The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1900-01-26
SYMPATHY FOR Beers
Remarkable Meeting at the Ma
tional Capital.
The President Urged to Mediate In the
South African War-Precedents for
Such Acknowledging Reso.
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WASHINGTON. Jan. 21.-The Grand
Washington, was packed to the doors
tonight with an enthusiastic audience:
which vigorously expressed its SYM
pathy with the Beers in their fight with
Great Britain. The demonstration was
planned as a means Of evidencing pub
lie sentiment. and in numbers and en-
thusiasm was fully up to expectations.
The keynote Of the speeches was that
the Beers WEI, fighting for the indie
penGence as u forefathers had done
in 1776. The gathering assembled I'M
der the auspices of the United Irish So
~cletles, and a number of leading Ger
mans of the city joined in the move
ment.
Among those who occupied seats on
the stage We're Senators Mason of Hi
nois, Allen of Nebraska and Tillman of
South Caroliu, Representatives Clark,
De Almond and Cochran of Missouri.
Bailey of Texas, Carmack and Cox of
Tennessee, Rhea, Jones and Lamb of
Virginia, Shafroth of Colorado, Dovener
of West Virginia. Meyer of Louisiana,
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and Mr.. Van Sicklen, representative of
the Orange Free State at New York,
and representatives of the United Irish
Societies and others. A large delega-
ton Of observation-disclosures and German
Americans from Baltimore wa in the
audience.
Barbarous War Tactics.
The following resolutions were
adopted:
Whereas, The American people still
cherish the lessons and memories of 1116.
and therefore fully understand and realize
the rapacious war which Great Britain is
waging against a small but patriotic peo-
pie whose misfortune is the possession of
natural wealth coveted by British greed:
Whereas, In the prosecution of this rob-
Der warfare, Great Britain has been baked
as yet of her ~tyrannous designs, and has
therefore resOrted to unlawful and bar
barous war tactics, as is her wont, to-wit:
/. The arming and mobilizing of savages.
2. The distribution of dum-dum bullets to
her soldiers, coupled with the boast that the
British government possesses one hundred
million such missiles.
3. The illegal seizure of peaceful mer-
chandise, en- route from the neutral ports
of the United States to the friendly Portu-
guese markets.
Whereas, The president of the United
States has not taken proper notice of these
outrages, making it necessary for the peo-
pie at large to express their will through
public assemblages and serious warnings;
therefore,, the citizens of the American
capital, in mass meeting assembled,
British FERTILITY and Dishonor.
Resolved, That the people of the Orange
Free State and the South African republic
are, and of right ought to be free and in
dependent, and their civilization is rec
ognized to be equal in morality to that of
any other people, the false witness of the
British press to the contrary notwithstand-
ing. Therefore the precipitation upon them
of savage foes in alliance with trained
soldiers threatens the repetition of the hor-
rors of Wyoming, Fort Dearbon and ether
places, bitterly remembered by the Amer
lean people as ruthless instances of British
perfidity and dishonor. The attention of
the president of the United States is re-
spectfuly directed to this feature, which
is a notorious matter of common repute
throughout the world.
AsSSc1 ftl. AhoA LII IlttllhS IL concert
with the American people throughout the
land sends its sympathy and good will and
heartfelt encouragement to the Beers and
reminds them that as we triumphed against
the same foe, SO may they.
Resolved. That we beseech and strenuouslv
urge the president Of the United States to
exercise the prerogative vested in him by
the peace convention lately arranged by
the powers OF the civilized world. We beg
him to offer his good offices as a mediator
between the Beers and the British for the
deliverance of those unfortunate English
men and their families, now being punished
for the crime of a brigand cabal of gold
grabbers and land-hungry conspirators,
not one of whom is at the forefront of the
battle.
Resolved, That we solemnly protest
against the shipment of munitions of war
from this country for the use of Great
Britain.