Sunday morning globe., 1901-10-06
As Summarized by Reynolds Lon
don Newspaper.
QUARTER OF A MILLION
British Soldiers Whipped Out Of Their Boots BY
Fifty ThouSond Dutch Farmss-The DssOIa-
ton Tho Brutality Of England Has Effected
Among Once Prosperous. Aappy and God
Fearing PsOpo-WlI Die In tho Last Ditch.


Of England's failure and brutality In
the war with the gallant Dutch Of
South Africa
God save us men. A time like this
demands
Great hearts, strong minds, truth,
faith, and willing hands;
Men whom the lust OF Office does not
kill.
Men whom spOils Of Office can not
buy
Men who possess opinions and a will,
Men who have honor, men who will
not lie;
For while the rabble with their thumb
worn creeds,
Their large professions and their little
deeds,
Wrangle in selfish strife-Lo! Free
dom weeps,
Wrong rules the land and waiting JUS
tice sleeps"
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
September Is will be memorable in
! English history as the crOWning day
Of the degradation of our country. We
have been at war for two years, the
first war Of any importance which we
have fought for centuries unaided by
foreign ally. Our enemy has been a
small number OF undrilled peasants
From first to last we have put in the
| field against them some 400, 900 troops
including the regular army and volun.
teers. Colonial contingents, Indian
soldiers, and African Katirs. We have
suffered an unparalleled number Of de-
feats. The surrenders Of British troops
have been so frequent as to have be-
come a national disgrace. The Beers
have taken more prisoners, and lost
infinitely fewer men than ourselves.
Yet, all told, they have numbered about
$4,000, inclusive Of boys and old men,
and a few thousand foreigners.
To-day, as our weekly comparisons
with Kitchener's lists show, we are los
ing more in killed and wounded than
the Beers. Despairing Of defeating so
heroic an enemy, the laundering and
criminal government which rules in
this country by the property vote, have
! commissioned the Butcher Of Omdur-
man to exterminate the Dutch lighting
farmers from this date.
That is a game at which two can
play. So, IL citizens of the two repub-
lies, fighting for their liberty against
piratical gold-grabbers, are slaughtered
in this way, the numerous British SOL
diers who are being continually cap,
tured may expect to meet a similar
fate.
The government lie factory will in
vent new falsehOOds to describe these
reprisals, which are justified by every
rule Of war. They have almost ex-
hausted their fabrieations The pub
llc are sick of their lies, and evasions,
and colOTing Of the truth. They have
been deceived too often by these de-
spairing efforts to mislead opinion and
conceal the terrible truth, to treat the
daily budget Of deception with other
than cold contempt
And now, on this eventful day. let
us give a few facts so that peoples
eyes may be opened to the real situa-
ton. The war, with all its disastrous
| consequences, is one primarily OF
Chamberlain's making That person
knows more about the manufacture Of
screws than OF high policy. Yet the
| desperate Tory party, In order to keep
/ the Radicals out OF Office, were obliged
| to clutch the eX-Republican mayor Of
! Birmingham, and the Wings who re-
volted from Mr. Gladstone, because he
was too democratic for them Here,
then, we give a paragraph to show how
! Mr.. Chamberlain is regarded by the
| army;
"The steamer Orizaba, which arriv.
ed at Colombo a few weeks ago, and
| resumed her voyage to Australia, had
on board, among other passengers, six
Australian troopers on their way back
to Australia from South Africa. In
conversation with a Ceylon Standard
representative. one of these men gave
vent to his feelings on the way the war
has been and is being managed. We
are all heartily sick Of IT, / can assure
you he said, and none Of us are anx-
i0us to go back there The men out
there are all weary Of the war and
! thoroughly sick OF the officers who
will persist in fighting "by the book"
| They will not adapt themselves to cir
| cumstances, and as things are going
now, the war will comfortably last an
other 70 months at least. Another
thing worth mentioning though you
don't see it in the papers, is the fact
that the feeling in the ranks against
Mr.. Chamberlain Is the bitterest imag-
inable--a feeling in which a good pro-
| portion OF the colonials share"
The private letters which we publish
every week from soldiers at the front
confirm this story in detail. IL the
continuance Of the war we're left to the
| ballot OF our much-mlsused, starved.
bullled and unpaid army, an over.
whelming majority would vote against
| the insane policy OF the government
| In power by the property vote.
We have been all along firmly con-
vlnced that II our countrymen knew
the truth about this war they would re-
| pudiate 1t with horror They have
been misled by a despicable press
largely owned by capitalists who are
financially interested in South African
affairs We quoted some time ago a
passage from FrOude's History OF the
English in Ireland" In which he de-
scribed the inconcelvable scene OF des-
olation which England in her endeav-
or to extermlnate the Irieh-not being