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THE BRITISH AND THE BOERS
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have an absolute right to forbid the
entrance of any other men upon that
territory. / recognize no such right.
L deny the right of the Beers, or of
any other $4,000 people, white, black,
or red, to map out even 100000
square miles and to forbid all the
rest of the human race to enter the
country, except on condition of be-
coming their serfs.
8. 1t Is said that the Beers must
be fighting for their freedom, or their
right to self government, because,
although there is not the slightest
pretense that anybody wants to de-
prive them of either of these, they
are, nevertheless, fighting so valiantly
But all history shows that men will
fight more desperately for the priv
ilige of enslaving others than they
will even for their own liberty.
There is nothing which the average
man loves so much as the power to
tyrannlze over somebody below him.
His own liberty is a small matter
compared with this. But it has been
proven over and again in all history.
The Beers are not fighting for liber
ty or independence. OF those rights
they are secure, in any event, and
they knew it. They are fighting for
the right of exclusive domination.
9. 1t is asked why, if the British
Government is beneicient, the Dutch
farmers of Cape Colony are inclined
to rebel against, and join the forces
of the Transvssl. The blindness
and madness of race sympathy and
hatred are quite enough to account
for this, just as they accounted for
the fury with which the Austrians
tonight to enslave Italians, even
though In doing so they fought to
enslave themselves. Their own liber-
ty never counted for anything with
them, as compared with the liberty of
kicking and cutting an Italian.
Why do Turks fight to enslave Ar
meaians? Turkish soldiers are most
brutally treated, receive no pay, re
ceive no attention when thew are
wounded but are left to rot. Never
theless, they will fight to enslave
Christians, just as long as other
Christians will allow them to do so.
10. The blindness of this race
hatred is manifested in the present
attitude of Germans and other Eu-
ropeans in this country. Not one of
them has ever suffered the slightest
injury from the British. Millions
of them have fed to this country to
escape from the expressions of their
own Governments. Yet nearly all of
them would heartily sympathize with
a European invasion of great Britain.
undertaken with the express purpose
of destroying its freedom and bring
ing it under the military dominion
of those Governments, which now
compel all their subjects to submit
for several years in their lives to the
cuffs, oaths, contempt, and brutality
of military officers. "Read trooper
$780,"
IL. A further striking illustration
is furnished in the race hatred which
leads to many Irish Roman Catholics
to sympathize DANGEROUSLY with
bigoted Protestant tribe like the 30.
ers who will not allow a single Ro-
man Catholic to hold the smallest
office, and who would, if they could,
Danish every Roman Catholic from
their country. Great Britain, on the
other hand, gives to all Roman Cath
ohcs absolutely equal rights, allowing
them to hold nearly every Office in
Ireland and large number of offices
in England, while in South Africa
most of the British Prime Ministers
have been Irish Roman Catholics,
and in Australia Irish Roman Cath
olics have held many of the highest
offices.
observe with the greatest salts
faction the Boer resolutions offered,
and sometimes passed, in certain
Boards of Aldermen. We all know
these Alderman. 1t is quite natural
and proper that they should sym
pathlze with corruption, extortion,
aud oppression wherever they are
found. These Aldermen are, more
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