The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-04-19
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Paul Kruger's Proposed
/ Visit to America.
PLACES HE SHOULD AVOID.
Will Do Well to Keep Away
From the White House.
L1KEw1sETHE STATE DEPARTMENT

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Tiere He VIII BE Informed That the
United States Has Declared the
South African Republics to He
English Provinces-Aguinald and
|, General Funston-Trib.te to Mar
riott Brosius-The Senatorial struE-
gle In Nebraska = Obliteration CT
Thurston-Mystery of His Political
Disappearance Arthur Pue Cor.
& man Re-enters-Luck Better Than
Riches-Republican Frauds.
Especial Washington letter.
Milford w. Howard, quondam repre-
sentative in congress from Alabama, q
few years ago achieved for himself q
vast notoriety and some money by
writing a book with the fetching title
''If Christ Came to Congressy' a book
which, whatever its literary merits,
caused considerable ruction in Wash
ington. William T. Stead of England
also wrote book entitled "If Christ
Came to Chicagow and raked in many
Of the dollars Of the daddies thereby.
Christ himself declared that he came
to call not the righteous, but sinners,
to repentance. He certainly would find
rich, large field for his labors in Chi
cago and would not be wholly without
material to work on should he come to
congress. However that may be, it is
positively announced that Dom Paul
Kruger is coming to America. The
people of this country-all true Ameri-
cans who believe in the great Declara-
ton and in the spirit and men of 1776-
will welcome him with open arms to
loving hearts. But Dom Paul will do
well to avoid the White House and the
departments at Washington. There he
will receive the cold shoulder, the mar
BILE heart the icy hand, the CONCEALED
stare. He will find this amazing para
dox-that while genuine America is
redhot for him official America is dead
against him and all his works. He
may be astonished, but nevertheless
he cannot change the facts. They are
stubborn things, especially the fact
that this administration is en- rapport
with ]. B. Indeed if Dom Paul will
apply to Colonel John Hay, secretary
of state, he will be furnished with z
neat little pamphlet issued by the state
department Of the United States Of
America-God save the mark-which
announces officially and somewhat pre-
maturely that the little South African
republics are dead and that they are
now provinces Of England.
A Disgraceful Document.
That pamphlet is the most disgrace
full document ever issued from anAmer-
lean brain or an American press. but it
should be ample warning to the brave
old Boer that he must keep off the pres
idential grass and that he is not want
ed In and about official Washington
official Washington, mark you-for II
he will stay away from the White
House and departments and associate
with the plain people of Washington
he will find tender hearts and true who
sympathize with him and with his
cause, Just as he will find them In ev-
cry corner Of this great republic, for
the plain people God bless them-are
still true to the principles of the Revo-
luton. Only official Washington is
false. Dom Paul will find as hearty q
reception by Lord Pauncefote at the
English legation itself as he will in any
Official place in Washington. It Is the
strangest tale in the entire history of
the country that John Bull should lay
such spell on our state department
as to cause 1t to negotiate and sign
the Hay-Pauncefote treaty, q complete
surrender Of American principles and
OF American rights. The only defense
for that disgrace Is to say that our dip
lomats were overreached lin other
words, to plead incompetency. As to
the official toadying to the English on
the Boer question, there Is no defense.
It Is untterly indefensible.
A Historic Pair.
When General Fred Funston and
General Aguinaldo faced each other.
captor and prisoner. the two most re.
markable characters developed by the
Philippine war were within the range
OF vision. OF course this does not In
clude those who. though fighting in
the Philippines. achieved imperishable
renown during the Spanish war. Fun.
ston Is one Of those men who do things
II he had served under the eye Of Ma.
9poleon, he would have been rewarded
with the grand cross Of the Legion Of
Honor v,arhana with the hat,n Of 4