Show BOER SOfR TO AID 5 t Envoys Envoy s Spouse Sp r IS Appeals 18 to the American ican Women 4 SAYS THE Is THE S r i United States Sympathy Would Y Win the Cause Cau e Mrs Abraham Fischer Tells of Trials of the Weak Who Are Left at Home While Husbands and d Sons So SoGo Go Forth to Battle leD Declares cl Mor Moral al Support is All AUTI That is Desired of This Country IF 5 4 4 Our women are fighting for their homes and right must tri tn triumph triumph in the end Here we want 4 to enlist the sympathies of the 4 4 American government if we could o ld f 4 only do that our our cause would be bewon bewon 4 4 won We want the help 4 4 of the American Amerlean n women to bring f 4 that about a If ever their thE r 4 help was needed it Is now and we 4 South African women w are putting 4 our faith in them Appeal of Mrs f 4 4 Abraham Fischer wife of official 4 4 Boer envoy to the women of 4 America 4 New York May IS Mrs Abraham Fischer wife of the Orange Free State delegate accompanies her h r husband to this country She is a Scotch woman Speaking of the war she said that many stories sent out from English sources were wholly false lse She told of the struggles of the Boer women while husbands brothers and sons eons were for liberty and ap appealed appealed appealed pealed to the women of America Americ for comfort and aid I It was outrageous she said that report which was sent out a while ago agn that women were being enlisted Into the Boer army or would be They would go willingly but their services would not be accepted The Boers are not barbarians to send women into war If sonic few nave have b ye been found It Itis Itis ItIs is because they were weye disguised dis as men and thus entered the ranks Would W Be Easier tonight uJ It would be easier for fortha if they might fight As it Is they sf t home homo trying to keep the th grea that the country may not Jae pe be de devastated devastated and it Itis is heartbreaking work Our farms cover large tracts of coun country country country try and the work is done by the na natives natives tives These are negroes of whom hom there are always many but they are re I difficult to manage They are lazy and shiftless and arid heed need the management of a man to keep the them going but there is many a plucky Boer woman quite alone in her h r home homp hom looking after a force which before ne war took all the time of her husband h and sons Life is hard she continued Our women omen struggle with the fortitude de of heroines They never despair They are fighting for their homes and right must triumph in the th end Here we want to enlist the sym sympathies sympathies sympathIes of the American government If we could only do that our cause would be won for all Europe would follow America example We Ye do not want America to fight that is not necessary a mere declara declaration declaration tion of sympathy would be sufficient to throw the balance lalance of favor our way Europe is afraid to be the first but America is a powerful ally whose sup support support support port would bring others Appeal to American Women We want the help of the American women to bring that about We women of other countries hear bear that those here are powerful If ever their help was vas needed it is now and we South African women are putting our faith f ith in them We UVe find here such sympathy from individuals that it makes us u very happy The weeks before re our coming here have been so hard and nd trying that we are appreciative of joy Mr and Mrs Fischer left their home at ten days before the arrival of General Roberts Mrs Fischer said further We put our things Into warehouses quite in methodical fashion but It was terri tern terribly bly hard and depressing to handles handle ha dle I things which had made my home for tor nearly arly thirty years and not know when if ever I should have ha e them again Many a woman in went through h the same thing in their days but we tried very hard to be I hopeful and trust in inthe the time when we should come back We did not believe that the British would wantonly Injure our houses but we do not like now to think of the changes which must al always always always ways be made in war One of Mrs Fischers sons is fighting with the Boer army the other othir is at Cambridge England studying law MODE OF OP RECEPTION Cabinet Decides Not to RecQ ize Envoys Diplomatically Washington May 18 At the th cabinet abinet meeting today the question of the recep reception reception reception tion of the Boer envoys was discussed It ItIs ItIs ItIs Is understood they probably will be pres presented presented presented to the president by the secretary of Continued on Page 2 I o oTO t i IFE CAllS S TO TEl Sf S X fOR AID Continued from Page L 1 1 state They will 11 be received with wih every courtesy but only as a private citizens and not in an any diplomatic capacity Washington May 18 Fischer and Weasels Vessels the floor Boer com commissioners missioners of the Transvaal arrived In Washington tonight Accompanied by the congressional and citizens commission which escorted them thorn from New York they reached the tha city on the congressional limited train at and were given an enthusiastic welcome The avenue was illuminated Sulzer Bids Them Welcome At the hotel the envoys retired to their rooms for a short while and later with the reception committee assembled ass In the I banquet hall hail where they were given an Informal reception Congressman SuLzer the chairman of the reception committee Introduced the envoys and then briefly I made an address welcoming the visitors lo to lothe toI I the capital In the name nam of the liberty loving people of the greatest nation on onearth onearth onearth earth Delegate Fischer He thank thanked ed those present very much for their kind kindness kindness kindness ness and hoped to have hae the to show whether they deserved it or not The delegates then retired to their rooms Later Congressman Sulzer an announced announced announced that the meeting on Sunday even evening evening evening ing at the Grand opera house in honor of the commissioners was to be bua b a reception and not a demonstration A number of prominent public men are arc to t make mako ad addresses addresses addresses dresses including Senators Wellington Al Allen Allen len and ana Teller Representatives Sulzer r DeArmond Rhea and Clark of Missouri Burke Cockran of New York and two of the envoys Fischer Fisch r and Wes Tes sate A committee consisting of Senators Teller Mason and Allen and nd Representatives tives Robinson Sulzer and Clark have been appointed to visit the White H uso and state department to arrange for the visit of the envoys to the president and Secretary Hay Tomorrow they are to re ru remain rumain remain main most of the day at the hoteL Scope of the Mission After retiring to their rooms Mr Fisch Fischer er outlined to the representatives of the press Ps what they hope to accomplish in the United States We are sail said he supplied with ore cre credentials cr from our government and have havo full power to act in a diplomatic capacity c It will not be he proper for us at this time to say what our course will be before we have taken steps to communicate with those with whom we expect to deal Wo Vo W a acome come In the interest of peace and a no coma cessa cessation tion of the bloody war We Ve are engaged In a struggle with the country with which your nation was engaged over a hundred h years ago and we feel that we will hav the moral support of your people The Tho Boers Boer will not give up the struggle The uThe Boers Boors are willing villing that this trouble shall be settled by b arbitration and al although although although though an effort was made to settle it in iq that way before the war began it was without result r sult We Ye are still willing that the trouble shall be settled by b arbitration and are willing to abide by the result Wo are anxious that the United States investigate investigate investigate I the question of difference and use its influence to put an end to the war e |