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LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, JULY 4, 1901.
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WALL STREET FIHATES
If mm TVry lt.j tlaak aa4 la fisted tn
LrrM With Crtlfi4 C kecks Cl.aa
to Vmtmrn. VTUm II 4 Deposits
' Tie fc4'owir.: U the dispatch that
attsojaced to the world that a receiver
Lad be-en i point 4 for the Seventh
Nat :or. 5.1 Lack of New York:
Nw York. Jure 27. The Seventh
National tank of this city closed it
!oor today.
Comptroller of th Currency Daves
crtierrd National Iit.k Examiner For-r-t
Iteynor to take charre of the
task a temporary recejrer.
So other court was left to Comp
troller DaH.
Th L'sJitd "t?-! tasking law or
drs hit it.y nit;c.-.l back whose
C?ers cert.fy a cheek for aa amount
exceeding t:. i!po;t la the tank of
the pron, rorspany cr corporation.
shtll ro tE'O t".e hands of a receiver.
Oa Wedr,edy Comptroller Dawes
aa lRfonsa4 f the nature of the
coJlatr: oa which the brokerage
Jirra i f Hry Mrtjaand it Co. of thla
city t3 borrowed! about $1.C00,00
frcrn the Ser:th National bank,
The otptro:r. s ia law tound.
jrc?:;;r!y wired to C R. Thomas, aon
of General Sara Thomai. that day
JectM president of the Seventh Na
tiftPa! bask la place of WlKiara If.
"I fcav Jutt received Information
from the national Lank examiner that
Henry MarcQar.4 & Co. have loana of
a large a mount oa your lank, approxl
cati&g SI.Ki,t). Tnles promptly
ar4 satisfactory tunrrd that thla loan
will hm takt a and cash therefor
put Into the bask by Saturday night.
Jane 2'. I will appoint a receiver for
th touik. Iiae convene your board
of directors and aaaotsc.ce thla to
theta."
At the moment of the reSpt of this
te!rrans. or very" soon afterward, the
orli f the Seventh National and
the t.'rr tit the cl aricjr house con
cluded that the hank had best close.
At.4 closed It and guarded for
a ti. No one hi admitted to It. I
or. a It u i ;t t y Frederick D.
Tappea. cnairrsasj ox tr.e clearing
toii cozcettttee:
The president of the bask. Mr.
TS-osia. and Mr. 11 win Gould, ac
ciB:paxiied ly Mr. William Nelson
Crorstli. thir counsel, came before
the coTcniitfre and rated that In view
of ti.e larre dt;t ba'asce and other
circle: rtanc- cr;i.-ct-l with the af
fair of the Lank, it had ln deemed
ftdiatle by the trd to tffiporarily
7-n1 i aj n;-r.!.
Tter i a jwwsittlity that th
parts nt of justice E.ay play a
lu the t-AZZ railure.
The detali1 report of the corr.pt rol
ler of the currency 1 awaited that the
depart m-nt f )atice may determine
hetrT there i ir round for the pro&n
cntitfS of is; jar tonjil d with the
a?J!r.
At the traury department it is
at"! that oer-c-rtifyins checks Is
clearly in v iolatioa of the national
bnkin laws.
lhat w iot all of the dispatch. It
went to ay that the suspension was
0- !y IeK:pcrxry and that the deposi
tors wo-iid be paid in full. No report
of a loctedi and broken bank sent out
by the Aciated press ever fa' led
to CJx?ion the fart that the deposl
ters ou'd be paid !a full. The dis
patch aio stated that there was no
rlcina!ity about the gret loan to
th Wall street brokers. Henry Mar-rian-!
Co. It was only bad judg
ment. Th report would not have
1- - a of the stereotyped kind if it bad
emitted to mention that. The loan
to the rokr aa made on bonds of a
rai'rjiai nt yet built somewhere
down in Fennrylvania. The truth
about the matter probably Is that the
directors if the bank formed another
crrpany and undertook to build a
railroad, that they ieu-d bonds for
twee cr thre- titae as much as the
road would cot and then took their
oma bonds which were not quotable
n the tock exrh.tn.e for security for
Xl.V&frjtt of the raoney that confiding
dr pot! tors Lad entrusted to their
keepicc. An oil stove la which a fire
is likely to be kfndled fet any lime is
a safety vault la comparison to a
hank Lke this Wall street concern.
