The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-01-18

way. The various streets were
thronged with two streams of people,
I one pushing to the theatre and the
other coming away disappointed
1t was a most appreciative audience.
Mr.. Davis spoke for two hours. and
was necessarily interrupted with ap-
plause, cheers and laughter Only once
/ was there an attempt to take issue
with him. That was when he exhi-
bited to the audience four small chill
! dren, born in johannesburg and now
! living in Denver, and said that the
British are starving to death hundreds
/ just like them in South Africa. Some
man in the audience shouted that it
was not So In an instant half
hundred men and women were on their
feet trying TO locate the man, While
others cried:
Put him out" Put him OUT"
Mr.. Davis said he preferred that
those who did not agree with him
should remain and hear a few facts.
Mr.. Davis has some physical resem-
blance to William J. Bryan, and though
his oratory is of different style, he
has the ability to move his audience
to tears, and to convulse it will laugh
ter By his witticismss
At one time during the course of his
address, when he recounted the scenes
attendant upon the battle of Spion Kop
and the death of grandson of Presi-
dent Paul Kruger Mr.. Davis had al
most every woman and many men in
tears. And few minutes later he had
the audience cheering wildly when he
held aloft a small Boer flag which
had led the Beers on to capture the
crest of Spion kop and win that IA
nous battle.
There was a slight delay in introdu-
cling Mr.. Davis, while the scene shift
ers made it possible for those who
could crowd upon the stage to occupy
every position of vantage.
Mr.. Davis was accompanied on the
stage by T. ]. O'Donnell, former Gov
ernor Charles S. Thomas and Lieuten-
ant Governor D. c. Coates.
After calling the meeting to order
Mr.. 7. J. O'Donnell. who acted as
chairman, said the crowded house was
a testimony to the fact that the hearts
OF all American people have not been |
dulled into insensibility toward the |
throbs Of liberty. He said that when |
ever a blow is struck for freedom the |
great heart of the American people /
feelingly responded. He did not think |
that a certain cartoon published re-
Gently in a local paper reflects ,he
sentiments of the people living in the
shadow of these mountains; that the
feelings, hearts and sy,npathies Of the
same people were with the struggling
bands of Beers who were lighting for
liberty, country and home.
Mrs. Beddy, a sister of General Hert-
zog. who is now fighting in South
Africa, sang the Boer national anthem
With effect.
A storm of applause greeted the bit
II sentimentality of Chairman O'DOn-
lell when he said: "A land that can
produce such a woman and such d
song ought to be free
At the conclusion of the meeting the
GLOWING were adopted by 4 Standing
-ote:
Whereas, The object of the universal
,eace conference, assembled at The
{ague, Netherlands. in 1899, vas to
romote the maintenance of general I
eace and the establishment Of friend t
V offices and mediation among the {
atfons Of the world; and {
Whereas, In the opinion Of those {
ere assembled, the present condition !
f affairs in the South African repub-
C and the Orange Free State calls !
Or similar expression of friendly {
hfces and mediation" of our people |
trough their government; and \
Whereas, The United States, ever q
nee the dUOpl4Oi VI IliG 1COAelA oAlIOil 1
{ independence, has been the Sympa-
letic friend of oppressed nations c
the world having freely h
isplayed it's sympathy for France in s
re days of the first republic, for t
reece in her struggle for indepen- c
ence, for Hungary, for Poland, for t
Iexico. for the South American repub- b
cs for Armenia and for Cuba, and e
as repeatedly expressed such sym il
3thy through resolutions passed by s
le congress of the United States, and p
lere is no intention on our part to il
lggest any action by the congress that C
,uld be construed as internationally b
an unfriendly character, or as go a
& beyond the limits heretofore OBJ g
rived in former resolutions;
Now, therefore. we. citizens of Colo p
do, in mass meeting assembled, here e.
request our representatives in con- b
'ess and the senators from this state n
congress assembled to advocate and .;
stain by their votes the passage in II
of the following resolution. CO
a resolution of like import, to wit: ST
Resolved, by the senate and house &c
representatives of the United States Ell
America in congress assembled, &C