Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-12-18

England, as well as OF the rest OF the
world, will be advanced by promoting
it.
TIE ENGLISH INTEREST,".
"The real interest of the English
people is in extending the domain of
English commerce, not in extending
the domain of the English crown.
The growth of English trade with
this country since the establishment
of our independence has been the
greatest commercial expansion in
the world. Contrast the benefcent
results which have flown from that
separation with the results already
borne by the attempt to annex forci-
bly, the Transvaal and the still graver
results foreshadowed by it.
"Disaster to the English people
lies not in the defeat of this enter
prise, but in its success. If the South
African republics were subdued and
the last Boer disarmed, the men and
women now confined in captivity
must be returned to the soil. To
maintain authority over these peo-
pie, resentful, dissatisfied, accus-
toned to bearing arms, would re-
quire the maintenance of a huge
army and such an army could not be
maintained without using compul-
sorry military service in Great Bri-
tain. The establishment of compul-
sorry military service in England
would be the ruin of the British con-
stitution. The name of England
might remain to distinguish a politi-
cal division of the earth's surface,
but not to describe country of con-
stitutional freedom.
WHAT THE PRESIDENT CAN DO.
"Providence has so ordered events
that the President of the United
States can settle this bitter quar-
rel. 1t is an extraordinary oppor-
tunity offered to an extraordinary
man. 1t wouldn't be necessary to
draw the sword, to make any treat
of armed intervention, or to take an
unfriendly attitude. One word
spoken to the English Ambassador
or-in the hearing of the English
nation would restore peace, estab-
lished justice, secure liberty to these
burghers, promote enormously the
prosperity of the human race and
bring immeasureable glory to the
American nation. Will that word
be spoken? Never in history have
such momentous results hung on the
lips of human being. Will Theo-
dore Roosevelt improve this oppor.
tunity for himself, his country and
the whole human race? ?"
THE PLEDGE MADE.
The following resolutions were
adopted:
"Resolved, that we, as American
citizens believing that the wanton
destruction of non-combatants by
English military in South Africa,
without precedent in modern times,
save by English officers in the war of
the American revolution, is a source
of needless suffering to the people of
the South African republics and
without advantage to the military
operations of the British army; and
that the slaughter of the helpless and
innocent caused by English prison
pens is a causeless outrage upon the
humanity of the civilized world
which amply justifies concentrated
remonstrance by American and Euro
pean Statee and believing that the
rights and obligations of common
humanity are not determined by
geographical or political limitations !;
ana regarding the treaty or 1871 as
made to be observed by England as
well as by America, do most solemnly
demonstrate and protest against the
acts OF the English government.
THE PLEDGE MADE.
"Resolved, That we, and each of
US, do hereby pledge ourselves to
use Cur utmost power to make this,
our protest, known to our several
Representatives in the American
Congress and to cause copy of
these resolutions to be brought to
the attention of the President of the
United States, and respectfully peti.