New Iberia enterprise. (New Iberia, La.) 1885-1902, 1901-06-15

ed-to endeavor to procure a loal
from the thrifty Dutch bnrghers
The Dutch received him courteous
ly, but told him that as he was act
ing only in the capacity of an in,
dividual it would be impossible fol
him to negotiate loan but to get
the continental congress to appoint
him minister plenipotentiary to
Holland, when he would receive
recognition from the states general
and secure the loan of all the
money he desired. He did so, and
the burghers of Holland loaned to
the L. s. Colonies at various times
from that time-l777 to 17SS-up-
wards of $2l 200, 900. the last loan
of which was borrowed at the sug-
gestion of Thomas jefferson, who
in 1778, went over to succeed Mr.
Adams, who was desirous of re-
turning to America, where he was
shortly afterwards chosen vice
president. Mr.. jefferson, know
ing the straits the United Colonies
were then in for money to put into
effect the machinery of government
as agreed upon at the constitution
al convention in 1887, which had
been ratified by the Legislature of
a majority of the colonies, suggest
ed to Mr.. Adams to borrow in HOl-
lard money enough to run the
government of the Z. s. for its
fiscal year of l7s9-9O, and together
they negotiated this loan, even
without authority of congress, the
Dutch relying on their personal
integrity. Dutch financiers sug-
gested to Mr.. Adams how to float
his loans Gin the days that tried
mems souls" by borrowing from
themselves money to pay accrued
interest which, owing to the fluctu-
ations of the war, were not forth
coming from America.
But this is not all. An emissary
of the colonists-Lawrence by
name, father of Col. John Law
renee, afterwards ambassador of
the United Colonies to the court of
Louis XVI, of France-was sailing
to Holland in a Dutch vessel with
dispatches for Adams, when the
vessel was searched by a British
man-of-war, and the papers which
Lawrence carried having been
thrown overheard without having
been sufficiently weighted, were
seen and pftked up by the board
ing party, and England demanded
of Holland to allow no American
emissaries in that country; when
to use the language of the publi-
cation authorized by our own gov
ernment-"the lofty reply was,
there are no gates to The Hague, ."
and Holland and England became
involved in war on our account, and
the losses Of Dutch feet in an
encounter with one of the English
probably amounted to more than
the entire loan to America.
This, coupled with the fact that
the Beers have justice on their
side, has enlisted in their favor the
sympathy of every true American
conversant with the facts in the
case, and Mr.. Mckinley, if cogni-
zant Of the truth Of history, should
he formally refuse in an official
capacity to receive the president
of republic struggling for its ex-
istence against the same despotism
that used its utmost endeavors to
crush us-which it would do to-day
il it had the power, lacking which
it uses mercenary means to accom-
plish the same end--he will be re-
creant to the principles of a true
American, bastard at heart, and
a subservient tool of the successor
Of George III as was Benedict Ar
hold Of that mad monarch; and
while the name Of Paul Kruger
will 60 down to posterity as a true
patriot that Of VIM. Mckinley will
be held in execration by all good
men as an accomplice Of assassins
of liberty.
By all means. let Pres. Kruger
come to the U. S., where all true
will give him, as the
Irish say, a "Cead mile failthe! !"
"a thousand times welcome that
will show to tyrants that Ameri-
cans sympathize with those who
are struggling for their rights as
we may ere long be compelled to-
do il we would not tamely submit
to the subversion Of our liberties
by such miuions Of plutocracy and
royalty as VIM. Mckinley & Co..
J. NJ, Wilmore, Pa, May 20, in
Johnstown Democrat.
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