The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-11-06
HOODWINKING
ALL AMERICA.
Boer Colonel Tells His Side Of
the South African Story.
FOR AMERICAN INTERVENTION
he Does Not Believe the Question Will Bs
Allowed To Dis-0reat Brit
aims Awful Scheme Of
Revenge.

New York, Nov. 2.-JThe New York Trl-
bune today prints a letter from Arthur
Lynch. late colonel in the Second Irish
brigade Of the Boer army, dated New
York, October 81, which in part is as
follows:
ITO the Editor of the Tribune.
Sir: The kilograms from london and
South Africa in this mornings journals
have brought to n head my growing
feelings Of astonishment and exaspera-
tion since have landed in New York
exasperation at the manner in which
England, by the arts of suppresio veri
and suggesto falso, hoodwinks the
American public; establishment that q
nation whose very history 10 wrapped
up in the principle Of human liberty,
remains apparently Indifferent to the
stories which the British censor permits
to leak out from South Africa, and
which furnish direct evidence Of a sys-
tenn Of warfare not less cruel and bar
barous than that Of Weyler, who urged
the American people to overwhelming
Indignation and caused them to sweep
from these oceans the corrupt and
tyrannical power which made such
things possible.
1--WE are informed that at Bothaville
one church remains as
THE ONLY EDIFICE
to mark where the town stood; but
Bothaville is no exception. We are In
formed by the English press that where
ever the Beers. in the course Of their
legitimate operations, have destroyed
80 ka he
lish troops have burned down all OF 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 over fourteen
years Of age living beyond limit of
ten miles from Bloemfontein are being
surrounded and brought into the city.
Remember that on the African veldt
the burning Of q Boer farm means not
merely that extent of material loss to
the owner-it means absolute ruin and
prospective starvation to the whole
family; 1t means that alternative to the
Boer Of betraying his country or facing
death by the bullet for himself. disgrace
for his women folk, hunger leading to
death for his children. And remember,
also. that 1t is from the English press,
which has been feeding the public for
the last two years on falsehoods and
cafumnies against the Beers, that we are
permitted to gain even this glimpse OF
the horrors of South Africa. What
must the reality be?
II believe that the question of Ameri-
can intervention will not be
ALLOWED TO DIE
out in America, and have received GER
tain assurances from prominent men,
bers of both parties that, whatever be
the issue of the election, the matter will
be revived in congress. But 1t needs
something more than that. It needs
that the American people should ris,
up and make their voices heard in in
dignant protest, that they should arm
their representatives with the necessary
authority to speak in their name in de.
manding the cessation of these Weyler-
like murders and nameless atrocities in
South Africa, and that in their wrath
they shall make the moral power OF
America felt throughout the world In de.
clarlng In tones which brook no denial
that this cursed thing shall no longer
offend the senses Of man.
ARTHUR LYNCH.
Lately Colonel in the Second Irish
Brigade of the Boer army.
New York, October 81, 1900"