West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1900-04-12
TUE AMERICANIsM.
What Il Patriotic Member OF Mckinley's
Cabinet Says OF the Beers.

MS resignation. nc VIII 20 on tn'
lecture platform in the interest o
the Beers.
In an authorized statement giver
out, Mr. Davis says that as :
result of his visit to the Transvaal
he feels impelled to tender his resig
nation as Assistant Secretary of the
Interior. He will at an early dat,
deliver lecture in the interests o.
the South African Republics. Mr.
Davis feels that this is the best wa,
TO arouse the enthusiasm of the
American people in behalf of those
Republics.
Mr.. Davis decided to resign be.
cause of the acceptance of an in.
vitation TO deliver a lecture on the
South African war, and he felt that
as an official he could not express
his views with such freedom as he
could as private citizen. The in
vitation was extended by non.
partisan citizens of Washington,
and was not inspired in any way by
persons directly connected with
Boer interests.
Mr.. Davis said of the matter:
alt is purely matter of sym.
pathy on my part. went to South
Africa unprejudiced, visited both
armies, saw much of the British
soldiers and people and also much
of the Beers. After seeing what
did | made up my mind that the
cause of the Beers was just, that
the two smallest Republics in the
world were struggling against the
greatest empire in the world fol-
home, justice and Independence.
The struggle seemed to me very
unequal The whole number OF
Beers including men, women and
children, is not greater than the
population of the city of Washing
ton, and yet these brave people
have the courage to put up the
greatest fight in history against an
empire of four hundred millions.
| concluded at once that my sym
pathies were with those struggling
for liberty and feel that the Amer
lean people should sympathize with
them in their fight for Justice and
independence.
"When | entered the train at Pre-
toria, on my return home fully
1000 men and women, mostly wo.
men, whose husbands and fathers
and sons were at the front, gathered
at the station to bid me good bye
and as the tears rolled down many
of their faces, they made the last
request of me that do thing
within my power upon my return
home to let the American people
know of their exact conditions; to
let them know how they had been
abused and outrageously misrepre-
sented by the English. The Eng
lish correspondents have no trouble
in getting their dispatches over the
cable lines, as they are controlled
absolutely by the British while it is
impossible for information regard
ing the situation from the Beers,
standpoint to reach the American
people. If l did not, as a free
American decide to listen to their
appeals my conscience would burn
and the faces of those suffering
people, as brave and as noble as
God ever let live in any laud, would
haunt me as long as l live. am
therefore determined to do every
thing in my humble way to assist
them. Their cause is just and in
God is their trust and in the light
of the past history of the American
people who went through the same
| struggle, / believe the Beers will
win"
Mr. Davis was asked what course
he would have the people Of this
country pursue in order to assist
the Beers. He replied: "Do any
thing and everything within their
power and let Great Britain and the
whole world know that The sym
pathies Of the American people are
not with Great Britain but with the
Beers and IN the interests Of human
ity and civilization. We should le,
the world know that such an unhoiy
war should stop and stop at once. q
SOMETHING SIBILANTLY SILLY.
Sturdy Caror1fa -fror4or, .o,,,,h ,