The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1901-11-18
BOER
RESCUE
MEETING
To be Held in Great
Auditorium
Protest Against the British
Policy in South Africa.
If Roosevelt Would Say the
Word 100000 Rough
Riders Would Enlist.

NluEIo WUutu LuiIot'
CHICAGO, Nov. l8-The monster Mass
Meeting to be held at the Auditorium,
Chicago, on December Sth, under the
auspicies Of the Ct icago Branch of the
American Transvaal League, at which
the eloquent Bourke Cochran will be the
speaker, promises to assume National
proportions and to have iar-reaching re-
suits. The Committee on Resolutions,
consisting of Ex-Judge Moran, DIR.
Hiram w. Thomas, Sigmund Ieisler and
F. j. Loesch will submit resolutions
asking President Roosevelt to take i'm
mediate steps TO stop the shipment OF
horses and mules from New Orleans to
Cape Town, to be used by the British
forces in South Africa, calling attention
TO the Treaty Of Washington, between
the United States and Great Britain,
dated May 8, 1871. which provides that
"a neutral government is bound not to
permit or suffer either belligerent to
make use OF its ports or waters as the
base Of naval operations against the 9TH
or or for the purpose Of renewal or aug
mentation Of military supplies or arms,
or recruitment of men, and also calling
attention to the proclamation of Queen
Victoria, dated April 90, 1898, referring
to this provision and calling for its strict
enforcement during the pendency Of the
war between the United States and
Spain.
The PRESIDENT will also be remind, d
of the unspeakAble condition Of British
concentration camps in South Africa,
where the death rate is $40 per annum
per 900, as shown in the following edi-
torial taken. from the Manchester
Guardian" OF September 4, 1901;
1.-THE annual deathrate among the
children in the Tiansyasl camps is about
$40 per 1000. In less than three years,
II the war goes on and the camps remain
as deadly 10 their inmates, everyone Of
these babies, our prisoners, will be dead.
The death rate for men. women, and
children in these Transvasl camps was
at the annual rate OF 2l0 per 1000
That is to say, II the present arrange
ments were maintained for five years,
every Boer inmate of the camps, man,
woman and child, would be dead. There
is no parallel in history, as far as we
k now, to this process of eXlernination,
steadily continued month after month,
in which the enemy's casualties in the
field seem likely TO be completely
eelipsed by the holocaust Of woman and
infants"
His attention will also be called TO the
precedent established by President Nc
Kinley when in referring to the recon-
centrado camps in Cuba, he stated IRE.
concentration, adopted avowedly as a
war measure in order to cut off the re-
sources Of the insurgents, worked its
predestined result. As | said in my
message last December, 1t was not a civ
ilized warfare; 1t was determination.
The only peace it can begetis that Of the
wilderness and the grave; :" and he will
be asked to follow the example set by
President Mckinley and appoint com
mittees in all the principal cities of the
United States, TO solicit and receive
funds and clothing for the relief of the
women and children who are confined
in these deadly camps or whuse homes
have been devastated.
The authorities at Washington will b,
asked to join with other powers in
mutual protest addressed to the British
Government against the maintenance o
e these camps in the interior of Soutl
D Africa along the lines OF railroad unde
q British control where the hand O
: charity cannot reach. IL will be pointe
. out that the Beers are not being Tough
fairly, for they dare not cut off supple
intended for the British army, for it
only the surplus after feeding the sol
b diers is allowed to the women and chill
Il dren imprisoned in the recoucentrad
camps.
England should be asked by the pow
= ers to remove the camps TO a neutri
territory whore friends may have frt
hand in ministering to the wants OF til
: suffering.
q "The British seek to force the Boel
TO surrender by starving their wives an
= children" say the friends OF the strul
Cling Beers.
A Committee of prominent citizens
= Chicago will be appointed TO present u
resolutions TO President Roosevelt. tn
Committee will leave for Washington
= bout December 10th and all Boer syn
pathizers throughout the United Stat
will be invited to send representatiy
u who will join the Chicago Commits
aud accompany il TO Washington.
The BOer sympsthizera are oonvinc,
= that the President can il he desires ,
much to amellorate the suffering in h
q Transyaal and in the meantime mainta
a strict neutrality, ard they have strol
hopes he will not turn deaf ear to the
= petition.