Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-12-13
FOR HUMANITYS SAKE.

of Gen. Kitchener, then indeed does
humanity have reason to weep for the
victims and to blush for their execu-
tioner. And not only SO; the civiliza.
tion and the Christianity which lets
this state of things go ON without n
protest against its barbarity, or so
much as an audible prayer to Heaven
to ward off its inevitable outcome Of
the determination of race as heroic
as any that history has told us of, lifts
an Apache or a Boxer to level of
comparative responsibility. There Is
every reason to believe that the re-
ported mortality Is not essentially cX-
aggerated. Indeed, it is from English
official sources conclusively shown that
at the death rate which has prevailed
In the camps since they We're estab-
lished-and which, now, as the South
African midsummer approaches, is
alarmingly on the increase, In less than
ten years from now the Beers will lit,
orally have ceased to exist.
1t would be charitable, but PROBABLY
not truthful, to conclude that such
IS not the purpose of the man who
ia doing Chamberain's bloody work
on the veldt. 1t is difficult to escape
the conclusion that he was selected
with special reference to his aptitude
for the Weylerism which lie Is now
practising. The civilization which can
retain in its service general whose
chief title to glory was that act of
causeless vandalism which destroyed
the tomb OF the Mahdi at Khartoum,
In ftly represented by the same com
mander when its work has descended
to the killing of women and little ones
by methods beside Of which the blow
ing Of the Sepoys from the mouths of
British cannon few years ago was
humane and courageous.
This determination In to be of a peo.
pie having peculiar claims upon the
pity and help of our time and coun-
try. They sprang from European
nation to which we are largely in
debt for those OF our ancestors of
whom we need not be ashamed, for
some of our most valuable free insti.
tutions, and, above all else, for that
broad spirit of liberation in matters
both civil and religious. which has been
at once the pride and support of our
liberties. Self-exiled from their coun.
try of origin. amid unheard OF priva-
tions and hard-ships. they subdued n
grudging soil, drove out wild beasts
and wilder men, and founded gov,
eminent suited to their own needs and
wishes, but broadly tolerant OF thos,
OF others who chose to cast their lot
with them. COvetous of the gifts
which nature had bestowed upon them
and having absorbed by far the larger
part OF the latter, but yet graspinp
Tor oil, English cupidity picked IA quar-
rel with them, and the devastation OF
which the starvation and pestilenc,
which now stalk unrestrained In Kitch
ener's prison pens are but the hitting
sequels, is the result. That their ab
solute destruction has been determined
upon by the British government /,
disclosed by the declaration of Mr.
Chamberlain that mot one shred" o
Independence shall he left them. 4,
u race of sucli lineage aud such fortl
tude, this decree simply meant OK
termination, aud no man knew It NOR
thoroughly than the Colonial Secretary
Our people have a heavy responsible
ity laid upon them In this matter. |
il well known, ON all hands that on
word spoken by authority of America
one resolution passed by our Congress,
NfNH SAf' NAV 4
niendation in the message of the Pre-,
ident, would stop the cowardly wor
OF death In Kitchdners trochas. An
why Is not the word spoken, the res,
luton passed, the message forthcon
ing?
The answer is easy and well knowi
We are committed to a policy whic
upbolds and countenances whatev,
may be found necessary to be done
order that the last shred" of ind
pendence may he wrenched from Il
Boers,-eyen to the slaughter of Il
innocents now going on.
BY tacit, II not express, agreemer
1t was understood that Great Brita
should keep other nations from inte
fering with us in our unprovoke
4 c0nQuest OF people who had ney