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Show BISHOP RYAN" SCORES M'KINXEY Little African Reputlic Have Looked - In Vain to the Great Republic. Alton, 111., Dec. 17. The country owes the duty to every instinct of its better self, were it only for its own awakening; awaken-ing; therefore still Godspeed your movement and Senator Mason's and Reprosentative Jett's resolutions. The little republics of far Africa have thus far looked in vain to the great republic, re-public, as the moment in infamous eclipse of its high traditions and of its nobility of purpose or influence, and for the first time in its more than cen- deaf to the, appeal of a struggling people, peo-ple, and, shame of shame, so blind and deaf because itself trampling down a people the instant before its ally. The recent death of Pilar at his Thermopylae will be a storied death. Amid the riot and anarchy of the world-greed for gold, and under the usual thick London fog of hypocrisy and lies, the manly Boer must fight the battle of liberty alone, and we must look at him, not he at us, for the lesson les-son of freedom. Pauncefote caught us executively drifting, and at Washington and The Hague carefully put the ship of state of the land of Washington, Adams and Jefferson in Tory tow-, lustily applying the Salisbury salve for weak or dying peoples machine guns, cant and dumdum dum-dum bullets, the acme of arrogant brue Pharaseeism and money-bag civilization. civ-ilization. To make the farce of statesmanship complete, Avhile with one hand patting pat-ting his weakling protege into the Philippines, Phil-ippines, sneering Cecil with the other has set his puppet Canada brazenly in Alaska at the very gate of a port, and withal has sedulously inspected and armed his border from Vancouver to Halifax, and doubly fortified his island fringe from Halifax to Jamaica, i With, like Norman craft he doubtless suggested to the kaiser, among other things, that it was not wejl to bolster up republics, even in South Africa. Marathon and Platea are now matched, match-ed, and it is clear that the sturdy travail tra-vail of the Boers in arms to do or die amid the fastnesses of the land will win: that England, the drunkard of spoil and deceit, will reel from the blow, and that the new breath will sweep off the stage here for good and aye the strutting big little fellows of the moment our Merritts. Davises and Hays; our Lodges, Reids, Choates and Fryes; Cullom of the little tin cup, and Fryo, the astounding Frye of the Philippine Phil-ippine idols. For as the Boer or farmer of '76 stood near the opening of the nineteenth century cen-tury to give its wonderful impulse to democracy through three continents, so stands the Boer of '99 at the very-threshold very-threshold of the twentieth, to give new, wider and lasting force over the earth to government of the people, by the people, for the people. More, far more than in our own revolution, revo-lution, is it demonstrated that victory at the last is not to money or guns, but to men when inspired by and breathing the breath" of freedom. Free America should speak out in thunder tones in behalf of Boer and liberty, but not equally skilled in arms. Out, then, with the cant of the Pharisee, Phari-see, with sordid lust and Tory taint! Once more, on the Boer of '76 at Lex- : ington and Valley Forge, let your ! thought and deep-toneel blessing be, and hail, all hail and Godspeed to the Boer of '09. JAMES RYAN, Bishop of Alton. |