New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-11-01
DISLIKES BRITISH Warfare.
LETTER FROM COLONEL LYNCH. FORMERLY
OF THE BoER ARMY

LETTER FROM COLONEL LYNCH. FORMERLY
OF THE BoER ARMY.
To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: The kilograms from London and South AZ
RIGA in this mornings journals have brought to a
head my growing feelings of establishment and
evaporation since have landed IN New-Yorl-
evaporation at the manner In which England. by
the arts of suppresio veri and suggestIo falsi,
hoodwinks the American public; establishment that
q nation whose very history is wrapped up in the
principle OF human liberty remains apparently in
different to the stories which the British censor
permits to leak out from South Africa, and which
furnish direct evidence of system OF warfare
not less cruel and barbarous than that of weyler
which reused the American people to overwhelm-
ing indignation. and caused them to sweep from
these oceans the corrupt and tyrannical power
which made such things possible.
The Transvaal is annexed, without protest from
America, at period when, according to the esti-
mate OF the lingo Daily Mail" OF London the
Beers have 1900 men in the field with as many
guns they had at the beginning OF the war, and
when a brilliant guerilla campaign is being carried
on In districts separated by hundreds of miles
under the direction Of the most capable OF the Boer
leaders made famous during the war. Peace Is
announced to the world when. according to the
Daily Mall" noted for the bitterness OF it's
hostility to the Beers complaints made IN
Cape Town regarding the premature disbandng
and dispensing with the services Of the various
volunteer forces" and when the journal itself COM
ments the astonishing outburst of Boer ac-
tivity," and when General Brabant Is publishing
appeals to men to come forward IN the Cape
swell the ranks Of the British irregular forces.
We informed that at Bothaville one church
remains as the only edihcs to mark where the
town stood; but Bothaville Is no exception We
informed by the English press that wherever
the Beers IN course of their legitimate operations
have destroyed portions of the railway lines, the
English troops have burned down all the adjacent
villages and farms We read from the same
sources that Boer women have been deported from
Jagersfontein and imprisoned few miles out Of the
city, and that all Beers fourteen years OF age
living beyond limit OF ten miles from Rloemfon-
tein are being surrounded and brought into the
city.
Remember that on the African veldt the burning
OF Boer farm merely that extent OF
material loss to the owner-it absolute ruin
and prospective starvation to the whole family; 1t
means the alternative to the Boer betraying his
country or facing death by the bullet for himself,
disgrace for his folk. hunger leading to
death for his children. And remember, also, that
1t is from the English press. which has been feed
ing the public for the last two falsehoods
and calurnnies against the Beers that we are per-
mitted gain even this glimpse of the horrors Of
| South Africa. What must the reality be?
Salisbury has consented to the release OF The
soeTs Th is degby reSrettabe a oeordng
| a letter which have received from Ceylon, sew
The question OF American intervention has again
and again been mooted It Is quite feasible for tbs
this the basis Of the resolutions Of The h
Hague Conference and humanity calls for
, thing more than a mere perfunctory fulhlnent 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
in various quarters the great and growing
trade which existed between America and the re-
pablics of South Africa. and while the Stars and
| Stripes floats many parts of the world
remote from America. It Is not consistent with the
dignity of this country to allow: her industries
! be ousted from South Africa the consequence OF
! Of British conquest
! I believe that this question Will not be allowed to
! die out in America. One at least OF the two great
| political parties here to be committed to In
| terventon, and have received certain assurances
from prominent members Of both parties that
whatever be the issue Of the election, the matter
! will be revived IN Congress
I But II needs something than that 1t needs
| that the American people should rise up and ma Ike
their voices heard In indignant protest, that they
should arm their representatives with the necessary
authority to speak in their in demanding the
cessation Of these Weyler-lii!e murders and name
less atrocities In South Africa. and that IN their
| wrath they shall make the moral power Of America
! felt throughout the world in declaring in tones
which brook denial that this cursed thing shall
| no longer offend the senses OF man.
ARTHUR LYNCH,
Lately Colonel OF the Second Irish Brigade Of the
! Boer Army.
! New-York Oct. 81, 1900.