Show = = S ThE RftFIJS ND AMERICAN SYMPATHY0 Joseph H Hertz a Prominent Hebrew Divine of Johannes burg Gives Facts to Demonstrate They Do Not S S Deserve It In tho war now waglngbetwcen Great Britain and the South African republics are the Beers entitled to the sympathy o vthc people of the United Stales Sentiment answers Yes but what docs common sense answer Commonsense Common-sense bids us remember that the spirit of history knows nothing of sentimentality sentimen-tality that to extend the domain of sentiment over a question where It has no legitimate control Is demoralizing and unworthy of a clearthinking1 people peo-ple and above all things that wo must see facts not as we wish but as we llnd SNow them Now facts seen as they are will speedily force us to the conclusion that the Boers are not entitled tp our sympathy sym-pathy because there are few civilised Governments which in their Ideals tempers and methods differ so widely as docs the Government founded on the Declaration of Independence from that founded on the Sand River convention Various proofs immediately suggest themselves to clinch this argument For example Lincolns No man is good enough to govern another man without that other mans consent might profitably profit-ably be compared with Kroners tacit assumption No man not a Transvaal Boer ought to have any voice as to how he should bp governed especially If he bo an Intelligent or an educated person But I refrain from using stock arguments derived from books hearsay or reporters imaginations I call to mind the wise warning that no man ought to talk on South African problems prob-lems unless he bar taken the preliminary prelimi-nary precaution of being born in South Africa And falling that my aim is lo do the next best thing to confine myself my-self at least to facts derived from my own experience during my two years stay at lie storm centtr of the tilt lander agitation It has been my privilege to bring to lie notice of the civilized world that the Grievances of the Ulilandors were not altogether I material grievances Jlnanrlal grIevances but that there were moral grievanc as well foremost among these discrimination against Catholics and Jews on the score of religious re-ligious belief I shall therefore quote to you chapter and verse on this important im-portant topic so helpful for the perception i per-ception of moral bearing on this subject sub-ject The Revised Grondwot constItution of 1SOG provides that the following persons per-sons must be members of some Protestant Pro-testant church The President Art SI and State Secretary Art JH members of the First and of the Second Sec-ond Volksraad Arts 2B and 27 magistrates magis-trates Art 140 Superintendent of Nations Na-tions and and Minister of Mines Art lOS Supeilnlendent of Education Art 5 law No S 1S02 and teachers in Got ctnment subsidized schools AiL 33 and lOot snmii rv law 1 T j and of camse all nih Itary olliclals Gmouidwei tinkering Is a periodical pastime r r of tho w5sc men of Pretoria Only last rear the Grondwet WAS alto gether recast Deputations pleas and petitions from all sides went up for re moval of this last remnant of bar barism to no avail All the clauses re latIn to the religious disabilities with one solitary exception Art HO re mained In full force Is It not humiliating that In the cbs lug year of tIme nineteenth century when many of us are already on tiptoe Cot the whiffs of purer air that the coming century will brlrgr to see in a republic laws that carry with them the close air of mcdlaevallsm which arc a survival of the good old times Avnn witches were burned and people lashed to church against their will Of course the Boer sympathiser ad mits to tlje Jew and Catholic iliac these jaws arc bad but you enjoyed many liberties in the Transvaal you were tolerated there and things even In leg islation were beginning to be mended Toleration answer the Catholic in Jew we do not want toleration Toleration is an Insult Nuisance arc tolerated And as far as the mending or the obnoxious sections of the old urondwet are concerned we reel that pad laws must not be pafchd nor must they be mended bad laws must be burned And I know that I voiced lila sentiments of every Jaw anti rath nile In South Africa when atthe great imlandor meeting of July l6th last I dfClared We do not wait llbcitles we want liberty Some years ago a friend of mine a Presbyterian clergyman In Ihe Transvaal Trans-vaal a student of American history delivered a lecture before a yotuijy peoples peo-ples society on the Mosum Tea Party An enlightened burgher who WPS present denounced that lecture as an outrage against decency and good order What right had an man to speak in the Transvaal on a sublect like the Boston Tea Party with Its watchword taxation without representation represen-tation Is tyranny Those Americana had no more reason to resist their Government than the TJItuintkrs have today and for a clergyman o praise I their attitude la nothing short of fo I iriemfng revolt I Now remember that this trom the mouth of a Transvaal burgher Is by no moans madness rather it Is method foreIpht and consistency But fn all fairness can ac much be said for the proBoor sympathizer Has he a right to use divers measures and divers weights in moral questions as an American praising his ancestors what as an Anerlophobc he reviles In the Tilt landers S and their British friends One other illustration No one took more enthusiastic part in the Fourth i iiI ii e I 1 7 I i it 31p 4dt13 irAtt I XF 5 jv I t i w y IJd Hsi iif jjj PfpRp 2r > 45ftv viWWa r 5 L Jy I I i 1i44 1 i1 I I Joseph Herman Hertz Ph D Rabbi of Wetwatersrand Hebrew Congregation Congre-gation Johannesburg gives his opinion of the struggle between Britain Brit-ain and the Boers and tells many things regarding the struggle which will bo of keen interest to Americans S of July celebration by the Americans in Pretoria than some of the highest oC the Boer officials Unfortunately they knew nothing of the contents of the Declaration Independence They sat down expecting to be In a position to crow over the common enemy of Boers and Americans They got more than they bargained for They heard Wa hold theta truths to be selfevident that all men arc created equal that governments derive their Just ppwers from tho consent of the governed that whenever any form of government becomes be-comes destructive of these ends it Is the right of the popple to alter or abolish abol-ish It The history of the present King Is a hinlory of repeated Injuries and usurpations he baa refused his assent lo laws the mostvwholctsome und necessary nec-essary for the public good He has endeavored en-deavored to prevent the population of theSe States for that purpose obstructing obstruct-ing the laws of naturalization of foreigners for-eigners He has obstructed tho administration ad-ministration of Justice and has made Judges dependant on his will alone for the tenure of their offices etc cte In every stage of these oppressions WO have petitioned for redress In the most humble terms our repeated petitions hav been answered only by repealed Injury S S M > Paul TvClcostcr Fordhas recently brought to light the amusing incident of Benjamin Franklin listening to tlio address Of welcome made In his honor at the Paris Academy and In his Ignorance Ig-norance oC the French language api S plauding loudest those portions which sang his praises This Pretoria Incident S S Inci-dent Is however funnier than its j S Paris counterpart Gen Joubert and State Secretary Relt with the boat grace possible under the circumstances S 5 soon had to face the Illysuppressed smiles of an audience that realizedonly too wall how completely tables hail turned These Boer worthies came to scoff and remained to sulk the rest of the evening You see English people notwithstanding the semiIdiotic carl cat tiro that does duty as the stage En1 gllshmaji In America saw and hugely 55 enjoyed the Joke S > 5 I sometimes wonder whether some Americans could see It JOSEPH II HERTZ 1 I T r Th C 1 S S rjc 4 ci tt I t j t tbli d qP I 1 t i S dl C drc i t tP1 u1 1 IL II t tor J I It I I Jj1 fzJ 1 1 4 I i I I y S I 2tfc < 3 I I 0 1511111 f iii 1 t I Vj 2I t S 4 j Soldiers of the Queen now are in possession of the Boer capital The British War office has received an official dispatch from Gen torch Koberts announcing the capture nnd the formal seizure The burghers have icmoved their Government to a mountain fastness and friends of her Majesty say it is up to OouvTaul The above picture is a typical outpost of the surrendered city I |