The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-09-22

gium have given. since the outbreak
Of the war. immense sums of money,
which were expended in buying rifles.
rapid-fire guns. ammunition and clothes
for the Beers in the field.
The Irish ladies on the continent
have not been equaled by the ladies
of France or Germany in providing
funds for the purchase of food, cloth
ing and medicine for the Boer wonen
ana prisoners The irish secret SOcie
have been exceedingly active
throughout the world, and have per-
formed an astonishing amount of work
in working up sentiment in various
countries. which is bound to bear fruit
.England's extremity viii be Ireland's
opportunity
The superb literary work by men
of Irish blood or birth in many coun-
tries has been a potent factor in max
ing the BOer cause we'll understood in
All lands. immortal honors are due to
the brave Irishmen who laid down their
lives lighting o. the African veldts
against their heI ditary foes Not a
fight has been held in which srishmen
did not stand with the Beers in the
duel for liberty and against imperial
ism We feel especially proud of those
grand Irish-Americans who went from
this and other states to fight with a
halter around their necks and without
a cent of pay for the BOer cause. These
men scorned the secret order of the
brutal British. NO quarter to an Irish
man found with the Beers. That or
der made them only more anxious to-
put every one Of their bullets through
the body Of a British minion.
How can we say enough of the noble
attitude of the eloquent and scholarly
Father kavanagh. o. 5. F.. Of Ireland.
who dared to travel in every part of
Ireland den0uncing the war against the
Beers and telling the young Irishmen
that no true son of the sacred soil hal
lou 49, In..A- III
himself an Irishman after enlisting in
the army or navy of Great Britain?
In parliament what good work has been
done by the Irish members who have
been instant in season and out of sea-
son in exposing the fiendiSh acts and
measures of the iTnperialists. Verilys
the Irish members of parliament have
carried the war into the enemy'S coun-
try by going about telling the victims
of jingOism in England and Scotland
the plain truth. that the Boer war was
egged on by Chamberlain. Salisbury,
the Earl of Fife-brOther-in-laW of the
king-Rhodes and other rogues for the
one purpose of seizinz the gold mines
and operating them with slave labor
tht better to break down the cause of
freedom in all lan0s.
chamberlain and Salisbury built
tremendous castle in the ARA dream
of British despOtism stretching around
the globe. "a navy strong enough to
overpower the combined navies of
France and Russia Anglo-Ameri-
can alliance and a secure hold upon
India. How entrancingly beautiful that
dream was TO the British tories when
the lion threw himself upon the poor
little lamb in South Africa. Today the
whole fabric of that dream has tum-
bled to wrack, a. d Britain stands dis
illusioned and facing horrible realities.
While Britain barely holds the ground
in South Africa that is covered by her
bayonets Russia has made a permanent
conquest of the richest province in.
the so-called British sphere of infiu-
ence' in China, and has added 81 900
square miles OF Indian territory to her
already vast possessions in that coun-
try, and France has taken the OppOr-
tunity Of Britain's military impotency
to & ize tracts of land in India and
Africa equal in area to seven times the
area of Great Britain, Ireland and Bel
giunl, all of which land was claimed
thu 13oer war
In the game of war and politics the
British imperialists have been defeated
at every turn, and have lost markets
in which they formerly had monoy~slies.
The British opium ring has been smote
hip ind thigh by the war in China,
their dyestuffs and hashish monopolies
in India have been lost their incomes
from the South African gold fields have
been wiped out for nearly three years,
and the mountain of debt is daily rising
to fall ct last and crush jingoism to
earth forever. II all the work mainly
secret, which has been done to humble
Britain. Irishmen have played most i'm
pOrtant parts. No one has been quicker
to recognize this fact than the grand
old Boer. Dom Paul Kruger.