Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1900-08-03

Richard Harding Davis.


IAN Embellishments house is his cas-
tie and he can defend it accordingly,
is the oldest of English adages. The
Boer has been merely defending his cas-
tie. You can make nothing more of
this war than that. The Englishman
will tell you there is much more to it
than that he will talk glibly of a fran
chise which he never wanted, of unjust
mining laws and restrictions which are
| much more generous than those he in
stituted in British Columbia, and which
he could have avoided had he not found
he was growing rich in spite of them.
by simply remaining in his own coun-
try; he will try to blind you by pleading
that the war was forced upon him by the
Beers ultimatum, an ultimatum which
came only after he had threatened the
borders of the Transvaal with 10000
soldiers,
He will present every excuse, every
sophistry, every reason save one, when
is that he covets the Beers watch and
chain and is going to kill him to get it.
1t Is too late now to 90 into the Injustice
of this war. The Boer has lost heart
and is falling back, leisurely, as is his
wont, but still falling back. Before this
letter reaches America h end may have
come and the English will be pumping
the water out of the gold mines they
have fought so long and so hard to win.
1t is possible that the gold may repay
some few of them for their losses. but it
will not bring 1000 men back to life
again 1t will not restore the lost prestige
of the British army, nor pay for the Ill
feeling of Europe, nor for the loss OF
what was once Great Britain's hope-an
! a II Ito, xuith fIo ITnitpn StQtnS-
'Never envy Il man his riches until
YOU know what he did to gain them is u
saving as old as Epictetus, and who will
envy England her slaughtered, bleeding
republics. now that we see the price they
have costher,
Except for the excellence of her trans
port service. it has cost her her former
place as a military power. her position
As IA religious nation. Even her arch
bishop of Cape Town is today with
thumbs down, bowling in the name OF
peace for the complete and utter q
termination of the two PROSTATE states.
1t has cost her the right to speak again
in the name of Christianity, for the chief
loot of her soldiers is the Bibles they find
upon the dead bodies of the men they
have killed. 1t has given her a DreyfuS
scandal of her own, and by the light OF
the homes she is burning 10 the Free
state she can read her acts as h read
the bulgarian atrocities
This may seem hys'erical and unjust
but it is time. now that it is too late, that
we should see clearly what has been tax
ing place while the world sat idly by
We have been misinformed and blindeC
by a propaganda against the Boer, q
manipulation of press and parliament
which has never been equalled in dexter
ity of misrepresentation nor audacity OF
untruth, not even by the boulevard
journalists who live on blackmail anC
the Monte Carlo s%ustenance fund
The murder and robbery of o Boer OF
the veldt is no less Il murder and robbery
than though it had taken place IN White
chapel or Fifth avenue.
The BOer has been murdered and rob
bed, aid the fact that before his life wa
attempted his character was attacked
/ and vililied Is not the least of tire sins 70
, which the ''empire builders of kimber
lev, johannesburg and the colonia
office must some day stand in Judgment