Sunday Washington globe., 1902-04-20

The editor of the GLOBE had a sidewalk
chat with General Pearson of the Boer
army a week ago in front of the Postal
Telegraph Office on the Avenue. Intro
duced by Col Charlie Edwards, Secretary
of the Democratic Congressional Commit
tee, and who knows everybody from Texas
10 Washington worth knowing the Boer
general opened his bosom and talked I'M
reservedly to sympathetic ears. Said Cen
eral Pearson:
The greatest difficulty encounter is of
a financial character I am hamstrung in
my operations owing to lack of funds.
Only yesterday I received a cable, no
money. can fight alright like all other
Beers, but l cannot beg. 1 would willingly
exchange places in the field with anyone Of
my compatriots In fact envy them their
more congeuial tasks of chasing the Eng
lish."
To change the current of the distressing
hduciary revelations of the general, we
asked.
Were you born in South Africa2"
'Yes--I am an Africander of Danish
descent"
You are not of Dutch descent then?"
Very few Beers are" surprisingly re-
sponded the general.
II am amused" he continued, 'at the
vast amount of misiuformaion have found
in this country touching this and other
phases of the Boer question. In the first
place not less than seven-teuths of the
Beers are of French descent and about three
tenths Dutch and other nationalties All Of
the generals as you will perceive, have
French names, and the rank aud file main
tains almost an equal preronderance of
French blood. OF course, some of il is
mixed with Dutch and other races but the
majority is essentially French. You Amer
leans take your information of the rest Of
the world from the most stupendous and
gigantic liars in the world-the English.
In fact, il has gotten to be an accepted
AXIOM among the Beers that an English
speaking person must lie or croke. It is
necessary to his existence to lie aud lie all
day as we'll as all night. and the general
smiled at his uuintentiOnal pun.
Did you know the late Cecil Rhodesl"
the general was asked.
Yes. AT one time in his career Rhodes
was our leader He was the most pro-
Africander in South Africa, He had the
entire confidence of our people because of
his hostility to British imperialistic designs.
Indeed Rhodes was placed at the kead and
formed his cabinet along anti British lines"
How and whence came the changer"
Well, Rhodes had scheme which the
Beers considered Standardization, aud we
separated on that ground. His idea was an
African Federation in which we would be
states and subordinate or co-equal with the
others, and of which Rhodes was to be
president and dictator, or as you Americans
comprehensively express IT, the whole
sizing"
Have the British killed as many Beers
as their dispatches indicate2"
The general laughed outright, as he re-
piled in as broad an English accent as
Liverpool merchant;
There is where their bloody lying. you
know, comes in. If your country had not
fought US there would not be an English
soldier outside the Cape"
you mean the New Orleans and Missouri
camps2"
Yes, and the recruiting permitted or
winked at in not only these places, but in
the Philippines by your now masters, the
military satraps."
The general spoke bitterly for some time
on the sympathetic as we'll as practical
assistance of our military, aud even naval
ofdcers with the English, and again to
change the current of his thoughts we
asked
Have you met our Secretary of State,
Hon. John Haye"
No, have never had a personal inter-
view with Mr.. Hay, nor with Secretary
Chamberlain, but / know the men pretty
thoroughly, and, to be frank with you,
can sed no difference whatever in not only
the sympathies but the actions, Of both
these gentlemen. We Beers recognize
them as cold -blooded, deadly enemies OF
our cause and our children's children will
remember their names, " and the generals
lips closed tightly while his eyes flashed a
suppressed indignation or hatred Re-
suming after awile the conversation, he
said, among other things:
This talk about peace will amount to
nothing in the end. The last Boer must
die before England will be acknowledged
master in the two repabhcs
Her cruelties towards our women and
children and her barbarous system of war
fare on these innocent uoncombatauts will
never be forgiven or forgotten. Generation
after generation of Beers will transmit the
story and il will be repeated with England's
final requiem when the Beers drive them
into the sea, as they will ultimately do, de-
spite the aid Of so.called republics.
1--WE Beers were as prosperous and as
wealthy as you average Americans, but
neither prosperity nor wealth weaned US
from the love of liberty or made us forget
its holy cause We have risked and sacri-