Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-10-10

supply the British with horses, and
without those horses they could not
carry on their operations against us.
Austria is the only other neutral coun-
try from which the English are able to
get horses. Nearly their whole supply
comes from America"
"And where do your men get their
h~orses?'
"From the English"
"HNhat, then, are your plans and
hopes?"
"After my conference with President
Kruger yesterday 1 am able to say
that we have but one plan, but one
hope. The plan is to go 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 a terri
bic ordeal through which we are pass
ing. Not one out of Eve 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
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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 go
on fighting? Thanks to the new Eng
lish policy of destruction, there is no
longer a Transvaal, no longer an
ORANGE Free State. The land is there,
but it 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
go back to nothing? Shall we yield
up u 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 n England will give you peace
with independence"
Yes. 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. Genera 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 a bandit because you
cannot whip him. They say-they have
lie in parlianent-that it is beneath
England's dignity to carry on such a
war. Already England has spent lear
~ G20O,O CO, O00-neaIIy a billion of dol
lars in your money-tryfng to defeat
the Beers and has not done it. Is b
ready to spend 92O0,O OO,OO or $780,
O0O,O 0 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 Eavaged
farms? Is it a principle of modern war
that when you beat an enemy you are
to take his country? Are you to utter
~ destroy his nation? Or is it only the
great countries that are to swallow up
the little ones? The conqueror a
take territory. He may demand in
demnity. Ee 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 sEl,len 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 a war Of conquest,
a war of loot and grab, is justifable."