Show AMERICAN INTEREST London dispatches announce with v what excessive ive pleasure English om ami ani anI newspapers received the news 1 snub of the Boer Doer en YS The London Times Time assures its read reads s tha that the th failure of the Boor Boer B er s to LI gain ain official recognition in the ruled hUd States tates is complete The Stand StandI ad Mi I pats pat s the president resident on the back b ok and andS anda a ays S that America has not a shred of in this South African huh Ye we e intend to dispose of ourselves it lut hout assistance tance from any outside i 11 ties whatever And nd this was as 85 no doubt what England said aid to those European courts which in Inand and during the American I 1 on fl turned down Benjamin Franklin lohn 1 hn n Adams and the other envoys Of df f fi tuis i embryonic republic seeking friends and sympathizers among the powers of oftie oftie tie tre world England intended to dispose of her r rebellious subjects here in Amer Amera ka a ev n as she expects to dispose of the burghers of the Af At I rian ri n republics without assistance from any outside parties whatever But Bu the English press is mistaken if it thinks the an public has not a hid hied of If concern in this South African quarrel Every argument advanced by bythe bythe the American colonists a century and a ago apples apps with equal force to the cause of the Boers Doers Every appeal aV eal the Americans made is echoed e hoed by these It If justice was entitled to its demands mands in the one case ease it is Js in m the theother theother theother other If it was principle for fr which our forefathers f fought that principle is dear today tl day This republic was established as f J beacon light to other peoples ins irig for and national independence The American Eople are quite as as much interested in m the sacred cause of liberty today as they were when President President dent r Monroe in his message to congress in 1823 said pf of another her people making a t similar struggle for national exist exi t once nee A strong hope has been long lon entertained t founded on their heroic struggle t that they would succeed in their contest and preserve their equal z j station cation anong the nations of the earth It is believed bf that the whole civilized r orld takes a deep Interest in iii their wel welfare welfare welfare fare Although no flO no power l has declared m in faor favor yet et t nane according to lo our information has taken part against them th m Thor Their cause ause and their name have ha e protected them from dangers which might ere this have hav overwhelm overwhelmed Pd ed d any other people The American people peole are as sympathetic sympathetic a and as courageous of ot their con conviction conviction conviction today toda as they were in 1826 1825 when a courageous and Independent inde chief executive said in an official mes message message message j sage The heroic struggles of the Greeks in which our warmest warm st sympathies this thies s as freemen and nd Christians have been engaged have continued to be maintained with varying results ad adverse adverse adverse verse and favorable The American people are not reconciled ed erl to the fact that William McKinley has taken up with the invader refusing even to recognize the existence of the South African republics In marked contrast L to the attitude attitude of John Quincy Adams towards Greece in 1 17 27 The sympathies which the people and gov government ov of the United States StatE Stat have so warmly indulged with their cause Cuse he said in an address to congress s have been acknowledged by their govern government gov government rn ment in a letter of thanks I have received from their illustrious resi resident dent The congressional records are full of resolutions of sympathy for struggling nations We had presidents and states statesmen statesmen men who were independent of the Lon London London London don money power in those days Says We Ve had men in high positions po who were not afraid of imperial bulldozers They spoke the sentiments of the people They represented the s of the then na nation nation tion Under them the republic grew reV great Questions of national honor were not obscured by questions of pe pecuniary pecuniary pecuniary advantage Principles of hu lm human human man right were not then figured up by bya a bookkeeper bo and settled with a 8 certified tied fled check cheek Americans were concerned conc in the Struggles of others as a they had sought to interest others in their then awn Struggles Americans are still interested in inthe inthe Inthe the cause of liberty even though an I 1 administration be b e temporarily tem in power vo I who sympathies are directed as its policies 1 Oli es are co by foreign for In Influence Influence t ence e ce or mercenary considerations c Ie n |