For dsys before this loan was made to
Marjuand & Co. it waa knows that
that istx had b a kiting checks to
keep their heads above water, and the
president of the Seventh National
Laaded over to them fl,a0.Xo of the
ixtoney that depositors had left with
hira. Thre is nothing criminal about
that- He u a financier. He Is the
rt of a man that the mullet heads
of retraaka w'ouid Kive the power to
control th money and financial legis
lation cf TCMKi.t of pep.
Subeiuet dispatches announce
that If the government undertook to
p'oecttte ail the banks that had been
r.ga-d la l'-ir.g certified checks to
je-fons who tad no deposSta that the
whole banking fraternity of New York
would have to be ent to the peniten
tiary for every bank la the city had
done it and that It was every day
practice looked upon as a loan. How
many millions of these certified checks
are out nobody knows, but from tne
moet recent reports it seems that they
are scattered all over the United Stat
es. Western bankers and business
men wosli better "look a little sharp"
ha toy of these lnstrumenta come
Into their hands. A certified check
of a New Tork baak has behind It Just
the tame sort cf stuff that made the
mild cat hank money of the fifties
acme hat totorous.
h'3 Mere Rosa
The editor of the Ithaca Journal
turns frost the reading of President
ifcKlnley's statement regarding a
third terra, to the pensaal of the col
mss el Th Ccssuraer, as4 his agUs-
t'oa knows no bounds, as he piously
exclaims:
"It gives opportunity for the peo
ple to compare the words of William
Jennings Bryan, who wculd be presi
dent, and William li'cKInley, who ia
president. It gives opportunity to put
the weak, insane, silly, untruthful va
porizing of this Nebraska populist
alongside of the manly, dignified, pa
triotic and thoroughly American
words of the man who above all other
men who live today deserve and has
the love and respect and the confidence
of the people of the United States of
America. Look at this picture and
then look at that, and thank God that
in His mercy and wisdom He did not
punish this republic by permitting the
election to its presidency of a man af
ter the fashion of th present pop
ulistic leader of the democratic party."
New York insane aajlums are very
large, but it Is said that they are all
over-crowded. That accounts for the
editor of the Ithaca Journal still be
ing allowed to run at large.
COUNTING TIES
That I What a Good Msny Bsllroad Su
perintendents and UfBco Men 'Will
t Ilolng; Pretty Soon
A good many of the unthinking par
asites of the railroad corporations will
soon have a lesson that they will re
member during the remainder of their
lives. Many of them have sold their
souls to these gods of commerce who
will without the least compunction
now be cast adrift, although they have
spent their lives In the most abject
slavery to the Interests of the corpora
tions. When they come down the road
for a back door hand-out treat them
kindly. They are no earthly good to
anything but a corporation and now
that the corporations have sent them
adrift, they will be added to innumer
able throngs of men out of work. They
cannot harness a horse or hold a plow.
They don't know a pumpkin seed from
a celery plant and they are too old
to learn. The farmer will have to sup
port them as he supports tens of thou
sands of other non-producers.
There is a persistent rumor to the
effect that the accounting officers of
the Union Pacific, Southern Pacific,
Oregon Railway and Navigation com
pany and the Oregon Short Line are to
Im consolidated.
It is generally believed that some im
portant changes are about to be made
in the ryounting department of the
Southern Pacific Railroad company.
Several officials In the auditing depart
ment of the service have received no
tices requesting their immediate ap
xance at Omaha. What the out
wtne of tlieir trip will K hard to
say, but the close affiliation of the Un
ion and Southern Paciflo roads seems
to point to the fact that there will be
a consolidation of the Union and
Southern Pacific accounting depart
menta. There might be some satisfaction in
this cashiering of thousands of rail
road men If the saving in their salaries
would go toward the lowering of
rates. Hut nothing of the kind will
result. The money that these men
have received and spent in the support
of their families will now go to swell
the millions of the communists who
have effected the recent combinations.
