Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-03-07
THE OTHER SIDE.
A Brief Resume of the Spirited Struggle of
the Beers to Maintain independence.

About a year and half ago the
great and mighty Butler started on
his way to Pretoria with an army OF
$4,000 men, boasting that he would
eat his Christmas dinner in the CAP
tured Boer capitol. Butler has now,
howev-r, returned to England to en-
JOY the honors he gained as 1.-The fer
lyman of the Tugela," and the eating
of that famous Christmas dinner was
left to Dom Paul. But ever since the
fame Of Butler was eclipSed at Colenso
aid the blood soaked heights of SpiOn
howl of the poisonous lyddite'Shell has
reechoed among the kopjes (hills) Of
South Africa. From the Orange river
on the south to the LimpopO river on
the north the country has been turned
into a vast cemetery where lie buried
thousands of England'S best and brav-
est troops, and hundreds of patriotic
God-fearing Beers, whose great crime
H. English eyes was that they loved
aad defended the rights granted every
man by his Creator. BY order Of Kit
chener, the Alva and Weyler of South
Africa, the homes Of the Beers have
been destroyed by fire and dynamite,
and thousands Of women left homeless
and shelterless dependent upon the
charity of their enemies for the SCAN
ty rationS which barely serve to keep
body and soul together. And yet the
r no
when English armies were fleeing
broken and bleeding at Magersfontein
or Spion Kop. England is still pour
ing her men and treasure into South
Africa, every paper still reports de-
featS and hard earned victories, the
long lists of killed and wounded, as
was done nearly year and half ago.
What is the real condition of affairs
in South Africa? The lying, contra
dictOry reports from English generals
afford no light TO anyone asking this
question. When Bloemfontein was
captured, when the English flag was
raised over Pretoria, when Roberts
telegraphed that the war was over.
and that only a few bands of maraud-
ing Beers remained in the field, lovers
OF liberty all over the world sighed.
and historians prepared to write the
epitaphS OF two republics. But will
Roberts the wish had been father t.
the thought. Annexation had not an
nexed. His proclamation did not
change the Beers into British subjects
s or cause them to drop their MauSers.
Since June, 1850, When Roberts sen,
his now famous message The English
army has lost from all causes, ACCORD
ing TO official English reports, 2S,5
men. And this When, according [,
Roberts, the war was ended. Not onl
this, but the English army every
where was compelled TO act upon til
defensive. Delarey, Botha, Steyn an
DeWet attacked and captured garr
son after garrison, plundered EngIiS.-
supply trains, and carried the war TAI
into Cape Colony. within 15O miles OF
Capetown. What had never occurred
even when Joubert and Cronje were al
the head of victorious armies has now
taken place, when according to Rob
ertS 'sonly few bands of maraudine
BocrS renl;in in the field" Cape Col
ony has been invaded, martial Law
proclsined in many districts, anG
even Capetown fortified, for fear that
these bands of marauding Beers may
penetrate even that far south. Ac
cegding to these facts the situation o.