The Nome nugget., 1902-03-29
SOME CRIMES Or CIVILIZATION.


 Transvaal are still maintaining desultory struggle &ar their national existence. The same dispatches that tell us of the vain but gallant fight which is being made by handful of patriotic people, also state that Boer brigades, under Boer command CTS, are being organized to fight their own brethren that the war may be sooner ended. We dislike to be- leve this. IL scarcely possible that a remnant of gallant people after enduring the trials and horrors of war for three years should be willing to turn their guns upoN those of their flesh, that a war may 6e ended The statement is so astounding that few will believe it. Even the un- couha savage Filipino has not proven himself an apt soldier in the field jungle under the mand of American officers But expect little of the savage and much of the Christian, and therein perhaps Great Britain has used native to fight native in many lands and she employed the red Indian to fight forefahers in revolutionary days, but we know of but few instances in the history of wsrthat remnant of q nation has been employed to exterminaeits fellows But this is the claim made hy the British in South Africa. We hope that it is not true. It is than fratrcidal warfare such IS cursed our own country not so very many years ago. Fratricide and treason, the meanest and lowest of crimes is directly chargeabe to those Boers who have laid down their own weapons and have taken up those of nation which has attempted to utterly destroy them. These deuded people are worse than the veres Hessian, soldier of fortune who followed in times long since passed wars alarms, for the sake of the pay and the spells that brought.
 War is terrible trade, but in the cause that is righteous sweet is the smell of powder but the killing of men simply under the name of war is the fouest blot upon humanity today We read and hear much of the usages of civilized warfare and the arming of brcther to kill brother have foremost place in wars bloody decalogue. The term " civilized war fare is a misnomer and the fact remains that we have made but little progress in the pathway of gen. uine civilization long find better substitute for the settling of international disputes than by the brutal murder of one another Nations are typical only of the individuals who compose them They represent higher order of ofntelligence than is found generally among the rasses. although it is customary to judge nations greatness and the intellectual ability of people by the who for the time being happen to be its "guidng hand and dominant spirit" As genera proposition it may De stated that the nation which refuses powerful arb traton is responsible for the which ensues This is the case in the war of extermination which the British waging against remnant of the people who once constituted little South African republic Great Britain refused to arbitrate and at her door lies the shame of the exermination of bertylovng law abiding. Christian people. And while we are criticzing Great Britain it may not be amss for us to remember that ourselves engaged in shoot ing down Christian and pagan people in the Philip pines, who seem to believe in the declaration of inde- pendance though perhaps they do not understand it's significance as fully do ourselves who have had immeasurably superior advantages. After cen- turies of socaled civilization the spirit of bloodshed and conquest is still strong upon Our civilization seems to teach us that the people and muss have the uttermost parts of the earth for nher itance; that the uncviized must be civilized yea though they perish utterly duringt process With us it seems to be case of the survival of the test Perhaps in the economy of great and benefcent nature it has been thus provided, but if so, We still vee through glass darkly. Great Britain in South Africa exterminating the Boers the United States in