The Leon reporter., 1900-11-08
'hAKESP|EA FOR The BO[RS.'
Intervention Urged by One Who
Fought with Them.
TELLS Of MANY ouTRAGts.i
Says tho American People should De-
mand ut Once the Cessation of weyler-
Like Murders aid Nameless Atrocities
In South Africa.

New York. Nov. 6.-Arthur Lynch
OF the Boer army, who is now at the
Manhattan hotel. has sent letter to,
the New York Sun in which he says:
We are informed by the English
press that wherever the Beers, in
course of their legitimate operations,
have destroyed portions OF the rail-
way lines, the English troops have
burned all the adjacent villages and
farms. We read from the same source
that Boer women have been deported
from Jagersfontein and imprisoned a
few miles out of the city, and that all
Beers over IA years of age living be-
yond limit of ten miles from Bloem-
fontein are being surrounded and
brought into the city. Remember that
on the African veldt the burning of q
Boer farm means not merely that ex-
tent OF material loss to the owner but
absolute ruin and prospective starva-
ton to the whole family. 1t means
the alternative to the Boer of betray-
ing his country or facing death by
the bullet for himself, disgrace for his
women folk, hunger leading to death
for his children. And remember also
that it is from the English press,
which has been feeding the public for
the last two years on falsehoods and
calumnies against the Beers, that wa.
are permitted to gain even this glipmse
of the horrors Of South Africa. What
must the reality be?
II read that the report is denied that
Lord Salisbury has consented to the
release. of the American prisoners OF,
war who fought for the Beers. This is,
doubly regrettable, as according to a
letter which have received from Cey-
Ion, several prisoners have died there
The question of American intervention
has again and again been mooted. 1t
is quite feasible for the government of,
the United States to take action in
this matter on the basis of the resolu-
tions of The Hague conference and
humanity calls for something more
than mere perfunctory fulillment of
the form of proffered mediation. The
objection that the United States has
no concern in South Africa is both
cowardly and unjust. have pointed
out in various quarters the great and
growing trade which existed between
America and the republics Of South
Africa, and while the stars and stripes
now float in SO many parts of the
world remote from America, it is not
consistent with the dignity of this
country to allow her industries to be
ousted from South Africa as the con-
sequence of war of British conquest.
1t needs that the American people
should demand the cessation of these
Weyler-iike murders and nameless
atrocities in South Africa, and that in
their wrath they shall make the moral
power in America felt throughout the
world in declaring in tones which
brook no denial that this cursed thing
shall no longer offend the senses OF
man.
Appeal of Roberts.
London, Nov. 5.-Lord Roberts
sends from Pretoria a striking appeal
to his countrymen, to refrain from
turning the welcome of the home
coming troops into drunken orgy.
He expresses the sincere hope that the
welcome will not take the form OF
treating to stimulants, and thus lead
to excesses that will tend to degrade
those whom the nation delights to
honor. and lower the soldiers of the
queen in the eyes of the world which
has watched with undisguised ad-
miration the grand work they have
performed for their somewhat soyer-
eign country.