Washington sentinel., 1901-03-09
THE BOER WAR.

| power Ol lhaL age 20 eSIaollSh tnS
Inquisition, were maintaining, not
alone their own cause, but that oI
England and all Europe, SO are
the Beers Of South Africa now
fighting the battle Of the whole
world to prevent the perpetnation
Of crimes less ianatical but more
sordid, says Judge Samuel w.
Pennepacker, in the Sunday San.
Whether or not we lack the re-
inement and sensibilities neces
sary to enable us to sympathize
with iortitude and courage which
have halted if not broken the
power of the empire, we at least
have sufficient wit to appreciate
our own interests.
We are told that destiny has
selected the Anplo- Saxon to be the
future ruler OF all men, and the OPP
portunity is presented to US to enter
into the alliance. If England fails
TO drive the Dutch from their
homes in South Africa she will ere
long need us for protection. If
she succeeds in adding that vast
continent TO her possessions she
will need US for completeness.
England holds the British Islands,
each entrance to the Mediterran-
can, Egypt, India, Australia, New
Zealand, Canada. the Bermudas
and jana ca, and is even now plan
ming to prevent US from utilizing
the waterways of our own conti-
nent. let no America cherish
the vain thought that should she
become strong enough our rights
will have greater efficacy than
those o I the Beers.
1t was said in Bkackzvood'S Mag
aSINe in December. 1902: ere
cent events, by weakening the
American States and discrediting
the American principles Of Gov.
eminent, have turned the tables
very much in our favor" The
Alabama never once, in the course
Of a career which destroyed our
commerce, saw the inside OF Con-
federate port, and she was EnrE'sh
from ste m to stern, outfit and 2 :.
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before, rather than aiterwar, I'D
the time to provide Tor the future
is in the present.
Whether by chance, intelli-
gence, or the favor OF Divine Prov
ldence, we have developed a sys-
tenn OF government which, leaving
local affairs to be settled within
the States and national affairs to
be determined in a broad way
through representation, has proven
capable OF providing for the well
fare Of the people, and at the same
time strong enough to withstand
the most dangerous assaults, in
ernal and external. There seems
to be no reason Nhy this system,
extending across the oceans, may
not become cosmopolitan, as well
as national and why we may not
hope to see in the far future a
worldwide " confederation OF re-
publics. II the Beers are able to
maintain possession oil their coun-
try against the forces OF the en-
piTe, we and our ideas may in time
be expected to lead the Anglo
Saxon peoples. II the Bri ish sue
ceed, any alliance will be thing
Of kings and courts and hunkeys.
Willing as the Englishman is to
assume control and call it the
WIN c mans burden, he is unified
tor the task. The killing Of men
and the destruction oil their be-
loDgings is not government, but is
the strongest evidence ot incapac-
ity to govern. His brutality is
ingrained, and he and that worth
less creature, the bulldog, 60
growing through the ages side by
side. This trait, which puts him
out Of sympathy with humanity, is
shown alike in his individual and
national conduct. in his serious
work and in what he calls sport, in
his disposition 20 traInple upon
women and upon every other weak
thing inca pable Of making success
full res stance. He drove the
French women from the Canadian
meadowsoi Grand Pre- with as little
ruth as he sent the savage TO prey
upon the women of Pennsylvania
on the banks of the Susquehanna,
and as he drives the Boer women
today out into the wastes Of the
Transvaal. After the French maid
had defeated him on the field of
battle and saved the land OF her
fathers, he burned her to dealh in
the market place OF Rouen. There
was one living in 1880 who remem-
bered to have seen the human
heads that adorned the gates OF
Temple Bar, and the barbarous