The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-12-13
JOBES TAKES UP
CAUSE OF Beers
President of Bank of Com
merce Issues Circular
CALLING ON CHURCHES
To Petition for Peace in South
Africa.
KANSAN DONATES $500
TO Aid in EnIisting Churches
in the Work
KANSAN DONATES 500

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has taken up the cause of the brave Beers
and has isS ued circular and sent it TO
nearly all the ministers in Wichita, in
which he SAYS:
a philanthropic gentleman residing in
Kansas, who desires that his name be
not mentioned, has left with US one hun
dred dollars, and requested that we use
the money as far as it viii go in placing
the Cosmopolitan article and blank petit
tons before the ministers of Kansas, Ok
lahoma and other western states. We
therefore enclose herewith copies of each,
and request that you read the article be-
fore your congregation christmas Day
preferred) and request all men and women
present who are N sympathy with the
movement to sign the petition, after
which We viii ask that you kindly for
ward the same direct TO the Cosmopolitan
Magazine, New York.
As the time before Christmas is so
limited now, we win not be able to pro-
cure the names Of all the churches and
ministers. and have, Therefore, concluded
60 address the papers to the pastors Of
the N. Z. and Presbyterian churches re-
spectively, enclosing few extra copies
which we Will thank you to at once hand
20 any other ministers who may reside
sn your city and if thereafter you should
have any copies left, please forward them
10 any ministers you may know residing
in eastern states. and request that they
make similar disposition of them.
we believe. with the gentleman who
IS bearing this expense, that the war in
South Africa has gone far enough, and
that too many good and true men are be-
ing slaughtered that the appalling spec
tacle Of twelve hundred women and chill
dren dying every month from the effects
OF the war, should be stopped.
We also believe that friendly inter
Vention upon the part Of the people of
the United States to stop this waste of
blood and treasure would not be unwel-
come to alarge majority of the people of
Great Britain. and that any honorable
plan OF settlement that would save to
the Beers their republic and the lives of
their remaining men. women and children,
would be gratefully received by them.
Very truly yours, a. c. Jobes, Pres"
Accompanying the circular of Mr.. Jobes
the following petition is sent out, with a
request that church members should sign
it on Christmas Day.
PEACE ON EARTH.
On Christmas Day a hundred thousand
congregations will assemble throughout
the United States. TO hear repeated this
command of Christ. Shah not these words
have for them practical application?
century, and viii ind 100000 troops of
the Christian nation of Great Britain
standing, rife in hand, on the South At
Tican veldt, trying 20 destroy another
Christian people. The horrors of war,
which IS now in its third year, have been
unusual
We Americans have cause to feel deeply
over these conditions. On one side is
England, with whom we are united by
blood, and commerce, and customs. On
the other. brave republic, enduring UNI
hinchingly death and hardship for the
same principles which were at stake in
our own War of Independence The Eng
lish people with whom we have such
close ties of friendship, have been placed
by short-sighted politicians in the false
and ruinous position of seeking to destroy
brave republic with whose interests
England would have been in harmony
had there been intelligent negotiation.
More than 10000 lives and $500 00G GOO have
been sacrificed as the first results of this
mistaken policy, and in the third year of
the war the latest news 10y cable tells US
Of Il officers and 23S men killed and
wounded in the last fight Other cable
grams tell Of l0ae 90 additional men being
drilled in English camps for immediate
service. and that the commons VIII very
shortly be called upon TO add another
hundred million of taxes
This 10 say nothing of l0G00 Boer fami-
lies scattered over the veldt and endur-
ing wretchcdness almost without a paral-
lei. or held in great prison camps where
The death-rate and attendant horrors are
almost equal 10 our own Andersonvflle
Have the Christians who viii gather in
American churches on Christmas Day no
interest in these TWO peoples Can they
do nothing beyond meeting and singing
Peace on Earth
An effort behind which lies at least 2
promise Of success VIII be made by the
Cosmopolitan 10 secure the cooperation
Of those who as Christians do active
work in aid of the unfortunate particle
pants in this great stPcggle-who as be-
levers ia republic owe determined effort
- preserve g other lands the principle
that all g#ernment derives its lust
powers from the consent Of the governed.
Strange retrogression on the part of the
American republicans, that during the
nearly three years 10 word Of protest has
gone up against the crushing of an in
5ant republic. Have they been indiffer-
ent 10 the struCsle2 Everywhere over the
country there are Indications that the
most intense feeling perVades all classes
Of people.
1t is impossible TO believe that If the
American people unitedly petition their
English brothers 70 submit the issues TO
arbitra ton. there would not be a favora-
bic response Ten thousand earnest
meetings on Christmas Day expressing
only the sentiments that already iiu every
breast. would quickly bring about the
desired result
Ne owe IL 10 England 10 seriously en-
neavor To settle war which is 50 waste
iui Of the blood Of her splendid youth and
- rapidly bringing her resources under
the mortgage of an immense national
debt We owe ii 10 the republicans Of
South Africa, who have shown the most
magnificent shirt since the world began.
70 do sometimes Tor their liberty