Instead of lowering rates, the mag
nates are constantly raising them by
means of reclassification. Pretty soon
sand and f tone will be put in the first
claes. If things keep on as they have
been for the last three months. Mer
chants declare that by means of this
reclassification the rates on goods have
been raised from 30 to 50 per cent. On
with the dance. Let the grabbers grab
it all and then see what will happen,
ENGLISH IMPERIALISM
J Cbamberlala Comes Down on Cap
Coloajr sn4 Iprlees Thera of all
KJfhta will KaloTnemasCcar
From Now oa
Joe Chamberlain has at last found
out that Olive Schriner told him the
truth about the people of Cape Colony.
The prospect now is that the whole of
South Africa will join in an endeavor
to once more establish free govern
ment. There are already some five or
six thousand residents of Cape Col
ony in the Boer army and more are
fleing across the border to Join Dewet,
while every raid he makes into British
territory adds new recruits to his
forces. The London Daily News says:
"From the night of June SO, for an
indefinite period, the king's subjects
In Cape Colony will be deprived of the
protection of law and will be governed
contrary to its express provisions.
Taxes will be applied under warrant
of the governor without appropriation
by parliament, which has been pro
rogued until August 27, and is not
likely to sit even then.
"This illegal method has been re
sorted to by the government and min
istry, doubtless at the Instigation of
Lord Mllner and Colonial Secretary
Chamberlain. In a word, the imperial
government has abrogated every ar
ticle of the compact under which a free
people owes allegiance to its rulers.
Liberty Is dead.
"The crisis calls for the authorita
tive intervention of the liberal party.
In which there Is a feeling in favor of
summoning a great popular confer
ence to consider the situation."
There can be no possible doubt that
this action of the British government
will arouse rebellion all over Cape Col
ony where the Dutch outnumber the
English more than two to one. If the
lines of railroad are held in that col
ony it will take 100,000 more British
troops to do It than they now have In
that country. The cost will become so
great that there will be many thou
sand more liberals In England than
there have been. As the News says,
this 1s the opportunity for the liberal
party. . - .. .
HONEST MONEY RASCALS
The Opinion of Western Bankara Concern
in jr the Issue of Certified Checks .
"ji hera There Ware no
Deposits
When the - news first reached Lin
coln that the New York clearing house
banks had been in the habit of issu
ing certified checks to persons who
had no deposits, the bankers here
would not credit the dispatch. They
said that it was impossible that any
reputable banker would be 'caught
mixed up in any such criminal affair.
When the news was confirmed they did
not know what to say. Those who had
taken the advice of The Independent
not to deposit their reserves in New
York banks were perfectly easy in
their minds for they said those New
York banks haven't any of our money,
but the other fellows who thought all
financial wisdom was located in Wall
street were not so happy.
How much damage this practice -will
do no one at present can tell. Another
one of the ' row of cards has gone
down. The Niagara bank of Buffalo
has gone down owing its depositors a
million dollars. Up to this time no
news has come of the cause of the fail
ure, but it is probable that it has been
engaged in the same business of issu
ing certified checks where it had no
deposits back of them.
The following correspondence in re-:
gard to how Lincoln bankers look
upon this mode of Wall street finan
ciering will show what Lincoln bank
ers think of it:
Lincoln, Neb., July 3, 1901. Dr. P.
L. Hall, Cashier Columbia National
Bank. Dear Sir: The Independent
has been astonished beyond measure
at the news from New York, which is
to the effect that all the banks there
are in the habit of issuing certified
checks to persons who have no de
posits. It appears to it that this is not
only a crime, but in effect an inflation
of the currency, for these checks do
the duty of money, and back of them
there is no security, no assets nothing
but wind. The Independent believes
it to be worse than the wild-cat bank
ing of the fifties and must end in the
destruction of all confidence in the
banking Institutions that have en
gaged in it. Recognizing your long
and successful career as a banker and
your reputation as an economist, The
Independent would like an expression
from you on the subject. Yours truly,
EDITOR NEB. INDEPENDENT.
Columbia National Bank, Lincoln,
Neb., July 2, 1901. Editor Indepen
dent, Lincoln, Neb. Dear Sir: I
know of no more complete answer to
your letter of even date than is given
in sec. 5208 of the National Banking
Act, which reads as follows:
"It shall be unlawful for any officer,
clerk or agent of any national banking
association to certify any check drawn
uopn the association, unless the person
or company drawing the check has on
deposit with the association at the
time such check is certified an amount
of money equal tb the amount specified
in such check.
