New-York tribune., 1902-03-24
HOW HE FOUND PAPERS.
KRUEGER'S FORMER PASTOR DECLARES
DOCUMENTS SHOWED ENG
LISH PERFIDY.

LISH RERFIDY.
At meeting of the XIVth Congress District
committee of the American Society Of Freedom at
Columbus Hall No 124 West Sixtieth-st., last
night. the Rev Dr. II. D. Won Broekhuizen, OF
Pretoria, South Africa, made appeal for Amerl-
can sympathy FOR the Beers DR.. Won BroekhulZen
was the pastor of President Krtger's church, and
when the broke out shouldered gun and, un-
der General JOubert took part in the storming or
Dundee. 1t he who found the British papers
and maps which. he declares, prove that England
had been planning the several years before the
outbreak Of hostilities. He said in part:
remember our last meeting before, we went TO
the front After long discussion President Kruger
said, Dominic, close meeting with prayer
stay in the House Of Parliament and let others
must 90 his duty. With the cry of God with US
/ shouIdered my gun with my brethren. Genera 9 ti
led into battle. We gathered our horses and
Greatest Sop power G IN the woaid 1iI we s''
At Dundee we occupied the mountains and eX-
PeGted TO attack the enemy next morning, pqt -
had raned all night and there was thick mist INST
on ihursday ana Friday me ram cohuhGea 5Liu 5
we lay in the mud, wet to the skin. on Saturday
and few oJI Ug l0ln @ mSS fnI bir eG All
of a sudden the British fag-the white hag-was
holsted and We took possession Of the camp Nhat
tent we found silver spoons and cut glass. with
champagne and other luXuries. 1 thought this
that We had a good feed before we left. I found
| DOX Labelled private papers, ana broke II open.
Inc 9ocGmeniS ana maps we found lnSae ShoWfu Wf
The, English plars for marching on BIoemfonteln
! and roads. the positions Of forts. with the
( number of m men ard guns IN each both in the the
beautifully accurate maps ever saw. These docu,
that we did want war and that the English
were plotting our downfall long before the Jane
THE BoER GENERALS.
will tell you something of our generals. Gen
%etaI era Bo'ha Is thlrty-eight years old and STANDS
Of our Congress- and is now fghtng in the east
OF the Transvaal and doing his duty. His wife was
GENERAL Delarey is fl the west. He Is a typi-
hardy as horse He Viii 2 neTer 0at q never sabf m
His father and grandfather fought against the
lighters In cur country. and is splendid Christian.
OF his wife. How could they. when She has been
with VII! hin SonstaRty She is fty-four but remark
vas was Metheun who has now been disposed Of !
waG he be6 hopes He W come bach because ne al AL
! the Beers. We do not shoot Englishmen because
into The hands Of a, righteous God, and viii show
{ me 9 hnghSh & that they have come TO civiize u.s.
General De wet IS forty years old. and was al
came a lieutenant, rising rapidly from the ranks
ti HTI sffe ne oefnme ian general he beats kitchener @
or buttons, but he has something infinitely BETTER
would rather see my husband die than surrender"
cannot tell you how grateful for suffer-
sympathy for my people. The principles Of future
warfare are being laid down in South Africa to-day.
II Is my mother to-day; II will be yours tomorrow.
The Boer women dying at the OF four
enough to @ appeal to your heaTs 1oo 9t at To9r Er
own mothers wives and children, and think how
murdered We demand from You tf that ' you D sog
this bloody wa rfare on women and cbiIdyen We
ask you, then, to remain neutral, and allow US to
fight to the end. We will never submit while there
forget the jsmesoh nc rad and % Neck
and some of the other English outrages.
ALL THESE ARE FALsEHooDs.
The English say the war was started because
eigners had no franchises and because Of religious
restrictions. All these are falsehoods. The natives
say There was no Englishman who was willing to
0re Secome ms 9" 8en d e SG re Sgd not & s
| eminent has given ground for the establishment
ana other denominations. and there !: absoateiy no
| any trouble in the Transvaai If it had not been
| for the discovery OF the gold mines and diamond
| bert and another from his mother. testifying to
| the hardships Of the Boer women.
Western Starr, OF Chicago, made q fierce pro-
| Boer speech. IN which he asked why the United
| States had not declared sympathy for the Beers.
TT is not friendship" he said 'and It IS not fear
| The combined armies Of Europe could not make
| landing our coast If IT defended by our
| women alone armed with mops. The Beers are
| having precisely the same struggle now that We
had in the Revolution and for precisely the same
reasons If you once allow the precedent to become
| fixed that a free government may be DESTROYED for
a motive, any free government may be destroyed
in the future for the reason In 1875 the Brit
| ish did not send mules horses here, but Hes
| slams They gave money and titles for these Hes
| sian soldiers, and they have paid $25 100000 TO
America for mules and horses There is no differ
ence between Hessians and mules. Both are con-
| traband Of war declared 81 by the treaty Of ma
tons. This being, this creature, Chamberlain
lcheers) who betrayed his political sire his pa rty
| his people and brought his Queen with gray hairs
| in sorrow to the grave. said there a gentle
! mems agreement between the American people and
Great Britain whereby were to refrain from
| pressing sympathy for the Beers. He lies! He
lies! "a chorus from the audience: He lies,O Grea'
| Britain will never subjugate the Beers. The wild
Boer of South Africa has ripped cash in the lions
1 flesh that will heal
| About four hundred men women and children at
presided Before the meeting adjourned resolutions
were adopted calling upon Congress to express by
resolution its sympathy for the Beers.