Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-11-21
HAY, THERE!

monico's on TUESDAY night Inc
United States government was repre-
scented there in the person of John
Hay. Secretary of State. This man
was in congenial company there.
This man who testified last year that
he selected his place of residence with
reference to avoiding payment of
taxes, saw around him poverty
stricken crowd, who like him, are
proverbial tax dodgers, and the furni-
ture and grub must have reminded
him of his sad condition which
prompts him to avoid the assessors
eye. A toast also was drunk to
King Edward, which must have car
ried the Secretary back in fancy to
the days when he too was living in
dear old "Lunnon," and the other sur
roundings were characterlsticnlly
"henglish," you know! We did not
observe, however, in the press ac-
counts of the affair, any toast or other
allusion to President Kruger, who is
still alive.
The astounding feature of the ban
quet was the assertion of Mr.. Hay
that his conduct OF American diplo-
macy had been guided by the pre-
cepts of the Golden Rule" How
that statement must have blistered his
It must have required the stomach of
a moral ostrich!
When we consider that the policy
of Kitchener in maintaining his con
centratiOn camps in South Africa Is
worse than that of Weyler in Cuba
ever was, and that It's purpose is, and
its results will he, to actually kill off
an entire people-than whom braver
never livcd-within n dozen years;
and when we reflect further that our
State department, through the nsplr-
alton of John Hay, has given Europe
to understand that we are backing
Great Britain in this shocking warfare,
and that for that reason alone the
other powers are kept from Interior
ing In the interest of that common
humanity which he lacks, how every
American cheek must tingle with
shame at such an exhibition of servile
trucking to Joe Chamberlain.
We cannot reprobate this unworthy
conduct of so.called American any
better than by calling attention to the
following statement made by a cor
respondent of the New York Times
In Its Issue Of Monday. When 1t be-
comes true, as he says. that Kitch.
sners work In slaughterng innocents
has made Herod respectable, and
that our government is his accessory
in the work, It is high time for oul
Secretary OF State to talk about tn,
Golden Rule" He wouldn't know Il
II he met 1t In tho road.
The Times correspondent writes:
"some one has asked what could b,
done by Qur government to help tn,
Beers In South Africa and put a stoI
to the barbaritles Of savage warfare
inflicted upon themp The answer IL
a simple one When Pretoria was
filled with English prisoners captured
by the Beers the American Consu
was objected and allowed TO ylsi
them daily and report TO the Boer au
thorities any complaints which the,
made TO him and which seemed I,
him reasonable.
why should not our Consul do tn,
same for the poor women and children
In the awful concentrate camps? w
went 30 war with Spain on account o
similar camps In Cuba, none of whicl
were half as horrible as those wher
the poor little Boer children are dyinI
at the rate OF one every other day
! never could believe that the nobl
English nation would approve an
such monstrous cruelty, and, althougI
greatly disilusioned, stlll make a
lowances for the stress of "A war /
which all the honor and glory hay
been on the Boer side and all tb
brutality and humiliation on theirs.
Chamberlain Is the only man in IN
English nation who would have &,
lected the most notorously brutal q
generals TO carry out the bloody behes
of annihilating n free people solel
because they loved their freedom an
who Is doing his appointed work, a
he cannot conquer the men, by d.
stroying the poor little children {
the rate of over four hundred out {
the thousand year. rate which wi