"Any check so certified by duly au
thorized officers shall be a good and
valid obligation against the associa
tion; but the act of any officer, clerk
or agent of any association in viola
tion of this section shall subject such
bank to the liabilities and proceedings,
on the part of the comptroller as pro
vided for in sec. 5234."
Sec. 5234 referred to provides for the
taking possession of the bank by the
comptroller, the appointment of a re
ceiver, etc.
In view of the plain provisions of
the Banking Act interdicting the cer
tification of checks where no deposit
is held to protect them, any individ
ual opinion would be superfluous. Re
spectfully, P. L. HALL. .
Where are Those Mules?
About 250,000 horses and mules have
been purchased by the British govern
ment in the southwestern part of the
United States for use in the Transvaal
during the war against the Boers.
Traders who have dealt with the Eng
lish army officers who have been sent
to this country for the purpose declare
that the cost to England per span of
mules delivered in South Africa is
more than $400. The British are still
In the market for good animals.
When it is considered that they
have purchased a quarter of a million
of mules in this part of teh world
alone, the question is asked: "What
has become of them?"
The average life of a horse, in South
Africa is about nine days. Soon after
the outbreak of hosilities against the
crown a good, sturdy animal would
live through two weeks' service as the
bearer of an English cavalryman. His
life has now been shortened, because
the fields are bare of grass, and when
the cavalryman gets a new mount he
ride3 it until it is weakened by starva
tion and then a bullet ends its life.
The Texas horses and mules have
given better service than any secured
by the British officers.
MORE MONEY
It Is Pouring Out of the Gold Mines In all
Parts of tha World at a Rata Nerar .
Known Befora
v
The revised estimates of the New
York Engineering and Mining Jour
nal on gold and sliver production in
1900 appeared in the Issue of that pa
per for Saturday last. In the opinion
of the mining public they are quite as
accurate as the estimates of the fed
eral mint bureau, and have the merit
of appearing at least five months ear
lier each year, the mint report being
held back until congress assembles in
December,-
For the United States alone the gold
production in 1900 was 3,871,310 fine
ounces, worth, at $20.67 per ounce,
178,159,764. Refineries in this country,
together with the federal asay offices
at Seattle and San Francisco, handled
1,948,519 ounces of other, gold mainly
from Alaska" and Mexico which was
valued at $40,275,888, making. the to
tal for our refineries and mints equal
$118,435,562. This compares with a
grand total of $99,518,712 in 1899, $87,
107,390 in 1898 and $71,302,394 in 1897.
The total gain In 1900 over the out
put of 1897 was no less than $18,948,
879, or over 32 per cent. In the order
of production Colorado again stands
first, with the substantial increase of
$2,253,361 over 1899, while California
takes again the second rank and shows
a gain of $550,000. Alaska, South Da
kota, Montana and Utah follow in the
order named.- Utah has shown in re
cent years a notable advance in gold
output, the gain in 1900, as compared
with 1897, having been $2,294,162. No
other state or territory, with the ex
ception of Alaska; has shown so large
a proportional gain. While the in
crease -in gold production was very
generally distributed, the larger con
tributions ; were from Cripple Creek
and Leadville in 'Colorado, and from
Alaska, the latter gain having been
due to the Nome region and the Amer
ican Yukon. V;?
The Colorado total for 1900 is placed
at $28,762,036, compared with $26,508,
675 in 1899, $23,534,531 in 1898 and $19,
579,637 in 1897. In the latter year
California was credited with $15,000,
000, and has since adhered closely to
that figure. The better handling of
lower grade ores was responsible for
last year's total of $15,650,000, in which
was probably "included some driblets
from Alaska.
The world's gold output in 1900 is
placed by the Journal at $255,924,654,
compared with $311,505,947 in 1899 and
$287,327,833 in 1898. South Africa fell
from $78,070,761 in 1898 to $7,208,869
in 1900. Deducting the Transvaal out
put from the grand totals for 1899
and 1900, the statistics show an in
crease - in the other gold-producing
countries of $10,171,000. The largest
gains were made by the United States,
Canada, India, Rhodesia and Brazil,
while in Australia and China there
were important increases. Had Cham
berlain's war been avoided by conced
ing the Boer tax on cyanide a very
moderate exaction South Africa
would have contributed $110,000,000 in
gold in 1900. In the latter year the
United States headed the list at $78,
159,674 from our own mines. Aus
tralia was second with $73,467,110,
Canada third with $27,916,752 and Rus
sia fourth with i $23,090,862. Mexico
held fifth place with $9,409,063.
