Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-05-07
I,
DAVIS
Condemned British,
But Defended the Ameri-
can War.
Big Meeting at New York
Last Night.
Wanted 100000 Americans to
Take up Arms
To go to the Relief Of the
:. Beers.

:. Beers.
New York, May Webster Davis,
former Assistant Secretary of the In
terror, spoke at a meeting at the
Academy of Music last night, held un-
der the auspices of the New York com.
mittee to aid the South African repub-
lies. He said:
''Tlie great masses of our people do
sympathize with the Roers. They
stand for liberty, for civilization, for
self-government, ana for peace. Ev-
cry effort should be put forth by them
to bring this unholy war in South Afri-
ca to close. AS Americans we are
opposed to having our republic held up
as menace to foreign countries whose
synpathies go out to the struggling
Beers. All foreign countries, since our
war with Spain, regard America as one
df the greatest powers of the world.
Abroad today the representatives and
sympathizers of the British govern
ment are striving to create the impress
sion that secret understanding or
alliance exists between OUT govern
ment and that Of England. We cannot,
as American freemen whose ancestors
gave their lives for freedom and indie
pendence, withhold our sympathies
from the farmers Of the Transvaal and
the new Orange Free State as they
chnstIse those who, in mockery of
Brimins great principles and in dis
grace of her fame, seek to exterminate
n civilized people and to
DESTROY THEIR LIBERTY.
| We should be ready to hear the cry
for help from the struggling people Of
the two little South African republics.
For Chamberlain has attempted to
dominate and dictate in their internal
affairs Just as George III interfered
In the affairs of the colonies. Indeed,
England has trodden truth under foot
and trampled honor anc good faith in
the dust. And were she to conquer
the Beers there is no doubt In the
world that they would be compelled to
suffer as the people Of Ireland have
suffered for centuries. British cruelty
is proverbial. And yet the British ma
tion poses before the world as the
great civilizer, whose mission 10 to sub
due savage tribes and disseminate the
germs of civilization among them. Ac
cording to their theory, the Beers are
savages and must be civilized even II
they have to shoot civilization int
them with lyddite guns and dumdum
bullets. During the battle Of the
Tugela River 1000 lyddite shells fel
among the Beers, and though at The
Hague convention dumdum bullets
were condemned by the representa-
tiyes of the civilized world as tit only
for sayages, yet have now in m!
possession three unexploded dumdun
cartridges that picked up on the tol
of Spion Kop, in the trenches that hat
been occupied by the British troops
and have also two unexploded dunn
dun bullets that were given me. by ,
surgeon as he extracted them from
the bodies of two dead Beers. To m,
mind this is sufficient proof that dunn
dun bullets We're, to some extent a
least, used by the aforesaid alleged civ
illzed troops.
4 N IN THAT ENGAGEMENT.
"Numerous have been the instances
I Of British cruelty ON the battlefield
Of South Africa, such as the abuse o
the white flag and the firing upon tn,
Red Gross. And the conduct OF til,
British troops, especially the Lancers
has no parallel in modern warfare.
THE Beers love Of liberty is a
strong as that of our own Revolution
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