The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-30

and putting an end to this horrible bust
ness. No man can acquit himself as a
citizen here or elsewhere and remain
silent upon this subject. cloud p
plauSe.)
A war of desolation and devastation,
a war of humiliation is being carried
on, a war which means the utter de-
struction of a race. Within a short
time past five hundred meetings have
been held in England to protest against
this inhunan war. Shall we not there
fore plead with England for peace?
General Grant on his death bed said,
Let US have peace" These are great
words.
"Hoarse banks the wolf, the vulture
creams from afar;
The angel pity shuns he ranks of
war;"
May the day be near at hand when
men shall beat their swords into plow-
shares, and their spears into pruning
hooks, and the nations shall learn war
no more. (Great applause.)
]. G. WATERS ADDRESS.
Capt. J. G. Waters spoke as follows:
In 1886 the Dutch burghers in Cape
Colony becoming dissatisfied with Brit
ish misrule, started ON their great jour
ney. Without an outward sign of emo
ton they left their homes, put out the
fireS, and started out into almost DESC
lation itself to settle a land that had not
yet been discovered by an Englishman.
There was no assurance of hope in the
sky, that circled and domed them as an
inverted bowl Of brass. There was no
promise in the land; in front was the
sterile, voiceleSs Karroo desert, that by
no token spoke of seed time or harvest
A rough reach of hill land, devoid. of
verdure, no dew upon it's parohed
leagues, no rain that comes in April
time upon our roofs No stream but
what was a foaIning torrent, or else.
trailing it's river bed high in air as a
dust cloud borne by the hurrying
winds or the binding sirocco. But
sparse flowers, and not one to cast per-
fume. Here and there around them
were great walls, and hum
mocky kopjes, with b~ouldered Sides, that
God in his prophetic wisdom had erect
ed as Fashioned forts for them against
British armies which fifty years after
ward would besiege their liberties. A
jungle or a barren. Out of the matted
thickets cleaned strange, fierce eyes,
but they dreaded them less than the
implacable British beast. The savage
animals that environed their pathway
were their kindergarten school. in which
they learned to ascertain the way to
finds the bulls eye, when the target was
an Englishman. They were taught that
three bullets would certainly kill three
antelopes or hit four Tommy Atkins
Slowly their creaking wains moved on;
no stop nor stay, save to dig a grave
or wait expected birth. They needed
no one to go in and spy out the land
and bring back the Sunday school clus-
ter OF raD6S Sung DoLWeen lne TWO
carriers. They had come from the Zuy-
der Zee; they had throttled. turned
back and v~anquished the perpetualiy
-encroaching seas; and a long, persistent,
tensioned and bitter quarrel with Ma
ture in its ugliest and most malignant
moods, had for them no prophecy of
disaster. In this cherries land they
mad their homes. They were beyond
the reach of human cupidity or envy.
Alone with their families, their fockS
and herds, and before them the open
page of the Bible. They
fought the desert, and they battled the
Kaffir. Forty years afterward the Eng
fish government sent Sir TheophiluS
as a secret vicerOy to Africa
with power of parliament and attribute
of king. He annexed these Beers and
their country to the British crown. Not
that they consented or ratified or par
ticipated in the settlement. 1t was
theirs to protest; and four years later
to lift their own flag and repeat the
deathless story OF Thermopylae at
Laing's Mex and Majuba HILL led
to a convention in which England re-
power on it's treaties with other states
and tribes That would have been
the situation today had there been
no discoveries of gold in the
WetwaterSrand ridges. With gold came
the immigrants. Every complaint and
criticism made against the Beers for
their extreme -exactionS under the min
ing laws can be made with double force
dSaAAAoL Lit laws tAO ~
ninion, which our miners in the Klon-
dixie have been required to submit to,
and no one hears of the United States,
American Rhodes or Jameson,
threatening that colonia dependency
with raid or annexation. Then came the
raid in 1895, which p-resupposed
that the o~utlanders would rise and join
in the revolt just as soon as they came
over the border. They did not rise; If
they had grievances to redress, they had
not the courage to tax up arms to end
them. The gravemen of the wrongs
perpetrated by the Beers was that they
oppressed these o~utlanders. II is re-
if this story is true, that out
of 100, 600 brawny o~utlanders, less than
a hundred went to join Jameson; and
while Australia and Canada sent theil
battalions, not a regiment formed Oh
these oppressed men rushed TO the
rescue of their own cause; when the
ships brought in q quartz of a million
of fighting men from shores beyond the
far seas to fight for them. The five fold
increase of British pay has not been
any inducement for them to enlist to
right their wrongs. From the discov.
cry of gold, the British empire has
had at recurring periods. a desire I'd
take this country in out of DeWet But
as late as 1899. Lord Salisbury, Lord
Derby, Chamberlain and others in
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