The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-03
SYMPATHlZE WITH Beers.
SAVANNAH FRESHMEN ARE WITH
THEM IN THEIR STRUGGLE.

There Is a strong Pro-Boer Senti-
ment. the Germans and the Irish
Making Up the Number of Their
AdherentS-A Local Irishman Tells
why He Feels as He DOes-Ascribes
the Cause of the War TO England's
Intending Desire 80 Grab More Ter
ritOry-Has No sympathy With tie
GnIIRntry or Devotion of the irish
observation-disclosures Government Is
Commended.
Savannahs Irishmen sympathize with
the efforts of the Beers to defeat the
British advance and to drive the troops
cf the Queen from South Africa. Though
no public occasion has been taken to make
this fact evident, II is spoken of among
the Irishmen constantly and every British
defeat is hailed by them with enthusiasm.
1t is no half-hearted sympathy, either,
that the Irishmen pay the Beers. They
show every indication of desire to join
the South Africans in their fight, and it is
probable that if conditions were a trifle
more favorable that many of them woull
do So Though the Savannah Irishmen
have not yet been locally approached Tor
the purpose of soliciting from them the
| funds to equip hospital ship to aid and
succor the sick and wounded among the
Boer prisoners, there would be no diff
Guilty in raising respectable sum should
the attempt be made and it is certain
that considerable sum of money has al
| ready been sent on from Savannah win
out local solicitation.
There is a strong pro-Boer sentiment in
savannah. The German element is large
and influential here, and almost to a man
lis sympa thies are enlisted against the
British. 1t is but an eXemplification of
the fact, so far as the Germans are con
cerned, thai blood is thicker than water,
and that it will make its influence felt no
matter to what section of the world and
no matter how distant from its own hab-
itat it may be carried. The Irish want to
help the Beers because they hate the
British and see in the effort TO subdue the
South African republic but another at
tempt on the part of the British arms 10
Cypress a weaker ma ion.
A prominent Irishman. who is also
| prominent citizen, was speaking of this
matter day or two ago. lie had exulted
| in the BOer victories and crowed over the
British defeats unUl he had become tired
of the operation; he had passed through
he stage of predicting the entire defeat
of the British arms in South Africa, and
had concluded his eulogy of the extremely
liberal and democratic laws that prevailed
in the Transvaal and of the ease with
which his countrymen and fellow religion
lists might obtain from the Beers every
thing that they desired. Then he began to
tell why he felt as he did,
1T is but another attempt of England
to Cypress a nation weaker than herself"
said this Irishman. land II stamp out
democratic principles of government in a
country adjacent to one of her own colo
MES. That the Transvaal is rich has but
added 10 England's greed and the pol cy
of empire and the thirst for riches have
both contributed 10 urge her into the I'M
just war she is waging. I believe she
win be beaten and hope to God that be
moi mistaken.
THE Beers are in the Identical position
that the inhabitants of this country occu-
pied a hundred years ago" continued the
Irishman. They are fighting for their
country and their liberties and they ought
to have the moral support at least Of every
man VINO lives under a republican form of
government The English are endeavor-
ing to take away from The Beers their
fresides, their institutions and their laws,
and they ought 10 have the earnest con-
| demna ton of every honest man"
The attention of the Irishman who had
! be en- sp1a king was called to the fact that
Irish re gimeuts had taken brilliant part
in the alpaisn and hat they had fought
valan,ly and well for the cause of the
/ Queen. "A curse on Them, said he, every
Iri lehman that fights for England deserves
no sympathy or good word from his coun-
| trymen. They do but strive TO bind the
| shackles closer around the limbs of their
| countrymeu who still live in Ireland. They
/ are lenega0es and l have neither sympa-
! s. hnf Ort l.si L. o bai
/ g llanuy. Let them die as they deserve 20
| die "
| For half an hour or more the Irishman
| continued in this strain, condemning Eng
/ land for everything she had done and had
OF done and commencing the Beers for
i the very things in which they are most
! dellCieni. From the fact that they had
| PEI nit ed Irishmen 10 join their army and
! TO fia ant ard die in defense of country
! that m mt absolutely nothing to them, he
| argued that The Beers were a people of
/ broad hoerality and that 10 secure the
/ highest civic honors in their gift was ir-
| cspective of religion, the easiest thing in
| the world. Every citation of an instance
! cf he bigoted intolerance of the Beers
! towards anyone not OF their own religion
| was answered with quotation from the
/ Catholic World, the statements of which
/ tho, oaghly impartial and unbiased period
| ical were &C epted with absolute faith.
If it were desired to raise a Boer COM
pany in Savannah 1t is probable that there
| would be but little difficulty in doing so.
! The Germans and the Irish, for once unit
ed, would give il the founda ton, and
| there would moi be lacking adventures
who would be glad to enlist for the mere
| joy of fighting. The fight of the gallant
| burghers of the Transvaal has aroused
! sympathy everywhere, and even those
| who cannot agree with the principles of
| government that President Kruger repre-
seuts cannot help feeling pity for him and
! his people in their struggle against abso-
| lutely hopeless odds.
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