The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-01-13
THE BOER WAR.
written for the Intermountain Catho-
lie

{Written for the IntermOuntain Catho-
lic)
New York, Dec 24-Since the com
n1encement Of the struggle in South Al
rica, Great Britain has betrayed an eA-
traordinary anxiety for American aP.
preval of her attitude towards the
Transvaal republic. 1t is certainly
Father amusing to read the speeches. %
her public men. and the comments Oh
her newspapers, expressing sense VI
their profound qualification at the man
ifestationS of sympathy and SuppolI
which the American people nave aus
played toward her in her present crlIl-
cal situation. They have gone so far as
to describe to their readers the cheers
with which we greet the news or BIT
ism successes and the CONSERVATION
with which we learn of British defeats.
They declare that in siding with them
we are merely returning the obllgatlou
they conferred upon us in our late war
by saving US from d European coahtloh'
that was determined upon the deStruc-
ton of our republic.
This mythical concert of the pow
ers' did good service during the past
year, but it had it's origin in the fever
iSh imagination of an obscure LONDON
journalist, and it has only been ae-
cepted as gospel truth by number OF
anglo maniac journals, whose alleg-
lance to British interests in America is
paramount to their loyalty to their own
government. These papers have been
challenged to produce one IT, one little
of evidence that such an IDEA was ever
considered or even contemplated by the
powers; and they have failed to do so.
On the contrary, we have the reiterated
denals of the ambassadors of the cOun-
tries concerned, as we'll as our own am
go
dating, without any equiVOcation
whatsoever, the whole story. All seri-
Gus observers of international affairs
have long since been convinced that
this alleged European coalition against
the American republic during the Span
ish war was an INSCRIPTIONS British
fake and hollow imposture upon the
credulity Of the American people.
The New York Tribune has been one
of the most offensive of the pro-British
journals to which | have alluded. The
South African republics have been sub
jected almost daily to the greatest mis- |
representation in the editorial columns
of that paper. 1t has not been enough |
to read the fraudulent dispatches which |
come over the British cables, but we
are compelled in addition to read the
sneering comments of those who resent !
the interference of the two republics |
with the imperialistic programme of |
Joseph Chamberlain.
few days ago the Tribune stated |
that the Beers called the British and /
"red-necks," and spoke con-
of their White flag" The |
original story appeared in most OF the
of the country without any /
alluSion to Americans. The writer de- |
liberately and maliciously interpolated !
the word Americans" for the purpose /
of discrediting the Beers and their /
cause in the United States.
1t is we'll known that, with the eXcep- |
ton of the half-doZeh American engin- |
GERS who took part in the jameson raid |
and who are in the employ of English !
in the Transvaal, the Ameri- |
can population is with the Beers, and |
manfully fighting with them in the de-
Tense of their country. No complaints |
have come from the Outlanders of other !
The Americans, Irish, /
German and French are satisfied with |
the conditions which prevailed in the /
Transvaal, and are now shedding their |
blood in behalf of the liberties of the |
republic. The statement that Catholics
are not eligible for Office in the Boer !
republic, so industriously circulated by
the British agencies in America, is not /
true We have the statement of DR.. i
Leyds that four prominent officials of |
the present .Transvaal government be-
long to that faith.
The Tribune and other prO-British !
organs have endeaVored to convey the .
that American sympathy is
with Great Britain. If newspapers are {
to represent the sentiment of /
their constituents, it is a. remarkable
fact that large majority of American /
are against Great Britain.
The Literary Digest has analysed the |
position of fifty-four of the leading |
thirty-four of whom ia
vored the Beers and twenty three the
British.
The question of expansion and anti
expansion does not cut any figure in I
their views upon this subject, many Of
The leading e2,pansionist newspapers
the Boer position. The New
Sun in a recent issue states edi
.orially that a large majority Of the
American press is with the Beers. The |
Catholic newspapers and nearly all the
of other Christian denom
nations share the same view. The
Ierman-American press, in fact, all
foreign press published in America, is
hostile to Great Britain. Large public
meetings have been held in New York
and other cities which leave no doubt
rs to American 81 apathy in the South
African war. Ma, meetings have been
held in Chicago, st. Louis and other
titles of the Union in the interest of the
Beers. Another large meeting is to be
leld in New York within a few weeks,
which will exceed the great assembly
leld recently in Carnegie hall. At the
after meeting q dozen governors of
States and over a hundred Congress
nen and Senators telegraphed their
and over five thousand of
he leading citizens of New York
,heered the resolutions eulogistic of
Dom Paul and his people. If American
is with the British as so
oudly proclaimed by the Tribune and
| few other newspapers, why is not a
Meeting gotten up in their interests? 1
I'm afraid that John Bull has been de-
,eived by his fool friends in this coun-
ry or that he attaches more import
lnce than it deserves TO the movement
gotten up by American women for
British hospital ship. 1t is rather a
ignificant fact that but three of the
llleged American subscribers to this
hospital ship made any contribution
oward the Red Cross movements in
America. during the Spanish-American
II. the Philippine war So much for
heir Americanism. do not deny that
here is some sympathy for Great Brit
in in this country, but I claim that it
will be found only in the vicinity of
Vail street. The American sympa-
hizers with Great Britain could be
accommodated any day on
he floor of the New York Stock Elk
hange, and they would have more