Silver production in the United Stat
es in 1900 reached 59,561,797 troy
ounces, worth, at. rmarket quotations,
$36,567,000." This" total compares with
$34,036,168 in 1899, $33,065,482 In 1898
and $33,755,815 in 1897. The average
value in 1897 was 59.79 cents per ounce
compared with 58.26 in 1898, 59.58 in
189, and 61.41 In 1900. Hence the gain
in value may be traced to three causes
a slight advance in the quotation,
improved metallurgy and, larger out
put. .
ALABAMA VOTERS
Tha Constitutional ConTantlon Makes
New and Strange Qualifications
for Votars
The Alabama constitutional conven
tion adjourned last Saturday after
making the following qualification for
voters:
Section 7, describing those who shall
be disqualified from voting, mentions
idiots and insane persons, and those
convicted of various crimes, including
miscegenation, vagrancy and offering
to buy or sell a vote.
Section 6 reads f "After the first day
of January, 1903, the following per
sons and no others shall be qualified
to register as electors provided they
shall r not be qualified under section 7
of this article:
"First Those who can, unless pre
vented by physical disability, read and
write any article of the constitution
of the United States in the English lan
guage, and who, being physically able
to work, have been regularly engaged
in some lawful business or occupa
tion, trade or calling, for twelve
months next preceding the time they
offer to register.
"Second The owner in good faith in
his own right or the husband of a
woman who is the owner of forty
acres of land situated in the state,
upon which they reside, or the hus
band of any woman who is the owner
in her right of real estate situated
in this state of the value of $300 or
more, or the owner or the husband of
a woman who is the owner in her own
right, of personal property In this
state assessed for taxation at $300 or
more; provided, that all taxes due by
him for the year next preceding the
year in which he offers to vote shall
have been paid."
Other dispatches say that the word
ing of the Seventh section is such that
every mulatto and person of mixed
blood In the whole state is forever dis
franchised, including all illegitimate
children. If this is the effect ot the
new constitution as the dispatches say,
it will prove anything but a blessing
to that state. Such a thing as that is
evidently against good public policy
and may be said to be immoral. If the
constitution disfranchised the parents
of illegitimate jchildren, there might be
some justice in it, but to punish a child
for a crime that it never committed is
certainly immoral. Any one who has
travelled in the south and noticed how
seldom a real, unmixed black man is
seen down there will Immediately un
derstand that the mixed blood provi
sion will disfranchise nine-tenths of
the negro population on account of
race and color, which Is a clear viola
tion of the fifteenth amendment. It is
in fact a more drastic measure and
more direct violation of the constitu-.
tlon than either the Mississippi or
North Carolina law. v
WHAT AILS JOHN BULL
Tha Policy That Has Been Pursued
" From Time Immemorial In Regard
to Education
Since the bright, educated Ameri
can workingman who gets twice the
wages that the Englishman gets has
been producing goods at so much less
labor cost than they can be produced
in Great Britain has become a threat
to the commerce of the whole empire,
some of the said Englishmen are wak
ing up and trying to find out what hit
them. A very few have attacked the
whole of the ancient theories that
have been cherished by the aristoc
racy. It has been held in England, as
well as by numerous snobs in this
country, that it would not do to edu
cate the common people above the
station to "which It had pleased God
to call Jnem." They-held that the
common people were essentially a dif
ferent race, that an education would
only make them discontented with
their station and that they were by
nature unfitted to hold any other sta
tion. That sort of policy has resulted
in producing a population of dullards
who cannot compete with the edu
cated American workmen. If the
plutocrats could have had their way in
this country, we would have the same
sort of Working population. The whole
influence of the republican party,
especially in this state, has been in
that direction. Instead of trying to
build up the common schools and the
state university, of late years espe
cially, they have attacked them both
whenever an opportunity was afforded.
The following article, clipped from
a London paper, will give a better idea
of the intellectual standing of the
British workingman than anything
that The Independent can say:
"The senior partner of a large busi
ness concern not a hundred miles
from Manchester takes a kindly inter
est in the welfare of his employes, and
never misses an opportunity of bring
ing them on, as he terms it.
