Show MIGHT AND RIGHT IN AFRICA The Th most mo t pathetic p and tragic tl side o othe the South African war is 11 epitomized in inthe the appeal of Mrs Fischer wife of the Free State delegate del t who 40 accompanies her br husband to America on his t nece t e ce cemon mission mon Calling C on American women for their sympathy and aid in Jil arousing peace sentiment she tells loBs te s of ot the hard bard hardships ships incident to the war i endured bv by bythe thE Boer Boor women If it were only a matter of sentiment the war Wit In South Africa would be ended in less lees than a week The people of the th United Ul ted States as a whole would hail the cessation of the war almost as joy joyfully joyfully fully full as the Boers themselves Their natural affiliations their traditions their very institutions make them pe peculiarly sensitive to the sufferings of nations fighting for liberty But But un tin unfortunately unfortunately fortunately the sentiment of the peo pie can nn no ro expression e in official a tion lOlL The Tb men in power p er at Washing Washington ton can see no means of f helping the Boers Boors either by b a simple expression of ofa o oa ofa a desire for the ending of the war or orby orI orby by an intimation that they view with I regret re ret the expressed determination det nation of the British government to wipe out the th Boer Beer republics British friendship is in their view a thing more to be cher cheri cherished cherished than the gratitude of nf republics especially if those republics are weak and very v ry far away I Mrs Mr Fischer says with simple faith I that right must triumph in the end Generally right does triumph but not when soldiers backed b ed up u by b the unlimited means of ot an empire are pit pita pitted pitted ted against their lr number with comparatively limited resources r The Boer Beer republics are area as s certain c rt in of f anni annihilation as was wu Poland when her neigh neighbors n bon bors reed agreed on OR the thO division of her ter territory terri ri I IA A |