The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-30

ish government was massing it's troops
along the border and that mischief was
evidently meant and a great horror
might come upon his people,, Kruger
finally consented and told them that if
satisfactory that would be done, but re-
ce1ved no answered. least no SatiSfac-
tory answer. Meantime the massing of
the troops went on and on along the
border. Kruger asked Joe Chamberlain,
the man who had been attending to this
matter for Great Britain, all this
meant. The answer was, w have
nothing to say" Then the Beers knew
that they had something to do. And
they propose to do it, and how we'll
they have done it you al know and the
world knows. cloud a~pplause).
But then say the English we have our
destiny to fulfill, our duty to do to civ
ilization and to Christianity And we,
the British government, have this to do
and we must do it If we have to kill
everyone of them. daughter and ap-
plause). We propose to save their souls
if in so doing we have to STAY everyone
of their bodies; we propose to exalt
their spirits by crucifying their flesh.
Ia is the position of the British en-
pire. They say that these people are
ignorant and dirty and low and not
progressive and need a more civilized
and progressive rule to lift them up,
you know, to a plane of higher civilian
ton, to cheat and lie, and steal by law.
Their duty-they are going to do their
d0Lts 4NOWs d. ~ LIZ I'll LII
Beers, that reminds me of an anecdote
of the Revolutionary war. The British
Col. Tarleton had a portion of his hand
carried off in a battle by the American
Col. Morgan. Afterwards in CONVERSE
ton with an American woman, Tarleton
s@id that Morgan was a very ignorant
MIN. The lady replied, H seems to be
able to make his mark" (Applause).
That is all 1 have to say about the ig-
norance of the Beers. About 35, 200 have
put over 100, 900 of the British out of ac-
ton, and I suppose they know how to
go in out of the rain, if they mind the
rain. (Applause).
While the English people are very
good people, they could learn some les
sons from these Beers. (Applause.) I
think they have learned some which
should be highly beneficial. (Applause.)
England did not count the cost If she
had she never would have made this
war. If some of her wisest men had
been listened to she never would. But
now she is into it. Her chief soldier
at the beginning, General Butler, de-
clared that he would eat his Christmas
dinner in 1S99Lthree ChriStmases ago
in Pretoria. / do not know whether
he ever got there or not, but one thing
is certain on Christine as, 1899, he had
not yet managed to cross the Tugela
river. They said that an army of SO, 900
would be amply sufficient, that when
he regular British army got down
there Dutch farmers would scatter like
sheep before them-there would be no
war whatever worthy of the name.
They have been required to put in the
field over 100000 men-more men than
England has marSha1led at any one
time in her history; her greatest armies
are now in the field against the few
despised Dutch farmers.
1 do not say this to underrate the
English people They are a brave peo-
pie but they undertook an ~unrighteous
and Ubiquitous war in which the hand
of man and the law of heaven is against
them. They said it would not cost more
khov ~ eE0 000 000 II hos o@-t ~ 70 +I14
present time 1,0O0,0 900, 900, besides Brit
ish securities have shrunk another
800, 600, 900. 1t is costing now 81, 900, 600
a day. 1t has cost England more than
either of her wars with this country,
more than the Crimean war and nearly
as much as the Napoleonic wars.
England would willingly quit if she
could know that the matter would drop
out of human memory; that she would
not be laughed at, scorned, despised;
but she insists that she must go on to
show her mettle. John Morley, a MEM
Der of parliament, reminds the govern
nent that nothing is S obad as mettle in
a blind horse. daughter and a~pplause)
Fooled, baffied, beaten, ou-t-generaled.
out-fought, ~out-done, the British au-
thorities are covered with humiliation.
Driven to desperation, furious, frantic
with rage. they have flung to the winds
all the rules of civilized war, and are
now Waging a war of devastation, ex-
termination and d~epopulation-
You know that every true Englishman
regrets it, and that his face hushes
with shame at the thought that his
mother country is waging such an in
famous war; going about the country
burning houses, dragging from houses
their Misunderstanding from these
houses defenselesS women, in all stages
and conditions@women with newborn
babes are ruthlessly dragged from their
homes. thrown into rude wagons and
carried away and the last seen of the
home is the smoke and blaze which evil
dences that the homestead is in process
of destruction. Every bit of personal
operty absolutely taken away and de-
stroyed; domestic fowls and animals
killed and taken away, or left to rot and
feed the beasts of prey. where not nee
essary for food Immediately. Destruc-
ton of growing crops and everything
that can sustain life. The whole and
laid waste, devastated, desolated-
All non-combatanIS thrown into pens
surrounded by barbed wire fences-old
men, women of all ages, and little chill
dren, tottering age and toddling infancy.
Out of 109, 600 the death rate is upwards
of 28, 900 per year. At that rate in less
than four years they will all be dead.
Can man justify such conduct as hat?
Can man justify such conduct toward
MANI Can a true people say that they
can condcne such Now the
time has come for mankind to arouse
itself and take action to the stopping