Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-07-04
BOERS ISSUE AN !. ADDRESS.
ENJOYS In This Country Present r
Lengthy Statement of Cause Of
- - South African Republics.

New York, June ~. - The Boer en-
voys who have been in this country for
the past two months Tuesday issued
an address to the people of the United
States. After expressing regret at
their inability to accept many of the
Fl invitations extended to them they ex-
pressed their thanks to the American
public for 1.-THE deep sympathy they
nave shown for the cause of the two
struggling republics.''
Continuing the address says:
I'VE now feel convinced that the boast
1ul allegation of the colonial secretary
and other British statesmen that the
citlzens of this great country sympa-
tnlzed with the British empire in its
attempt to crush the liberty and indie
pendence of our two small states, is
absolutely devoid of truth"
me address then goes at great length
INTO the history of the relations between
Great Britain and the Beers which it
characterizes as lone of violated faith
ana broken pledges cloaked under the
display OF magnanimous and irreproach-
able principles" Coming down to the
as discovery of gold in Johannesburg in
1880, the address says:
All the forces of land greed and gold
munger, stimulated by the desire to
avenge what is known as the battle of
Ma0uba hill. were let loose
Inen follows history of the political
agitation which eliminated in the Jane
son raid. Mr.. Chamberlain, Sir Alfred
Miner and Mr.. Cecil Rhodes" continues
trinity which had brooded over and
SNAPPED the destiny of South Africa dur
ing the calamitous period. These gen.
| Yemen combined forces so as to achieve
oy subtlety and craft and misrepresent-
atlons what DIR. Jameson and the raiders
| la1ieo TO obtain by open violence"
| Inc address declares that the capital
lists control the press of South Africa,
ana that the editors of these subsidized
journals were appointed special corre-
spondents of the principal London dailies.
The broad charge is made that Mr..
! Chamberlains revival of the suzerainty
claim in 1897, his public utterances, Sir
matory dispatches and the efforts of the
South African league under the presi-
dency of Cecil Rhodes were all directed
towards the ultimate destruction of the
two Dutch republics.
The address then takes up the various
internal questions which contributed to-
| wards the outbreak Of war and discusses
them in great detail, making wholesale
dentals of the English representation
The address declares that at the Bloem-
fontein conference both President Steyn
and President Kruger endeavored to
avert the catastrophies by conceding even
more than the original demands on the
franchise question, but their efforts were
fru1tless. 1t is asserted that the war
was forced upon the Beers and the claim
Is advanced that they took up arms
only in self-defense. The address con-
tends that the policy of Great Britain
was desfgnedly shaped so as to compel
the Beers to send on the 9th of October
what is commonly known as their ulti-
matum to Great Britain.
Taking up the campaign to date the
| address says:
THE Beers may be in the end defeat
ed by overwhelming numbers and may
ultimately be forced to surrender, owing
to difficulty of securing ammunition and
provisions, but the conduct of the pres
ent war as well as the history of the
past 100 years justifies us in saying that
they will never be conquered.''
| The address concludes by saying that
the ENJOYS do not ask the direct or forci-
BILE Intervention of the United States,
but continuance of public sympathy and
support. The address is signed by Abra-
ham Fischer, c. H. Vessels and A. d.
| WOlmaranS.