Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-05-28
WELCOME TO B0ERS
ENJOYS OF BUTCHERS HEARTH
LY RECEIVED AT NEW YORK.
MAYOR VAN WICK SPEAKS
Delegates Make Reply Expressing
Their Gratitude and Their Belief
That the Struggle or Their Coun-
trymen Will Ultimately Be Sue
ful-Demonstration by Crowds.

New York, May 18.-The principal
event in connection with the visit ITO
this city of the boer delegates. Wes-
sells, Wolmarans and Fischer. Oc-
Cured yesterday when they were re-
ceived at the city hall by Mayor Van
Wyck and, in accordance with the
resolution passed by the municipal
assembly, they were officially well
coined to the city. Accompanied by
the reception committee and delega-
ton from the South African club. the
delegates of the municipal assembly
and mayor were awaiting them. In
anticipation of their arrival the GUS
tomary Large crowd around the city
hall was greatly increased and crowds
pressed around the carriages and
cheered the delegates, who raised
their hats in acknowledgment. Kill
iaen Van Rensselaer,, chairman of the
reception committee, introduced each
delegate to the mayor who said: Il
am delighted to welcome you to the
city of New York and to assure you
that in America you receive cordial
welcome from the liberty loving peo-
pie Of this country Never since |
have been in the mayors Office has a
more pleasant duty been discharged
by me than this one to welcome you
on behalf of a free people. I want
to assure you that wherever you go
you will find welcome from
the people and we hope that
when your mission is ended
and you are returning to your own
country you will again call on us so we
may have the pleasure Of giving you
still another welcome"
Delegate Fischer said: II ais is to
us an occasion of pleasure and pride.
We are so conceited as to take to our
selves the honor shown us. but we wish
to show you that we do not represent
an unworthy people. We believe no
people can understand what it is to
struggle for freedom except peop
which has gained it's freedom by such
struggle We have been told to avoid
the pitfalls of party cliques; we can
say we are as ignorant of party cliques
as when we arrived. The reception
that has been given us comes from all
classes of people. We cannot think
our mission to seek peace for our coun-
try-peace with honor-will be unsuc-
cessful. We hope we shall obtain the
objects of our mission and we hope and
are encouraged in our hope by the
splendid reception we are given every
where. This reception by you is an
honor we will remember. A small
liberty-loVing people will think better
of their big brother. We think we
will come out well in the struggle
We have been told that 80 per cent.
of the people of America sympathize
with us. We want to convert the
other ten per cent. by simply telling
the truth. We hope a free people
will not have appealed to you, a free
people, in vain.
Alderman Kennedy read the address
of welcome prepared on behalf of the
municipal assembly. Delegate Yves
sells responded briefly. Delegate Wei
marans, who spoke in Dutch gave a
history of the Transvaal trouble
from the beginning. He said: eve
never sought war. It was thrust up
on US. We were robbed of our indie
pendence in 1877. but regained it in
1881. BY the cooperation of a small
but well disposed party in England,
of which Gladstone was the head, we
got the convention of 1884, which gave
us our independence without suez
rainty. The question was not dis
puted until after the Jameson raid.
We tried to have all our disputes ar
bitrated. This has been re-
fused by Chamberlain, and
Sir Alfred Miner. We are gratified
at the way America has subscribed for
the widows and orphans of the beers.
We want to prevent the making of
more widows and orphans by dumdum
bullets or otherwise"
The members of the municipal as
sembly were each in turn introduced
to the delegates. Then a group of
women were introduced. The crowd
sent up a cheer. and Fischer, standing
on the steps by the city hall, deliv-
cred brief address in which he said
the people of the Transvaal and Or
ange Free State were struggling for
liberty and wanted the sympathy of
the people of America.