The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-03-30

,ovnoN. March 2s.-The most serl-
,.a,ctrnent of the Beers methods of
0us , ," which has yet appeared in
va S,,ard comes from Julian Ralph, thu
a.,con war correspondent, in a let
''I ,rom kimberley. published in this
" Daily Mall, 1t is, in part as
follows: ,,. 49,, s,o.,,h,,,
.,,,nqd BY the queens Dutch subjects
p"5 The Dn,ch republics for fully TWEEN
II years 1000, .,,a,,
80. been equipped for 1t. They began
Sa,cb,sIns arms and planning defences
,a,orA the jameson raid. Let no one
~, yop with the falsehood about that.
y.oIy Precedent Kruger begged PresI-
,.r, steya to declare war three years
Nor. President steyn consented. Next
"a rour mind Of the notion that you are
~ .,o.bIrr two farmer republic. There is
.o,o farmer in the two countries and
arfv one. the Free State, was n repub-
liz IN any way except misnamed. These
nsoole are herders of cattle, sheep and
roats like the Israelites Of old and the
1fridIa Turks and Balkan peoples Of to-
day
~Hs cthe Boers) so-called farms are
.. nature made them, merely reaches
q, yelat wbereon his cattle Craze. on
zach one he has put up some hut and its
s,rroun4!ngs are almost invariably
more repellant and dIsorderly than any
S,psps / ,yer saw, except the cabins of
need slaves in the United States, Their
t,mps AMI strongholds from which we
b,ys routel them are the filthiest PLACES
have known men of any sort to live
in and have seen red indian, Chinese
and Turkish camps, and the camps Of
many sorts Of black men. AS to their
bayery and honor. have seen and
lizard sufficient to fill a page of the
Daily Mail with accounts of their cow
arlly and dastardly behavior before
ama 10 Kimberley.
But here, find they have been
uaty Of different and original enorml-
lies. Here they killed our wounded and
laid their bodies in a row after one of
the torayg out Of town. Here they
armed many blacks to fight against us,
showing al! the world how scandalous-
" fraudulent were their explanations
Of horror at the idea of our employing
native Indian troops. There has hard
ly been )attle in which the Beers have
not abused either the white flag or the
Geneva cross. or both. AT splon Kop
our people saw them loading Maxims in
ambuances, in order to get them safely
away. This we saw them do at Modder
river also, and Kimberley is where the
Beers shclled the funeral cortege Of
George l.. Abram, an American. At
many PLACES they fired on our ambu-
hncts saw them do 1t at the Modder
river and saw them fire on our stretcher
baarers in that battle time and time
again When W. entered Jacobsdal, 1t
look:i like 4 city OF doctors.
"E'ery man in the streets wore the
Red CROSS bandage on his arm. These
were tn men who had Just been shoot
lag US from behind garden walls, There
was nothing novel or original about
thaIr seeking the cowardly shelter of
the Doctors badge We have become
quite accustomed to It. We once enter.
ed BOer lager after a victory and
found twenty-seven or these bogus doc
tors and seven or eight wounded for
ihsir patients, They have not been con-
tent with lootIng the houses of the
loyalists in the British colonies. but in
Natal, in scores Of instances, they have
smashed INTO Nndlings and torn into
ribbons whatever they did not want or
could not carry of. Worst yet, they
have fouled the walls of the homes of
dafenseless women with obscene writ
ings. They never knew the value of an
oath or promise and have not learned 1t
L.