The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-07-04
AN APPEAL TO AMERICANS.
General Pemrsons Says the Beers Are
Nnf EafrIx Treated


Not FairIy Treated
NEW oRLEiNs. July General Pear
sons, Special Agent OF the Boer Govern
ment. who conducted the recent legal
proceedings here with view OF prevent
ing the shipping of mules to South Africa.
has issued tn following address to the
American people. the title being u
Statement Of Facts: a Question and an
Appeal
The burghers Of South Africa, who
have maintained the war with Great
Britain these two years past, have III
their struggle history strikingly paraI-
lei with your own
Driven by English oppression, they
went into the wilderness and redeemed
from the wild beasts and the savage a
country for themselves. and there planted
a civilization and established a free Gov
eminent In the course Of time English
| cupidity threatened them They with
stood the demand Raids were made upon
their territory. J-Ou9s and munitions Of
war massed upon taa .-o-Isr- ami insult
| ing demands made Of iEln- The appeal
10 arms followed. Hundreds of thousands
| of British soldiers from all parts of the
| world were rnassed on the soil of these
| two little republics, containing fewer in
| habitants than any State of your Union
and yet they remain unconquered, and
/ viii so remain if the American people viii
| compel their Government to keep faith.
BY the law OF your Iand-a treaty sol
( EMMY entered into and to which you com
/ PEELED the assent OF the British Govern
ment-it is declared that the ports of the
/ United States shall not be made the base
/ of wariike operations against a nation
| with whom the United States is at peace
| The attention of your courts and your
/ President has been formally called to the
/ operations Of a body Of English army Of
fcers, with headquarters at New Orleans
/ From many parts Of the United States
/ these army officers gather horses and
/ mules for their armies. and at New Or
| leans load them on ships and take them
/ to their armies in South Africa. Without
4 these munitions of war the war on the
| South African Republics would almost in
stantly end When these republics went
/ to war with their oppressor, they did
not believe that they went to war with
I you: they had faith in your promise of
! fair play. and can hold and establish their
! freedom and keep their country il YOU
/ keep faith.
To-day the army supplies that you per
/ nit to leave your ports are used chiefly 70
| continue torturing and staying women and
/ children The revelations forced TO be
made in the English Parliament within
the past few weeks have not only shock
| ed and staggered humanity, but have
shamed it as well
How much Of the sin and shame shall
| become your own, and what viii you do
about it2
on this natal day Of your great Repub-
/ lie. viii you hot turn your thoughts from
ton of your Washington, let your hearts
90 out TO the. people who, as your ances-
! tors did. seek TO unfurI and TO uphold the
! flag of liberty. and to do so just as your
/ forefathers did. have engaged IN the
! struggle with the same enemy?
/ The appeal is made to the HbeTty-lov-
/ ing people of America Wien 1 came
! here I came fearing that the people
were hostile, as their Government has
! been unfriendIy to the Beers. / ind, in
deed, that the contrary is true The
/ hearts Of the American people go out to
! these South Africans so grandIy stTug-
/ Cling with the enormous power of Eng
! land TO maintai1 their right to keep and
/ to rule the land they redeemed; but you
/ have not impressed the Federal Admins
tration with your viii. The President
/ does not enforce the treaties. and his sub
ordinates despise them.
The English Government is at the end
of its resources The Beers have Won
against tn. m If the American people
/ viii stop tI5e shipment Of supplies from
American ports to British armies, the
war VIII end. and the WeyIer-like atroci-
ties at Bloemfonteiu and PretoTia-the
murder OF women ard chIdTen-wiII end
/ so, in behalf of those sturdy burghers
in arms, who viii part with life rather
| than liberty, in behalf of those women
and little o2es who, dying Of starvation
and in prison, yet cheer their brave ones
in the field. in the name Of your own his
tory and traditions and principles, and
for your own sakes at this season, l
make bold to pray you to keep the faith
and the law made by yourselves, and
| compel your Government to be American
! in the traditional and glorious sense