"The other day an industrial and
fine art exhibition was held in a neigh
boring town and he accordingly ar
ranged for a number of his work peo
ple to pay a visit there and thereby
improve their minds. The party, con
ducted by the foreman, duly went, ami
returned highly delighted with their
day's outing. But when the senior
partner saw the foreman on the fol
lowing morning the interview, short
as it was, gave him a shock.
"Well, D ," he hegan, "and how
did you get on yesterday? See all
there was to be seen, eh? Pick up
some new ideas?"
"Yes, sir; thankee, sir," responded
the 'foreman, cheerily, 'and a very nice
time we had, sir. It was this way.
When we got to the exhibition we was
considerin' what was best to be done,
so we appointed a deppertation o'
three to see what it were like, and
when they comes out and says it were
all pictures and sculpturies we
thought it a pity to spend our shill
in's on 'em, so we went to a tea garden
and 'ad a blow on the river, sir, and
werry . pleasant it all were, sir.
Thankee kindly, sir!"
That is a picture of workingmen
that could not be duplicated in the
United States outside of the Slav and
Hungarian slaves whom the coal trust
has imported to work its mines, but
it is a fair picture of the English
wage-worker.
Destroyed the Source
The change in the face of nature
caused by the destruction of the
mighty forests of Lebanon has perma
nently impoverished the entire region
involved. The Judean valley was ren
dered arid, and Palestine today can
support but few people because her
water courses have been dried up, for
the great trees which sheltered the
snows and kept the pitiless sun from
reaching into the heart of the springs
have been destroyed utterly, and are
without successors.
THE WAR ON WOMEN
How tha British Soldier Carries It Bravely
on In South Africa The Women do not
Complain and tha Men Will
Fight on
The Rev. Dr. H. D. Von Brockhuizen
of Pretoria, South Africa, the minis
ter who closed the volksraad with
nraver after President Kruger's his
toric ultimatum had been read to that
body, is in New York city, staying at
12 West Twenty-first street. He was
banished from Pretoria after that cap
ital fell, but not until he had spent ten
days in jail, where he says he was
kept on a diet of bread and water. His
brother. Dr. H. J. Von Brockhuizen, of
the Orange Free State, who also served
in the Boer armies, and who was cap
tured and banished, accompanies him.
Their mission in this country is to
raise money for the Boer women and
children now in refugee camps. Inci
dentally, the Rev. Mr. ' Brockhuizen
says that he will try to remove some of
the' impressions of his country that
have been created by unfriendly writ
ers. "The Boers are not barbarians," he
said, in excellent English, "no matter
what you may have heard about them.
Our women and children, who are at
present concentrated in camps estab
lished by the British, are in a horrible
condition. . It was bad enough when
I left South Africa, but I know, from
letters that I have received one only
the other day from my sister that it
is a hundred times worse now.
"When I left South Africa I was vir
tually banished by order of General
Maxwell, military governor of Pretoria.
General Maxwell - wrote to me that I
had better leave the country, and pro
vided me second-cabin passage to Eu
rope. When I asked him why he was
going to send me, a paroled prisoner of
war, away, he said: 'Yon are too in
fluential; you will not take the oath,
and you are regarded as dangerous.'
Even then, assisted by Mrs. Botha and
Mrs. General Joubert, both members
of my congregation, I had undertaken
the work of relieving the helpless fa
milies of soldiers, whom they had be
gun to herd in their camps. I was
very plain-spoken with General Max
well, as I could afford to be, for he
knew the conditions as well as I. His
wife, who, by the way, is an American,
has issued an appeal to her country
women on behalf of these same peo
ple. "
"You should bear in mind that we
do not ask the world to take our word
for the conditions that prevail In the
camps. In an official report, which I
have in my mind, made by Dr. Ronald
P. M'cKenzie, of the British army, on
February 18, of this year, the British
government is notified that the condi
tions are horrible, the death rate ap
palling,, and the food furnished wholly
unfit to eat. Nothing I or any one else
has ever said has been half as caustic
as this arraignment of his own people
by Dr. McKenzie."
