Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-12-09
MONEY RAISED FOR Beers
MASS MEETING IN CHICAGO TO AID
BUTCHERS.
BOurke Cochran Says President
Roosevelt Could Easily Stop
the Trouble There.

A dispatch from Chicago last night says:
A program Of protest against British meth
DDS in the South African war was carried
ont before an Immense audience in the Au-
ditorium Theater here tonight. Following
an eloquent address by w. Bourke Cochran
and earnest speeches by others resolutions
for the appointment Of committee 70
bring the sentiments of the meeting before
the President were adopted
Although an admission fee was charged,
the funds being intended to assist the
Beers, and especially their women ana
children, standing room was at a premium
and many were unable to gain admittance.
The program opened with the song, Ihe
True Heart" sung by nineteen German
w. Thomas, head Of the Peoples Church,
followed with prayer. Then followed short
addresses by Judge Theodore Bretano ana
Judge Murray, F. Tuley, chairman an, o. .ne
League, under the auspices Of which the
meeting was held.
Mr.. Cochran, the orator of the evening,
was greeted with tumult OF applause.
He said In part:
"Many men differ about the invasion of
the South African republics all are agreed
that the restoration of peace Is In the
highest degree desirable. There are but
two ways in which the war can be termi-
nated-either the Beers must surrender or
the English government must abandon the
attempt to subdue them. 1t Is quite gen
orally assumed that the resistance of the
Beers cannot be successful, and II this be
true they would not be justified in contin-
uing a struggle which involved fruitless
loss of life and waste OF property even
though the losses inflicted on their enemy
were tenfold greater than what they SUI
fered themselves, for bloodshed which Is
useless is always indefensible.
'But is it true that the resistance Of the
Beers is hopeless? Since the fall Of Pre-
toria 1t certainly has not been fruitless; it
has been justified by most important re-
suits Lord Salisburys position that moth
ing but absolute surrender would be con-
sidered has been abandoned, and today the
burghers could secure almost any terms
short of complete and explicit acknowledS-
ment of their independence. AS their re-
sistance has not been fruitless, neither Is
their struggle for independence hopeless.
On the contrary, If their resistance be pro-
| longed for few months the abandonment
| of the struggle to subdue them by Great
| Britain is inevitable
This statement is not based on any spe-
| cial information concerning the war. but
| on the conviction that 1t would be impossi-
| BILE for the government to secure the pas
| sage Of many more war appropriations
| through the house Of commons. The last
| budget was passed only after immense diff
| fculties. All sources of taxation have
| practically been exhausted and the attempt
| to effect another large war loan would re-
d
| as would seriously jeopardize British in
| dustries If, then, the Boer forces can hold
| the field little longer the attempt to sub
| due the republics must be abandoned for
| lack of means to pursue 1t.
providence has so ordered events that
| the President Iof the United States can
| compose this bitter quarrel. 1t Is an ex-
| traordinary opportunity offered to an ex-
| traordinary man. 1t would not be neces-
| sary to draw the sword, to make any threat
| Of armed Intervention or to take an I'M
| friendly attitude One word spoken to the
! English ambassador, or In the hearing OF
| the English nation, would restore peace,
| establish justice. secure liberty to these
| burghers, promote enormously the pros
/ perity of the human race and bring i'm
/ measurable glory to the American nation.
/ Will that word be spoken? Never in his
| tory have such momentous results hung on
| the lips of human being. VIII Theodore
| Roosevelt improve, this opportunity for
himself, his c0untry and the whole human
/ A letter from Carl Schurz was read
| The following resolutions were adopted:
Resolved. That we. as American citizens:
| property of non-combatants by English
/ military In South Africa. without precedent
in modern times. save by English officers
| in the war of the American revolution, Is
| a source of needless suffering to the people
| Of the South African republics and without
| advantage to the military operations Of the
British army: ana tnat the slaughter OF
fish prison pens Is a causeless outrage upon
4 the humanity of the civilized world, which
| amply justifes concentrated remonstrance
by American and European states and be-
| lieyinR that the rights and obligations OF
| common humanity are not determined by
i geographical or political limitations, and
rsgardlns the .rea.y OF 7. ISL as made to be
lea, do most solemnly demonstrate and pro
test against the acts OF the English gov
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