The Saint Paul globe., 1902-05-11
BOY WRITES WAR HISTORY.
Only Eight Years Old, but Is a BOer
SympathiZer.

The latest author to take up cudgels for
the Boers is Allen Welsh Dalles, of this
city. He is the eight-year-old grandson
OF John w. Foster, former secretary of
state and a noted diplomat and authority
on international law. The book sells for
so cents, and there are no complimentary
or reviewers copies.
Mr.. Foster had it printed. He stipulated
to the printer that copy must must be
followed absolutely, consequently the
book appears with all the eight-year-old
authors eccentricities of style, spelling
grammar and selection of topics. Chapter
one deals with the "BoerS and British
in South Africa The author starts out
by telling how the Beers took the land
from the Indians in 1852.
The author then speaks of the British
sending 'trupes'' to South Africa and
of trouble with the Dutch and makes
this sage conclusion: |'There would not
be any quarrelling if it was not for the
gold. 1t was not right for the British
to come in and get the land because the
Beers came first and they had the first
right to it. If Britain had got there first
then they could have had it and It looks
now as if the Beers were being driven
out of the land. 1t is not because there
is not enough room on the earth for
there is room for everybody to be COM
Portable, but the reason is that every
nation wants more land than each other
even if they haven't enough people to
cover the space"
Chapter two is entitled "The First
sticks consistently to his spelling of
troops as "trupes, and mentions Lord
Kitchner' as "Chief STAFF He gives
some articles about the fighting, and
then says: THE British did not know
at first that the Beers were going to be
so hard to conquer, or they would not
have started the war, but now they have
started they think that they can't sur
render to such a little country"
He says. in concluding his second chap
ter; In the beginning of November the
Bfltlsh thought the end of the war was
in sight. On September IL Mr. Kruger
went to Delagoa Bay and took a Dutch
Warship and left his country for Europe
After Mr. Kruger left them the Beers
have been trying to cut the railways and
cut the telegraphs down. and so the first
year of the fighting ended"
The third chapter is headed "The Farm
Burning The author says: The Brit
1Sh found that If they could not light the
Beers out of their land that they would
burn them out. so they began to burn the
land, but they could not burn the houses
and have the poor women and children
starve to ceath, so they had to huddle
them together in camps and tried to feed
them as Well as they could so they could
get the land.
"Once when Botha attacked Lord Rob
erts he and his soldiers went and hid be-
hind the concentration camps for safety.
and the Beers, in trying to kill the Brit
;5 ISh, killed eleven of the Boer women
That shows how unmanly and cowardiv
the British are trying to conquer the
Beers.
One day the British tied ten billy goats
TO Try the aHect of some lidight shells,
and SO he fired twenty at them and then
went TO see how many were left. and
born. 'oi
that INA there were only 1900 Beers. and
this year he reported the Boer total loss
es are $4,000 in the last year. That shoyrs
that kltcheneEs arithmetic is bad
chapter six concerns '.Emportnent or
Horses to South Africa 2 -
N1urlng the latter part of the war tfaa
Ameerlcans a. e have been emporting horses
to South Africa for the British to rse
think that England is big enough r.
ger ner own horses. and if not, she ought
not to have started the war The en-
9o,d gorlnent en- & OF horses to South Africa is not
Done by the government, but by privaIe
peopie 1or the reason the government
cannot stop it, II
The authors conclusions on the whole
matter are these: "Some people think
that the Beers treated the Zulus 60
badly but the Beers had to fight them a.
they would be tortured. If the gold rnina
in johannesburg failed the British wo,,Id
soon get tired Of fighting and 60 back to
England. The Beers want neaca hI,t
England has to have the gold, and so She
soes around lighting all the little coun-
tries, D1t she never dares to fight eitba,
China or Russia
All this talk about the Beers having
slaves is not true. know the RoarS
have rot had any slaves since 1SsS he.
cause g Boer captain told -me. SO. Amer
lea cannot say anything about tba
slavery, for the Americans let men have
slaves in the Philippines now. Do
nope that the Boers will win for the
boers are IN the right and the British
are in the wrong in the war