars I'M
holy. Within the memory of the living
regretab1e, but holy war was fought
upon American soil; holy, because it
was fought to prevent a division of a
family of states banded together to en-
sure each others interest in the pursuit
of happiness. At the same time war
unho1y was waged on Europe's CONT
nent, establishing the brutal doctrine
that Fright is subservient to might.
In 1901 we witnessed a war on Eu-
ropes continent, holy on one side be-
cause it was fought for the protection
of home and freside against a cruel
invader resultant in the unifcation of
mighty people; unho1y on the other
side because prompted by wanton greed
resultant in humiliation and defeat Of
its prosecutors.
In 1898 we see a great American peo-
pie declare in holy war to drive for
eign oppressor from domains situate
within the shadow of cold Glory and
proudly place Americas banner upon
the rock of charity, humanity and
justice.
Holy wars adds to the g1ories Of a
nation, while history yet to be written
by civilization encompassing in it's
trucst and broadcast sense the ''F 1ther-
hood of God and Brotherhood of NAM,
will record the other as a soiled spot
upon the escutcheon of the invader.
The effort of the Wisconsin Trans
vaa1 Red Cross Association, to aid
soldiers wounded within the Boer lines
is worthy of the liberal contribution of
every American who has not yet for
gotten his country's lofty principles.
It is charity as pure as ever planted by
divine inspiration in mans heart and
gives testimony of the promised future.
sWhen the war drum throbs no longer,
And the battle flags are fprIed,
In the parliament of man,
The federation of the world.
WORLD WAS TOO HARD