Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-09-25

AFuSeT yeSteTudy am uDle 10 say
that we have bur one plan, but one
hope. The plan is to 60 on fighting
as long as may be necessary. The
hope is that sooner or later England
will come to her senses and grant us
peace with independence. 1t is terri
BILE ordeal through which we are pass
ing. Not one out Of FIVE fathers of
families in the Transvaal and Orange
Free State is able to see his wife and
children from one months end to an
other. Most of them are unable to get
any news or letters from their loved
ones. They only know that the NOR
tally among the women and children
In the British camps is very great
three times as great as that among the
English soldiers in the field.
"But what else can we do except 60
on fighting? Thanks to the new Eng
lish policy Of destruction. there Is no
longer Transvaal, no longer an
ORANGE Free State. The land is there,
but 1t is grown with weeds. Accord
ing to the reports of the English them
selves. they have burned the houses,
the barns. the stacks: they have driven
away all the live stock; they have even
destroyed the plows. the hoes, all the
farming implements. Are we to sur
render. lay down our arms, give up
our honor and our independence and
60 back to nothing? Shall we yield
up our liberty for the sake Of being
reunited to our wives and children.
only to see them starve amid the ruin
which the invader has wrought? Much
as our men love their wives and chill
dren. we shall never do It,"
president Kruger has hopes that In
the end England will give you peace
with independence"
Eyes. He says his hope Is stronger
now than ever before. England is tired
of the war. We have many friends
there, and they keep us advised of the
situation. Chamberlain is losing ground
every day. General Kitchener's proc
lamation. prompted by Chamberlain,
has helped us very much. There are in
England many thousands Of brave,
manly men who cannot stomach this
sort of warfare, this denunciation of
your enemy as bandit because you
cannot whip him. They say-they have
said in northumberland it is beneath
England's dignity to carry on such a
war. Already England has spent near
ly f2OO. 900 OOO-nearly billion of dol
lars in your money-trying to defeat
Tc 81
ready to spend f20O,O0O,0OO or f30O,-
100000 more? Public opinion in Eng
land Is rising in favor of peace with
independence. We shall fight on till
that reaction of opinion among the
English people has compelled Chamber
lain to give up his pet project to de-
stroy us root and branch.
"Why shouldn't England make peace
with independence? Has she anything
to lose? OF what value to her the
blackened. ruined veldt, the ravaged
farms? Is it a principle Of modern war
that when you beat an enemy you are
to take his country? Are you to utter
ly destroy his nation? Or is it only the
great countries that are to swallow up
the little ones? The conqueror may
take territory. He may demand in
demnity. He may ask guarantees of
future immunity from attack. But to
propose to leave no country, to annex
it bodily, to wipe a nation from the
face of the earth and force it's people
into q sullen submission to a new SOW
ereign, Is monstrous. We do not be-
lieve it possible that in this day and
generation even England Is ready to
acknowledge that war OF conquest.
a war Of loot and grab, is justitiable."