Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1902-05-02
WILL THE BRr cAL BROOKS BE
ALLOWED To AK IGH OUT

Generals in the United States Army
have recently given utterance to some
infamous sentiments, which were not
only un.Americsn, but positively In.
human.
The most shameless speech yet made
Ey an of%aess7 0i .h5 Units! States Army
was that Of MsIor.G General Brooke, Com.
mander Of the Department Of the East.
delivered in New York on Wednesday
night at the banquet OF the St Georges
Society. 1t seems to be the fad among
n certain clique in the Army and Navy
to be as un-American and US pro-British
ns possible. And certainly Brooke fol.
lowed the fad to the top Of his bent. He
not only justified the infamous cruelties
perpetrated by American troops in the
Philippines, but he said:
'Our Eoglish friends know what the
war IN South Africa meane. Ii Is time
the American people knew what the war
IN the Philippines means.
81 don't wish to draw comparisons be-
tween the two peoples we are fightlnR;
the effect Of victory will be the same
the progress Of civilization, the en-
l~ghtenment OF the Nations and the
glory OF the flag.
Sin South Africa Kitchener has been
left to sweep up those dreadful people
who are spread out over the country in
small attachments. In the Philippines
Chafee has something Of the same
difficult task"
No man who has retained one iota Of
the spirit OF the American forefathers
would for one instant think OF having
the United States follow in the Philip
pines the infamies OF Great Britain in
the Boer land. And yet this Major.
General in tho United States Army not
only condemns the cruelties perpetrat-
ed by American troops in the Philip
pines. but commends the course OF Kit
chener in South Africa.
Those dreadful people Of whom he
speaks are rs devoted a band Of patriots
as any this or any other country has
ever seen, fighting against greater op.
preston and more damnable ipfamies
than were inflicted upon the original
Thirteen Colonies.
II Maori General Brooke had any re.
gard whatever for tho principles for
which the Continental Army suffered at
Valley Forge, he would not glory IN the
Infamous rape OF Liberty in South
Africa and would never hope that the
United States would follow in the
bloody footsteps OF an international
thief, and an ACKNOWLEDGMENT MUIR
derer.
Army and Navy officers have recently
been reprimanded for expressing
sympathy with the Beers, tho Admins.
tration holding it is not the province OF
officers in either service to publicly
discuss such matters. Those who we're
shut up, however, we're Boer eympa.
thizers.
Lot us see now what will be done
with this brutal Brooke. who applauds
the heilIsh deeds Of the savage Kitch.
ener, and whoa citizen OF a Republic
which claims to no dedicated to the
doctrine OF rights ,"d liberties of all
mankind-publicly pinns a cause
opposed to every pr. . set forth in
the Declaration OF ] .cpendencc. and
applatuds the bloody determination Of u
people as good. as patriotic, and as true
as any who fought for our Flag at any
period OF our history-a people who are
battling for n cause as sacred in the
oyes OF God as that Tor which Washing.
ton took up the sword, or that for which
Lincoln laid down his Life.-Sacramento
Bee.