The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1901-10-19
THIRD
SUMMER
CAMPAIGN
Shows the Beers are Still on
The Aggressive.
Their Heroic Struggle Re-
viewed by the Omaha
World Herald

The Beers are opening their summer
campaign with renewed zeal and increas
ing numbers. Conservative estir' ate'
place their armies at $4,000 men. ThiI
is nearly four times larger than Wash
ington's army at the ebb tide of the re-
volution. The Americans won their Ii
berty at cost Of 5000, 900, 600 to the Bri.
tsh government. II has cost Great Bri-
tain more than 800 OOO,O to subdue
the Beers, and the end is distant. Like
ourselves, the Beers have had proscrip.
tive proclamations hurled at them, their
people have been deported or coralled,
vet they are as defiant as ever. Boer
soldiers spring outot the ground, or any
where Lord Kitchener does not expect
them. He has proclaimed they must
! submit or be branded as traitors and
their property forfeited. The day OF Bri-
tish grace has passed. The Beers give
their answer in the capture of Kitchen
er's outposts and soldiers. With 5000
miles Of railroad to guard with an a-my
reputed TO number 260 900 men, Kitch-
ener has his hands tied, and the alert
Boer generals roam at will over South
Africa. One is in Natal with his forces,
another is near Pretoria swooping down
on every weak British outpost and an
other is oyerrunning Cape Colony, on
the coast lines, where they have easy
communication with the outside world,
and from whence it is easy to see they
derive their inexhaustible supplies OF
arms and ammunition. Cape Colony is
seething with discomfort and undisguised
revolt The Boer forces are within forty
miles miles Of Cape Town Thus, from
the Transvaal to the Cape OF Good Hope,
they are swarming over the country,
while Kitchener hugs the railroad sys-
tens to keep his army from disaster.
In the awful events through which we
have recently passed American people
have not kept in close touch with the
heroic struggle Of the soldiers Of liberty |
in South Africa. They have remained
under the impression that the struggle |
remained as at the beginning Of the war
between the several hundred thousand !
Boeru in the South African republics
and Great Britain. The beld has been
enlarged. II now covers all or very
nearly all Of South Africa, containing a
population Of nearly 5000 900, or about
the same as the American colonies when
they threw off the British yoke. These
are backing the republican armies, and
in the end Great Britain must withdraw
from the struggle.
As an organized government, all OF
British South Africa has not revolted,
but the fact remains the Beers are re
ceiving constant accessions. and they al
ways knows where to strike the weak
est point in their adyersaries lines. With
an enemy as ungenerous as Kitchener
has shown himself TO be by his recent
proclamation, they will never submit 10
British authority. II they are conquered,
which the present situation does not in.
dictate, Great Britain will have South
African Ireland" on it's hand. As with
the American colonies, Great Britain
has committed the same blunder with
Sonth Africa Instead OF permitting
the Americans TO manage their home
affairs in their own way, as it does to
Austalia, and refuses to Ireland, Great
Britain applied force as il ia doing to
the Beers. History records the result
of the American revolution, and many
bear the same record OF the Beers in
future years. The North ministry be.
thought the Americans lamb with wool
to be be fleeced. They found wolf
with fur, They wanted the fur. Ed
mund Burke asked, "Who will shear the
wolff" CORVALLIS and Clinton were
not successful in the attempt. Cham
bertain and Kitchener are meeting with
Al