The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1900-03-30
Rev. H. T. Shepard on the Philip
pines and the Transvaa|.
WE MUST HOLD THE ISLANDS
No Inconsistency in Supporting Our Col
onial Policy and Defending the
Cause OF the BOers-Nothing
Identical Between the
Two Wars.

"The Philippines and the Transvaal"
was the text of a sermon delivered by
Rev. H. T. Shepard at the Congrega-
tional church in San Francisco last
week. He maintained that the Beers
have just cause, but that the South
African war and the war in the Philip
pines there is absolutely nothing iden-
tical. In the course of his sermon Rev.
Shepard said:
"Imagination sees a false identity of
evils in the Philippine and the Trans
vaal wars. | take issue with SEEM
ingly English press organ of this city
that finds no logical consistency in the
position of friends of the war of the
present United States Administration
and of the Beers in their brave martyr
dom to principal In the latter war |
am democrat and an Irishman and in
the former an American and a republi-
can. Moreover, no true patriot has the
right to turn hairs breadth from his
ground because the Beers are defeated
in a war for right, to which they gladly
give their lives Theirs is cause that
death cannot destroy, and regret only
that the privilege of this same martyr
dom, whose glories our forefathers
shared, is not my own; yet, in the
thought of local Irish orator, liberty
will take care of itself. Liberty is in
vincible and deathless.
"Our recent conflict with Spain was
part of the destiny of a great and power
full nation. | contend that the motive
of this war was humanity and civil and
religious liberty. For party and com
mercial ends the war has been defended
by one of the dominant parties of our
day and condemned by the other, while
both were dogged and harassed by a
third that always wishes what it has
not, demands the impossible and seeks
to drive all the parties off the earth to
the end that it may commit suicide in
their camp. Some nations are born
with duties, some achieve duties and
some have duties thrust upon them
The Philippines were thrust upon us by
exigencies of war, and until some more
worthy critics than party croaking and
sectarian zeal attack us, and till some
more formidable enemy than CONNER
cial ambition threatens us, we wait for
our army to finish It's work for free and
stable government on the islands across
the Western sea, and we refuse to hand
them over to European rivalry and to
factional tribal strife.
'The present war of the Beers is a
part of the destiny of small and weak
nation. They were forced to trek away
from powerful foe with loss of rights,
of party and race; but one thing they
will die to save England has stolen
their land and waits to steal their gold,
but only God can take away their liber-
ty, and Go d is on their side.
"Gleaming gold and flashing diamonds
shed the light that awoke England to
duties of tolerance, of equal rights and
Of civilization The Beers are bigoted?
So were the Puritans, who have grown
broad with the years in spite of the
King and of Lord CORVALLIS, as the
Beers will grow if they are let alone,
and so of the duslSy faces of the Orient,
who are freed from Spain and blessed
by new friends that are not led by
monocled pride and peanicious greed.
Gold and diamonds wrought magic
change in Britain's policy. Uitlanders