Of the ultimate result, Dr. Von
Brockhuizen said: '
"The Afrikanders will never be over
come. They will fight to the last, if
necessary, but that will not be neces
sary. Not since the first gun was fired
have we been In so good a condition
as now, with the deplorable exception
that our women are being brutally
treated by the invading army. A re
cent account shows that there are
more than 34,000 British soldiers in the
hospitals, while practically all of our
fighting men are in the saddle. The
climate, the topography of our country,
everything, is fighting for us, and there
is no- thought of surrender. All stor
ies to that effect you can set down as
lies made of whole cloth.
"The unjust tales about Mrs. Botha
are a sample. I am Mrs. Botha's pas
tor. While Lord Roberts was in Pre
toria he tried to get me to go and see
her husband and ask him to surrender.
It was gossiped about that the commander-in-chief
had been entertained
at tea by her. Being her pastor, it
was my privilege to ask her how much
truth there was in the statements.
Her reply breathed the true spirit of
the Boer woman. 'Do you suppose,'
she said, 'I would drink tea. with a
man who is fighting my husband? I
told Lord Roberts that I would go to
see my husband with a message, but
that as for trying to influence him I
would never do it.'
- "When we have won, the attention
of the world having been attracted to
us, it will be found that, instead of be
ing peopled by a wild tribe of semi
civilised farmers, the two republics ap
propriate more money to free educa-tion-than
any other7 country, popula
tion and wealth considered, In the
world. It will be learned that instead
of being religious bigots the people of
the Transvaal and of the Orange Free
State taxed themselves to 1 help . sup
port the Roman Catholic clergy and
schools. It will be learned that our
attitude toward foreigners before the
war began was the most liberal in the
world more liberal than that which
finds expression in even this free coun
try. It will be learned that practically
the entire foreign, or Ultlander, pop
ulation, Englishmen excepted, sided
with the burghers, and most of them
took up arms in their cause, and it will
further be learned that this was not
done in any mercenary spirit."
"Continuing, Dr. Von Brockhuizen
said: .
"The Boer army will grow instead of
diminish from now on.. It numbers
15,000 to 17,000 men, and for every one
lost in battle or captured two or more
Cape Dutchmen will join our forces. It
would be a reflection on human -nature
to think otherwise. True, they
are British subjects. But many of
their daughters are married to Free
State and Transvaal burghers. These
duaghters, with their children, are in
the reconcentrado camps now by the
score, and their kinsmen will fight for
their . release. General Kritzenger,
who captured Jamestown the other
day, Is a Cape Colonist. If captured he
would be shot as a traitor. Practically
his entire commando is In the same
boat. Is it likely they will ever sur
render? They have everything to gain
and nothing to lose by. staying in the
field. . -
"As for equipment, the Boers are
better off for small arms today than
they were when the war began. They
are all armed with Lee-Metford rifles,
and they know how to use them. They
have plenty of ammunition. General
Dewet has tons of It buried In the
earth, and he knows right where to go
and get it."
I A Lawless Mayor,
They have a typical republican
mayor out in Denver. The libertines
out there are in the fashion of walk
ing up to ladies on the street, taking
them by the arm or around the waist
and making indecent proposals to
them. If they are arrested by the po
lice or convicted before a magistrate,
this republican mayor immediately
pardons them. A policeman saw a
man walk up to a lady, put his arm
about her and attempt to draw her
into an ally. The policeman flew to the
protection of the woman and a terrible
fight ensued, but the vlllian was cap
tured after the policeman had been
severely wounded. " As soon as the
criminal was in jail . the mayor par
doned him. As several such cases as
that had happened before, a mass
meeting was held by men and women
of all parties and the mayor was de
nounced. The chief of police gave or
ders to his men not to make more ar
rests for such crimes, but to attack the
vlllian on sight with clubs and pistols.
Denver will be a good place for decent
people to stay away from until that re
publican mayor is dethroned.
