The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-07-16
rHp rrEpnouNTAN AND COLORADO CATHOLIC:

ton such as no other Englishman has had III the
United States or in any other country
"Sir, wiRnot stay to ask whether you were an
thorized thus to speak in the name of the country
of which you arc the accredited representative
That is a matter which rests between YOU and those
whom you represent. | am concerned ouly with the
fact that these words were spoken in England by
a foreign ambassador.
You cannot but be aware that the mere mention
% f[ord Roberts name brings blush to the cheek
OF thousands OF the best men and the best women
of this country What is this fame which has filled
three continent5-this glory, of which you desire
share! 1t IS the fame Of the davastator the glory
of the who deliberately set himself to destroy
al the works of peace III a vast territory. Not as
a painful necessity Of warfare, but Of fixed pur-
pose. Lord Roberts destroyed thousands ct farm
stcads, burnt schoolhouscs, cut down fruit trees
trampled crops into the earth, broke down irriga-
ton dams, destroyed sheep, cattle, the very nipple
ments of husbandry. Two Of your fellow country
men, Messrs. Putnam and Van Der Weyde have
energeticary protested against the imputation that
precedent for this destruction could be found in
the deeds wrought in your civil war.
But this is not all. Unable to conquer the men
who, like your brave forefahcrs in the war of indie
pendence fighting for their freedom Lord
Roberts made war on their women and children
Six years ago-onlv six years from now-Presdcnt
Mckinley addressed to congress a celebrated mes
sage He denounced the methods adopted by Gen
eral Weyler III his war on the Cubans "Reconcen-
tration, adopted avowedly as a war measure to cut
off the resources of the insurgents worked its pre-
destined result. 1t was determination The only
= IL Il
and the grave With what sincerity, or want of
sincerity, you can judge better than l. he declared
that the adoption of these methods left to the Unit
ed States no choice but to intervene in the sacred
names of humanity and civilization The war in
Cuba he declared, must stop Lord Roberts bet
tered the instruction of General Weyler; the graves
of more than $4,000 children testify to his success
Il will not dwell on Lord Roberts earlier career
have not to tell here of his deeds in Afghanstan
where he carried fire and slaughter into unresisting
villages. 1t is not those exploits that have caused
you to PROSTATE yourself and your country before
him. ell killed two republics, ruined vast land
and instituted his foul camps in which these thou
sands of children were done to death 1t is those
deeds which have carried his fame through three
continents; it is for those deeds that you invite
him to the Atlantic to receive the homage of
America.
Sir with grief [ say it, you need not to have
left your country to find fitting subjects of your
eulogies. You have at home soldiers whose fame
has filled the world-thc practicers of the water
cure, the general who gave orders to shoot every
thing over ten in word, the butcher of the Fill
plnos. Go back to your country and there wor-
ship at the shrine of militarism-a militarism
which has revived the methods and the infamies of
the sixteenth century In your own country preach
the gospel of fire. sword, slaughter famine desola-
ton, the murder of innocents. The area of the
United States is wide enough; be content with it.
There you will be within your rights Here we do
not need your aid. AN ENGLISHMAN"