The Saint Paul globe., 1900-05-07
DAVIS PLEA FOR BOERS
HE SAYS CECIL RHODES rs A
SCOUNDREL.

NEW YORK, May 8.-Webster Davis,
FORMER assistant secretary of the interior.
spoke at a meeting at the Academy of
music tonight, held under the auspices of
the New York committee to aid the South
African republics. He said;
"The great masses of ol1r neonle do
sympathize with the Beers They stand
Tor liberty, for civilization for self-gov-
ernmeHt and for peace Every effort
should be put forth by them to bring this
unholy war in South Africa to a close,
we should be ready to- hear the cry
Tor help from the struggling people from
the two little South African republics
For Chamberlain has attempted to domi-
nate and dictate in their internal affairs
just as George III. interfered in the af-
fairs of the colonies. Indeed England
| has trodden truth under foot and
trampled honor and good faith in the
dust. And were he to conquer the Beers
there is no doubt in the world that they
would be compelled to suffer as the peo-
pie of ireland have suffered for centuries.
British cruelty is proverbial And yet the
British nation poses before the world as
the great clVllizer, whose mission is to
subdue savage tribes and disseminate the
germs Of civilization among them Ac-
cording to their theory the Beers are
saVages and must be civilized even If
they have to shoot civilization into them
with 1-ydull6 guns ana QuIl QuDl outlets.
During the battle of the Tugela river,
1000 Lyddite shells fell among the Beers
and though at the Hague convention dunn
dunn bullets We're condemned by the rep
reSentatiYeS of the civilized world as fit
only for sayages, yet | have now in my
possession three uneXploded dunn dunn
cartridges that I picked up on the top
of Spion kOp, in the trenches that had
been occupied by the British troops, and
/ have also two exploded dunn dunn bull
lets that were given me by surgeon as
he extracted them from the bodies of
two dead Beers. To my mind this is
sufficient proof that dunn dunn bullets
were to some extent at least, used by
the aforesaid alleged civilized troops in
that engagement.
England has no right to peddle us
around through Europe as the tail to her
kite
That's McKinleyism," shouted a man
in the audience
''McKinley's all right" answered Mr..
Davis.
Hes a patriot, one of the common peo-
pie, like Lincoln, and the effort on the
part of British sympathiZers to connect
him with the British effort to crush lib
erty, to kill the two young republics, and
to rob and murder their handful of brave
martyrs is a crime, and must be resented
by every American patriot, Mckinley is
all right but there are men about him
who ought to be got rid of as quickly
as possible.
''I wish to God 100000 Americans would
arm themselves, and, with American
fleet, go to the help of the Beers If that
is not possible, then we can tell the world
that We do not sympathize with Great
Britain, but that we do sympathize with
the Beers.
There is not a grander man living to-
day than Paul Kruger, and Cecil Rhodes
is the damndest scoundrel unhung.'
Resolutions were adopted rendering
thanks to Senators Allen, Bate, Berry,
Chandler, Clay, Hale Harris, Hoar, Jones
(Ark), Kenney, McCumber, McEnery,
Martin, Mason, Pettigrew, Ross, Teller,
Turpie and Vest for their support of the
resolution expressing sympathy with the
South African republics, "Conjuring the
president to stand where the chief Of a
liberty-loving people ought to stand, with
respect to the wicked and barbarous war
that England, with the basest and most
sordid of motive, Is waging against the
heroic people of the South African repub-
lies, and calling upon the president in the
name of humanity and civilization to in
vite the great powers of Europe to join
in concerted demand upon Great Britain
to stop the war and respect the rights
and independence of the South African
republics.