A BOER ENVOY
Ha Addresses an Enthusiastic Audlance ia
DenTar When te Boers Want Sup
plies They go .Out aud Capture
Them From the Engllnh
' Envoys
It is strange how few people really
think for themselves and how very
many follow after their political party
without any thought at all. They will
instantly abandon the principles that
they have cherished for a lifetime if
their party or their president aban
dons them. When Kossuth came to
this country in 1851 In the interest of
Hungarian independence, he was given f
the hearty sympathy of the whole pop-
ulation. There was no party at that
time that looked with favor upon the
crushing of a little republic by a f
mighty empire, and consequently
there was no body of people who re- t
fused their sympathy or what aid they
could give to Kossuth. Now when
there is a great political party favor- .
ing government by force and with- f
out the consent of the people governed,
we find thousands of the very men
who greeted Kossuth- with unbounded
enthusiasm, turning a deaf ear to ev- l
ery plea of a Boer enA'oy whose cause '
Is a thousand times more righteous t
than that of Kossuth ever was. This f
shows what a mighty influence a I
wicked and corrupt administration has
upon tens of thousands of people who
never think for themselves, but simply i
follow party leaders, even when those
leaders repudiate the foundation prln-
ciples upon which all free government
rests.
The JBoers have sent several envoys
to this country. The men who call
themselves republicans, following the J
lead of their president and secretary
of state, give them no sympathy at all.
When the envoys say that they are ?
fighting for independence against j
Great Britain, just as we fought in the f
years gone by, some of these men will !
go so far as to say that in that con
test George III. was right and that f
Washington, Jefferson, Franklin and
John Hancock were wrong, that the f
Declaration, upon which we founded
the justness of our war, "was a lie and
that the men who wrote It lied and i
knew that they lied." I
One of these Boer envoys appeared
in Denver' last week, where to the J
credit of t the American name he re-
ceived a hearty welcome. A large au- i
dience, presided over by Senator Pat- !
terson, gave him. their heartfelt sym
pathy and generously contributed to
his cause. After listening to him the I
audience unanimously adopted the ;
following resolutions:
"Resolved, That we honor and re
spect the Boar nations in their utrug
gle for that which all freemen treas- ;
ure a government of their peoplo, for S
their people and by their people; that f
our hearts go out to them in great
sympathy, and that we, as Americans, i
are justified, nay more, under obliga- !
tion to do all possible, within tho lim- ;
its of International law, to encour- t
age and sustain them in their battle
for freedom and in their resistance
to subjugation.
"Resolved, That this waging of war
against women and children, destroy-
ing their homes, herding them in !
barns, outbuildings and prison camps,
with little or no care, unwholesome j
food and under, guard by soldiery, I
seems to us unworthy of any Christian !
nation, and we would fain refuse to t i
believe the truth of such reports but
for the many proofs which we can
neither refute nor deny.
"Resolved, That, knowing the high I
standard of the British nation, the I
courage and humanity of its people I
having often won our admiration, we i
are not without hope that Its leaders
may speedily relent and cause thi.s un-
holy war to cease and on terms not
inconsistent with the freedom cf the
Boers, which just and magnanimous
act. If done, will, in our judgment, re-
dound to Its glory and honor through f
generations to come. I
"Resolved, That duly attested copies
ot the foregoing resolutions be for-
warded to the press, to our cor.gres- i
sional delegation and such other na- t
tional and foreign officials as tho exe
cutive committee shall determine."
Senator Patterson's speech was in
part as follows:
VIn condemning the dealings of Eng- ;
land with the South African repub
lics we do not condemn England as a f
nation, nor the English people as a
body. Rather it is the particular party
that is In power we condemn. One
political party may oppose a war, an- '
other approve it. If it is the war party
that administers the government, and ;
we believe the war unrighteous, our
condemnation is of that party and not
of the nation. In countries whero bal
lots are sovereign, as in Great Britain
and the United States, an enlightened
and moral public opinion may right
evils at any time. So the British vot- I
ing public may conclude that their
war against the South African repub
lics is wrong a crime, and withdraw
their armies and give the Boers the
independence they seek and merit. I t
believe if the great statesman, Glad-
stone, could control I believe It tha
liberal party of Great Britain were in t
power, the war of subjugation would
end and the English feel that instead
of humiliating and weakening Eng-
land by the act Its moral status would
be enhanced and its influence for good f
over other nations extended.
"But I should not dwell upon the
subject. You have assembled to listen f
to one who, from position in Cape
Colony and participation in the battles
that have ensanguined African soil
with so much British blood, has won ;
your sympathy and admiration. Com-
mandant W. D. Snyman will relate the f
story of Boer wrongs and Boer bravery
and suffering and the unquenched
spirit that impels them to give up life S
and home and property that they may I
save liberty for, the survivors and their
descendants, and a place among the t
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