The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-06-08
CORDIAL GREETING
TO BOER ENJOYS
Continued From First Page.

| deserve at some future day Our syn-
pathy plainly and moderately, expressed.
| may some day aid them in their struggle.
| (Cheers) My friends, the integrity of
| two republics Of South Africa is not all
| that is involved in this struggle, but thera
| are other questions of significance and
| import. The -'~ht of those aliens who
/ occupy the soil to exploit it's treasures for
the benefit of favored class. is not the
| least of these Would that every nation
| of the world could only take the true sig
! nificance of this conflict to heart. Would
that all might learn the true facts as we
| shall hear them. without distortion and
| without eXaggeration.
Il again extend the greetings of the
| people OF Minnesota to our guests and
| with them our hearty welcome to the
city. and to the great state which we
represent" (Applause)
DEFENDS HIS COUNTRYMEN
Before Dr.. Fischer was introduced. the
band played "Het Volksleid," the ma
tional anthem of the Beers. and as the
| dignifed representative of the Free State
walked to the front Of the platform lie
also received an ovation. His address
| dealt largely with the allegations against
the two republics on which England has
sought to base a claim that the struggle
is just one. Said he:
1t cannot but be gratifying to us. COM
| ing from far away, where our brethren
! are at present fighting and dying for
| freedom, to find in this land, and in this
city, where patriotism and freedom are
| held in high regard and respect, such
| royal welcome and greeting. We came
to the United States to spread the
truth, fearing perhaps that the charges
| made against the South African repub-
| lies from English sources might have
| biased the consideration and sympathy
which we would otherwise have expected
! from the United States. We come to
| tell you facts, and have found nothing
| but encouragement in our efforts. We
have found that you understand the
| merits of the present conflict and i'm
partially weighing the evidence, have
| given US our fair dues. Especially has
this been true of the press of the United
States, and the differences Of opinion
which we have witnessed here have been
! no more than natural.
We are not the aggressors in this
struggle. but the defenders of what your
fathers fought for 100 years ago (Cheer.)
| We fight against the same foe with
| , which you contended, you against 25,0OO
| and we numbering $4,000 against 10000
We came to to this country prepared to
refute English lies concerning the South
African republics and their people, but
| found you already with US in the strug-
| gle.
We have been charged with being
| barbarians. Recently, at The Hague,
| there met body Of men representing
| the nations Of the earth and their delib-
erattons resulted in the formation Of GER
| tain rules and principles governing the
| relation of nations. We followed these
same principles in our conflict and ex-
pected England to do the same. Our
| demand that they be lived up to was
refused. Thus are we barbarlans; II
might be not right, then need England
stand as a nation Of barbarians But
| yet we shall live to see our rights estab'
| iished through might
AS TO SLAVERY CHARGES.
We have asked in vain for proof Of this
assertion from English sources. Not one
| lot of evidence has been adduced but on
the contrary that nation stands for con
! slant repetition Of the story, believing
that a lie told often enough will come to
| be accepted as fact. Again they have
| were nations fostering slavery and IN
! dulgIng in slave dealing. When We go
back a little way In the history CRY OF the
| once before England annexed the Trans
wall without leave or notice. What did
they find then, slaves? Not one in the
entire country which they sought to take
from us. Since that time so many Eng
lish have come to South Africa that their
| numbers in proportion to the population
! have become considerable. Why, then, II
slavery existed, has it been so late in the
day that the fact was published abroad?
Not one Englishman in the South Afri-
can republics has found a slave held by
the burghers. This is the reason. But if
we look on the other hand what do we
find--in Rhodesia, for instance? What
has become of the blacks who inhabited
the land when the English first came to
the number of thousands. There remains
a mere handful The remnant were ex-
terminated, DOunu into slavery as 1CtllGi
and real as that which existed in this
country before your late war. Where
are the blacks, then? In our camps and
commanders. And thus 1t has come that
they have fled to us during this struggle,
aiding us in the conflict helping our
cause and contributing of their means to
| its success.
I was one who went to the blacks for
contributions when matters approached a
Crisis: What did we find then? We
found that contributions from them came
flT tiyanae hoo L.
son to anticipate or expect. More than
this, when burgheTs left their homes for
the front, leaving only the women on the
! lonely Veldt to care for the farms who
staid behind to aid them in the manage
ment of their holdings? The blacks le-
manned, and in many a Boer home to-
night blacks are aiding in the work while
the fght1ng men are at the front defend
ing their homes and their liberties This
| under q condition of semi-SlaVery would
have been impossible.
AS TO LIMITS ON SUFFRAGE.
We have heard it talked that we re-
fused to grant the franchise to the Eng
l1sh who settled in our borders. This is
true, but with excellent reason. Those
who came were not those who desired
to cast their lot with us or to become
| permanently our people. They came to
make money and cared for nothing else
They refused to take our oath Of citizen
ship, which was not more strict than
your own. We modified the oath and
yet on technicalites and bubbles they
still refused. They demanded that we
furnish full suffrage to those who would
become Boer citizens, reserving always
the right to sing God Save the Queen
and to retain allegiance to the English
government. (Applause)
We have heard of taxation without
representation, and this Is the argument
advanced against our course These men
did not deserve the protection of even
this argument They demanded the full
rights of citizenship without its obEga-
lions. (Cheers.)
MINING LAWS COMPARED.
The Transvaa1 mining laws, against
which they made objection were not
more strict than those of British Kon-
dixie or Rhodesia, where, In the latter
district, one-third of all the gold mined
goes to enrich the miiiionaires of the
I strictfons, which they have made much
of, do not exist Roman Catholics and
Jews are accorded the greatest freedom
and liberty, as are all other religious de-
nominations. In Boemfontein there
stands magnificent Catholic church the
+ months since, Your cause is just. !
I pray God daily that He may grant you
victory and success. This is not a senti-
ment which could be expected I'm a land
| of religious persecution and bigotry One
| of the members of the cabinet Of the
| Free State is Jew and the secretary of
war of the Free State is a devoted Cath
| Ollie.
The English have made much of the
| plea that they wished to 'civiliZe us. Ii
| which they wished to impose. the civil
| zation which decimated the blacks. Can
| you wonder that we refused 1t.
Assuming for the moment that the
charges against US were based on fact. is
it not strange that the men who brought
| them refused to meet us before a DrODpr