Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-04-12

How many martyrs Of this age,
Have fallen victims to the rage,
or savage men more savage made,
by reason of some army raid
Retaliation is the rule,
MonG SavagcS of every school,
And when they fail slayer 20 trace,
They murder others Of his race.
Suppose, that, after strangling right,
hcathcn host is brought to light,
viii that restore to life tho slain,
And let them walk the earth again ?
suppose the taught all pious grow,
As many Of them doubtless do,
Will that remove the double curse,
BY which the millions have grown worscn
The double curse, through British greed,
Is her great rum and opium trade,
Degrading, brutaliZing more,
Than hcathen ever were before.
Can we forget Great Britain'S stand,
When civil war swept through our land,
How, while the neutral game she played,
''tS S'N' ''tii WV III ,DOllll llcI UlN
She thought to make us mad Marats,
TO fight like the Kilkenny cats,
That claw and tear, Of sense bcrcft,
Until there's nothing Of them left.
The scheme on which her mind was bent,
Was death to this free government,
In hope that she might yet regain,
Our land rs part of her domain.
That is the scheme in her ;.l'ra'
With frccmcn in South Africa,
Intent by force to put them down,
And rule them by the British crown.
And then tie lands the Beers hold,
So rich in diamonds and in gold,
Must pay the price of needless war,
TO safe the would he conqucror
Since three strong monarchicS allied
TO crush ont Poland and divide,
And hungary fell by Austria slain,
Who tackled her to her wide domain
No mcancr, baScr, blackcr crime,
In records of all modern time,
50 shock the moral sense to-day,
AS Briton'S war in Africa.
If mov,l from high and pure intent,
Io bless with better government,
And, in 5 wake, with Christian life,
HNc mars her work with all such strife.
That greed is her impclling elf,
And prompts in all to seek but self,
She shows by ovcrrnnning fields,
That promise largest mammon yields.
She fights famed Egypt rich of old,
And now the TranSvaal yielding gold,
why not pursue Arabian bands,
Amid their waste of desert sands ?
The Arabs need better rule,
Ihan that of the false prophets school,
Then why don't Britain force her way,
10 shoot IT ut chem, why not. pray ?
The reasons plan--thc desert sands
no harvcStS yield to toilng hands
y" gold produce or diamonds BRIGHT
IL would not pay her there TO fight
liut some pro-Hritish people claim,
The Bocr Republic is sham,
Since rulers many years withhold.
The ballot from those mining gold.
AdvcntrcrS, to new States drawn,
Who owe allegiance to some crown.
And this allegiance don't recall
Have no lust claim to vote at all
Ana British subjects free to roam,
But little voting did at home,
And never voted for king,
or queen, or lord, Or titled thing.
Why should they vote in Africa,
TO which they 60 for brief stay
Past history shows The true intent,
Is but to crush free government
JnSt two and fifty years have rolled,
Since Ca|iiornianS found their gold
And then, i'll one year from that date,
Thcy organized the Golden state.
In -four years from The precious find,
AdvcntnrcrS Of every kind,
One fourth million, perhaps more,
Had landed ON the golden shore.
Now Just suppose that, at that stage,
All men arrived at voting age,
Had been cnframchiscd by the state.
What would have been its ccltai' iatc ?
1t needs no prophets ken to !;
And here we have a parallel,
That shows how well great KRUGER
planned,
Withholding votes from tritain's hand.