Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1901-08-03
HUMANITY STAGGERED.

The graphic picture of the horrors
OF the reconcentrado camps in South |
Africa, painted in lecture at Chicago |
last night by Rev. Herman D. Van
Brock huizen of Pretoria, will cause
every lover of humanity to shudder. A
parliamentary paper last week showed
that on June 1st there were IS, 40
white persons and %, 4S9 colored in
these camps. and Mr.. Van Brock hui
zen declares that the death rate among
them is so great that it would mean, if
continued, the determination of the
BOer race in nine years.
When President Kruger declared
that the war would stagger humanity,
he could hardly have had in view such
pictures as these. Even Tacitus' cele-
brated epigram, ''They make desert
and call it peace, did not imply that
helpless men, women and children were
herded into unsanitary camps to be-
come the prey of hunger and disease.
In spite of these tactics the recuper-
alive powers of the Beers are marvel
Gus. The New York World calls at
time Lord Miner of Cape Town was
declaring in London the other day that
the Beers are rowing rutfians, harrow
ing their fellow British subjects of
Cape Colony, the newsboys we're crying
the capture of train near Beaufort
West and the defeat of 400 British cav
airy near Cradock. These are impor-
tant railroad stations in Cape Colony,
enough to prove that the forces of the
Republicans are still too we'll organized
to deserve the epithet of growing ruff
fans"
In view of the fact that all our news
of the battles has come from British
sources, it is remarkable that so few
accounts of ruffianism on the part of
the Beers have been received. Lord
Kitchener has submitted strong proof
Of his assertion that the Beers shot
British wounded at Viakfcntein. Such
barbarity is to be deplored, but it does
not follow that all the Beers are lack
ing in humanity. Excuses are often
committed by few persons on the
field Of battle, but their actions should
not cast 9 stain on the character of a
people whose conduct under great pro
vocation has indicated soldierly self
control kitchener's deliberate policy
of inhumanity toward helpless recon-
centrados is much truer index OF
character than even indicative muir
ders committed on a battle field.
For Americans the most strikin g
passage in Mr.. Van Brock huizen's ad
dress should be that which told of the
following message of President Kruger
to the people of this country:
'Tell them they are helping the
English to slaughter our people by sup
plying them with horses, mules and
the munitions Of war;
The other day twenty-five carloads
of mules were shipped east from til
Sacramento valley. The demand fo1
horses and mules for South Africa ha
drained the Mississippi valley of it
spare animals and has nearly doubled
their value. Americans who woul,
scorn proposal to enlist to crush lib
erty in South Africa have been mad
rich by supplying the necessaries
war to the British army. Our govern
ment has decided that the traffic
legal. When the day of judgment 70
nations comes, France, whose aid W
sought not in vain in our own cOntes
for freedom, will put US to shame 70
our attitude towards the Beers in thei
horOic efru0olo