The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-04-12
BRITISH POST IN THE UNITED
STATES.

at Chalmette, La, near New Orleans,
and that arms and munitions of war
are shipped in and out from the port
of New Orleans to South Africa, in
defiance of the neutrality laws and in
defiance of the rights of the Beers,
who are getting scant courtesy from
this government, though the people
are all with them.
Men are being impressed for serv-
ice, according to the newspaper re-
ports from that section by officers in
uniform, who, under guise of hiring
them to accompany shipments of
stock and supplies to Durham, coerce
American citizens into signing arti-
cles at South African ports, practic-
ally forcing them to enlist on pain
of refusal to allow them to go ashore
after the long sea voyage. These
things are positively asserted by men
who made the round trip without
landing and refused to forswear their
American citizenship.
Mr. Roosevelt has sent an aide to
Chalmette to investigate, and when
the report finally reaches his ear, the
British emissaries will have about
completed their nefarious schemes
and made this country a party to
their unrighteous warfare against
the brave Beers.
| Why, for less cause than this our
forefathers in 1912, then a weakling
nation, made war upon Great Britain
and wiped her off the seas, and this
robust giant, the greatest republic
of the world, is undergoing much
greater humiliation now than in the
early years of the last century, and
the president has sent colonel to
investigate the invasion of free
American soil by the agents of Great
Britain in defiance of international
law.
There are millions of pounds of
supplies being shipped to the British
army in the field from New Orleans
and a stop should have been put tC
it long ago. The Beers have had en-
voys bring the matter before Ameri
can authorities time and again, but
the delegation has never been per
mitted to reach the official ear Of
the president, because his great anC
good friend Edward of England
might not like any interference ant
probably would withdraw his invite
) to the coronation ceremony in man
| ner as he deprived Senator Ben Till
man of the honor of meeting H. R. H
: Dutch Henry.
5 How much of this the people vii
r stand is a problem Q. E. D., but
} patient people sometimes break out
Mr.. Hay, who sits upon the port
: folio of state, has been notified b.
t the governor of Louisiana of the eX
} tremes the British are riding and ha
+ used his influence to have the matte
f investigated, as noted above.
/, The governor holds that it is thu
function OF the national government
+ and not of the state, to force obed1
ence to the neutrality laws; yet,
a such duty belongs to the state wher
: the violation occurs, he would no
S hesitate to act as the law may wal
: rant, and asks the secretary of stat
). for his views.
J. The governor reports the arrival i
:, New Orleans of Sir Richard Campbe
l. Stuart, an aide of the British arm!
Y on a tour of inspection of the trans
J. port service in the vicinity of Ne'
e Orleans. He also incloses a numbe
n of newspaper clippings and STATE
s ments from individuals as to the OF
erations of the British remount SER
If ice, a transcript of the proceeding
r In court, and a number of letter
d from individuals protesting againE
d the continuation of the animal shil
c. ments The most important of thes
Ie probably is the affidavit of one Tou
If res, setting forth his engagement fl
a service on the transport Milwaukee
signing articles before the BIRTHS
u vice consul, being assigned to dut
i'd by Lieutenant Thompson of the we
b. many of the British army, and &C
r. ing under his orders, went to Cal
le Town, thence to Durham, where tt
rs horses were delivered to British of