The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1900-05-04
LORD
Roberts Continues Hts Advance
on BOer Positions.

cavalry brigade has reached
Isabelfontein, twenty-eight miles north Of
Thaba N'Chu. General Ian Hamilton is
bivuoacking at Jacobsruhl. fifteen miles
north of Thaba N'Chu General fuckers
division of General French and Rumble
are in ana near Thaba N'Chu. Thus
Lord Roberts has $4,000 men operating
clear of the railroad along a front of
forty-eight miles.
He is advancing slowly with some sue
cesses, but nothing decisive. Yet, at ali
points of concentration, the Beers appear
in force sufficient to compel the British
to proceed with caution. Their wide front
in a rugged country makes turning move
ments off-hand difficult.
The Beers, Mr.. Winston Churchill says,
have enormous herds of cattle and hocks
of sheep gathered In the southeast.
These they are driving northward.
Observers at headquarters in Bloemfon-
tein seem to think that the Beers are pre-
pairing to evacuate Brandfort and Lady
brand. The Beers still holding Thaba
n Chu district are estimated at 400.
They have among their guns a 40-pounder.
One correspondent wiring from Bloemfon-
tein Wednesday, at 1855 p. m, said the
British hoped to cut off the whole COM
mando.
The correspondents at Kimberley have
been forbidden to communicate for sew
eral days, the deduction being that a for
ward movement is under way there. The
Beers in Natal are restless. Two hun
dred crossed Sundays river Wednesday
and tried to engage the British outposts.
ADVICE TO ROBERTS.
LONDON, MAY 4.-The Times, refer
ring to the correspondence says:
Lord Lansdowne's dispatch is 2 singu-
lar invitation to Lord Roberts to cook
his opinions for the benefit of the unfor-
tunate British public. Comment upon this
correspondence is almost superhuous.
There is nothing so creditable to Sir Red
vers Butler as his refusal to re-write a
dispatch for publication.
A BISHOPS PLEA.
CHICAGO, MAY 3.-Bishop J. C. Hart
zell pleaded the cause of the Briton 'n
the Transvaal tonight before an audience
that almost filled the Auditorium. lie
spoke from impressions gained by per-
sonal observations of conditions in South
Africa, from the personal acquaintance
with President Kruger and his advisers
and from close study of laws and the
administration of avs by the govern
ment. The audience was pro-British in
it's sympathies. Bishop Hartzell said:
I'm the treatment of the black races
there has been clear ~antagOnism between
the Briton and the Boer from the very
beginning. The Boer believes that the
natives are the children or Ham and Tie
intended by providence for slavery.
1.-The constitution provides that there
shall be no equality between white ana
colored persons in church or state; no
black man can walk on the idewallt IN
town or city. This includes not only ma
tive teachers and preachers trained by
foreign missionary societies., but 'lso
black or mulatto people who come from
Cape Colony or elsewhere. No black m]n
can own land in the Transvaal. No blac{
man can become a trader of any kind,
no matter what his intelligence or how
good his character. Up to two years re-
there could be no legal marriage 0, any
black person. A marriage law was pass
ed requiring a fee of SIS, with other hiG-
ORANGES so many that the missionaries
and philantrophists are seeking to nav
It repealed. No black man has a stand
ing in court in the Transvaal; he cannot
sue the government or a white man. The
Transvaal does nothing toward the educT
ton of the black people, although by "
. cense and soforth, they pay three per cen
of the public school money. What is don.
among them is done by English and Eu'
ropean and missionary associations.
"And to all this the brutality especial
Iy of Transvaal officials, toward native :
One of the many instances is the treat
ment which General Crcnje recently gave
TO a native chieftainess and her people
J on a letter written by one of his o"r
men, which he read to her, without 81
ing her an opportunity of reply or rebl,t
tai, he fned her nearly 800, and, gather
ing together thirteen of her advisers
hogged them, giving to each twenty-si9
lashes, and when each one refused to saI
J thank you, another lash was added.
Every black man in America and ev
cry well-wisher of the black man in Am
\ eica and elsewhere ought TO pray for tn
triumph of British arms in South Afri
= ca. The immediate occasion If the va
was the treatment OF the Outlanders il
the Transvaal."
Taking up the grievance of the rn'
landers, Bishop Hartzell bitterly de-
4 nounced the Beers for what he termed tn
I injustice and tyranny imposed by the %,
1 500 voting burghers upon the 10000 Out
I landers was outrageous.
Speaking of the future, the bishol
said:
I Commencing with the Twentieth cen
I fury, a committee Of five will rule tn
world-America, England, Germany, Rus
) STA and France"
The bishop hoped TO see unity or actol