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Show WHAT DOES ENGLAND CAREP England may win in her struggle with the Boers, but every day is making mak-ing more apparent the truth of President Presi-dent Kruger's statement that England's Eng-land's victors- if victory it be will be at a cost to stagger humanity. But what does England care? What do a' hundred thousand lives and thousands : of widows weigh in the balance with j the luxury and comfort of a handful of Englishmen who seek to despoil the Dutch republic? Care forsooth. A titled Englishman voices- the sentiments sen-timents of his class in the following exclamation: "Mr. Chamberlain and old Kruger have ruined 'the hunting season and emptied . the country houses. " What a pity that the Englishman's sport should be curtailed ever for a season. The only concern that English nobility seems to have with the outrageous out-rageous murder of the poor people in the Transvaal is a regret that its sport at home is interfered with. It is true that the "war charities" wini u nave ueen urganizea are Deing carried out on a scale of remarkable magnitude indicates? some slight interest inter-est in the suffering of the English soldier. sol-dier. But :n the long vista of bazaars, concerts, amateur theatricals ' and shows of all kinds for the benefit of the families of soldiers and the unfortunate refugees of the Transvaal, furnishes a slight diversion for those who are deprived de-prived for the time being of exploiting other and more captivating pleasures. |