Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-01-26

WAS forced IN England hy The Beers.
and that wherever the English N1g ia
set up or the English war cry raised by
au EnglIshman Do Us the right uf the
English government t0 rally 90 the res.
cue. it ls nor wonderful that Churchill
fails ahsgIu'olyt0 understand theslurce
OF that iUsniratlon which led the Beers
o. fight 'o tine death. He SAYS
'LuuEiug gt these very ordinary peo-
pie who might have been knot Of
, l0afars around q public house, !. was
difficult 60 understand what qualities
made them such "a terrible f1e'
But Davis as am American. under
sJuuds the source OF the Beers Inspira-
| ton. He knows that 10 arises from tn.
same feelings which moved the Amer
! lean colonies against the same inyad-
grs over 100 years ago. He speaks Of
| $50 900 picked men from all the world.
| going liable Bay 90 fight 80 600 farm
ers clerks. attorneys. shopkoapors and
| schooiboys for the gold that lies In the
/ Rand
ooh. we always have some little war
| on somewhere. Englshmen say
This particular war; says Davis, "ls
| a good subject for EngIishmen 20 drop.
to lay on the table. that 90 is not one TO
| discuss t0 crowded galleries, mat il is
! only showing 90 the amused powers Of
| Europe weakness after weakness"
Throughout Churchlrs book one Is
/ confronted with the idea that every
/ thing noble on the march. In the
! biyouac. on I'm the battle is ON the side
| Of the English The author rails az the
| Beers contempt of and brutality 20
/ kafirs and I'm the same breath speaks
| OF the days bag OF Beers The Amer
| lean correspondent takes a different
| view ~ IT, He says
In this campaign everything seems TO
/ have been done 90 degrade war; tomake
/ IL even more brutal than &c u.s. We
/ have the incident OF the British officer
| who protested loudly against general
/ Cr0nje receiving cigar when he asked
| for one; OF another who distributed
/ Mrs Cronje's wsp Of false hair as a
/ souvenir; OF Captain q. Of the Scots
/ Grays who photographed the Beers
| while the Tommes bayoneted them.
/ These incidents make warfare worse
/ than brutal II becomes vulgar
! As Davis was ION the spot quite as
/ much as Churchill, one Is compelled 20
! give his words the weight they deserve.
! Churchill complains bitterly of the In
! suits 10 the British prisoners at Pre-
tora on the part ~ the Boers-how
| they were ieered and rallied at by their
| guards and treated with contumely by
/ the citizens Churchill was a prisoner
| az the time and his word may not be
| lightly doubted. Yet later on In a letter
| 10 De Souza, the Boer secretary OF war
! the English correspondent wrote: Your
| treatment Is correct and humane" This
| Is something OF a paradox
Davis the American, says:
"The British officers. in their con-
| tempt for their Captors behaved I'm a
most unspOrtmanlike, ungeutlemanly
and for their own good a most foolish
/ manner. They drew offensive caricat-
! ures. destroyed the chIldren's copybooks
and textbooks. They spoke 70 and
shouted at the ladies and young girls
who passed the school house where
they were confined | had thought the
English officer would remain an officer
under any circumstances. When one
has refused 90 fight further with a rifle,
u Is not becoming 10 continue the fight
with the tongue, nor 20 insult the man
from whom you have begged for mercy.
This war has cost England the right %
speak again IN the name OF Christian
ity for the chief loot OF her soldiers Is
the Bibles they found upon the dead
nNNlfN OF lIN lIIfU NIA"N INA hlllfAf
Both Churchill and Davis write fierce
Is. passionately at times. one as
interviewing American the other as
an lmperiallst Of the most advanced
type. Both are honest and fearless in
their convictions and arrive at widely
separate conclusions by arguments
which form the fundamental principles
Of their different countries. with one
the war Is a glorious game of legitimate
expansion. With theotherit lsa holland
horror. Speaking Of his Imprisonment
Churchill says
THE room was stuffy. and there are
more enlIveniug spectacles than seventy
British officers caught Boy Dutch farm
ers and ppnued together 10 confinement
I used % walk uu and down the court
yard. looking renectiyely az the dirty
unkempt z8rps who stood ON guard
racking my brains TO find some way boy
force or fraud. by steel or gold OF Tee
gaining my freedom
Davis on causes Of the war;
"TheyUhe Boors) are the last OF the
Crusaders IL has been q holy war this
war 81 the Burgher Crusader, and his
motives are as fine as any that ever
called a minute man from his farm, or
sent d knight OF the cross 90 die in
Palestine when be- falls De win not
IAN alone, with him win end great
princinle-the principle FOR which our
forefathers faught-the right Of self
coverument--the principle of inlepen-
deuca. AZ Suion F0u the attack on the
hin was made bv forty men-so few, in
deed So they claim mat one Of the
English colonies surrendered and then
ON seeing when the Beers LEFT cover to
what a small force be- was opposed
threw the white flag and cried NO
Wen not surrender and fired on the
Beers who were coming up 90 receive
his rifles one can imagine what am
cutlery such an incident az this would
have called forth from the English
papers had n been the Boer who had
raised the white flag and then thought
better Of A."
Here IS q Red Cross incident taken
from ChurchNrs books
"When dav broke the Beers. who
were much nearer fo the wounded than
were our own troops came out OF their
trenches with Red Cross flag and the
firing thereupon ceusod locally our
peoplo ought then On have hae0 ready in
come forward with another Red Cross
flag. Unfortunately however there Waa
some delay on our part tn. Beers
therefore picked mp their own wounded
gave some of our men a little water ana
took away their rifles They then pro-
ceaded 20 strip and dospoil the dead and
wounded. taking or their boots and
turning out their pockets This SD In
furiated the watching soldiers that they
Cred on the Beers Red Cross fac not
withdrawing. The Beers then behaved
cruelty. and several wounded men were
deliberately shot
Churchill says relative 20 the Boer
character:
Here IN Pretoria all was petty and
contemplate Shiny. sleek officials Of