The Irish standard., 1901-08-10


first to abolish it.
ENGLAND AIMING The KAFFIRS.
History repeats itself. The British
are arming the native savages of South
Africa against the Beers whom they
are unable to conquer in civilized war
fare. They armed the Indians of North
America in the Revolutionary war and
set them upon their own kith and kin
with tomahawk and scalping knife.
The barbarities Of the redskins in the
Valley of Wyoming are known to
every American schoolboy. After 1875
years the British leopard has not
changed his spots He is as cruel and
bloodthirsty as ever. Today in South
Africa the Kaffirs are armed allies of
England, and not an Englishman in
parliament has the humanity to pro-
test against such infamy. There is no
Chatham today to cry out against saw
age atrocity in South Africa.
General Kritzinger. the Boer COM
mander in Cape Colony, has issued Or
ders to shoot all Kaffirs in the British
army, whether armed or not Some Of
them have already been ushered into
eternity by Boer bullets. The English
want them to be treated like captured
British soldiers, and if they are not the
Beers who shoot them, If captured by
the British, are to be executed.
Joseph Chamberlain, the Judas of
British politics, is in the saddle and is
waging war of determination against
the Beers. In speech the other even
ing he declared that houses which shell
tered fighting Beers should be burned;
that devastating the enemy's country
is the natural operation Of war; that
concentration camps are humanely de-
signed and administered, despite the
terrible mortality; that mistaken leni-
ency is thing of the past; and that
Beers guilty of killing native scouts
in the service of England would be
tried by court martial and sentenced to
death.
The London Times, with its charac-
teristic brutality, endorses what Cham
herl;in said and declares that 1--WE have
carried leniency very far, further than
it has ever been carried in the history
of war, and it is time to think of the
future in businesslike way, not in the
sentimental manner of the opposition"
In other words, it. favors the en-
ployment of savages and the commits
sion of every depreciation for the sub,
iugation of civilized men fighting for
the preservation of republican liberty
in the land of their birth. Will the
nations of Europe and the United
States allow England to carry on such
barbarous warfare? We fear they will
The Beers must rely on themselves and
ask divine add to strengthen their
sturdy arms against such cruel foe.
A dispatch from Amsterdam says
that Kruger approves of Kritzinger's
treatment Of Kaffirs in the service of
England and that if the British retail
ate by shooting Boer prisoners then
the burghers will treat English prison.
ers in the same why. That is the only
thing for the Beers to do to compel
England to discharge the savages. If
100000 British soldiers cannot conquer
a handful of farmers without the aid
of the Kaffirs, then the war should
stop. The British are about whipped
when they employ them as auxiliaries
While the Beers have arms in their
hands the British will not dare carry
out the threat of Joe Chamberlain.
The British will be captured In the
future as in the past, and il Boer pris-
oners are shot, British prisoners will
be shot too. When the war began the
Zulus wanted to help the Beers against
the British, but Kruger would not lis
ten to it, saying: mo, this is war
between white men," He supposed
that the British were not the barbara
ansthey have turned out to be, and that
they would never call upon black saw
ages to help them in their cruel work.
He was egregiously mistaken.