| Show P STANLEY DENOUNCED BY LEYDS European of Transvaal the African Explorer with Mendacity and Alleges that Ho is 19 Ignorant of African Boers Use Soap and are aro War of Conquest 2 Js is for Gold 5 1 That Is what hilt Dr W J Loyds Euro European European agent nt ot of the tho Transvaal govern ment hM has to say concerning the WAr Tho Transvaal hM bas been forced Into on an unjust War Sly My coun COUll have nn an Innate horror ot of war warI I had hoped ho d that the enemies ot of m my country would nt at least spare her from outrage and calumny nod and that they would venerate In our illustrious president dent the virtues ot of the tho people ot of whom he bo Is chief I was waa woefully deceived Chamberlain attacks our liberty Stan Stanley ley our honor Stanley has explored Central AfrIca lie also pretended to know the Trans Trona TransVaal Vaal thoroughly lie declares that ho will not state anything ot of which he Is not sure Hure and which might ml ht be contra contradicted dieted Wo We will see sceIn In the first place Stanley hM hat only one journey to Pretoria lie stopped for tor live or six days In n Johan Johnn Johannesburg which In reality Is not a Transvaal town but rather A city ot of I cosmopolitan speculators There he only mot met friends of at Cecil Rhodes Md and Jameson Hence the Information he herc rc received elved was A a not very 01 trustworthy THE TIIE SOAP QUESTION I need but mention a te few of at Stan 10 calumnies to convince you OU ot of the lack ot of veracity In hIs assertions I will not dw dwell on the Infamous epithet ot of Old Chimpanzee he hc applied to our Illustrious president Sl Stanley nl y says our peasants am strangers to soap All who haio visited the Transvaal farms praise the scrupulous Iou lous II cleanliness characteristics ot of the Dutch encountered everywhere I Our many soap lOOP factories do not de depond pond nd on and for tor patrons pa Irons Stanley Stanlcy that this very Cr n commodity I Is prodigiously expensive la hi the cents nt iU U apiece The tariff quotes wash log Ing soap at six lib cents Q a pound and toilet soap nt at ten cents You cant buy for tor that In the English factories lie makes I a false statement re re regarding garding matches for tor whIch we pay inthe In Inthe the Transvaal three cents a box while In England and other countrIes the they are sold for tor five and ten cents per por box In contradiction to Mr Stanleys amr matrons I say that I have never neer seen seena n a peasant Hoer make lec use uso ot of a flint to light his pipe TAX ON COFFEE Stanley reproaches us for tor not hay haw hawins ins taxed cort coffee because the Boors consume such Immense quantities ot of this article Our shows that cot cott t fee is II taxed seven seen per cent ad valorem like all 1111 other alimentary articles I mention these minor matters so 01 may judge the more Important alle allega allegatIons n lion monr these allegations Is the one which claims ms that President fortune owes Its origin to the Trans Transvaal vaal aal monopolies The accusation Is n a ridiculous one All concessIons to the monopolies were given ghen by the Yolks Kruger has hIlS nothing to todo todo do with them Whatever revenue was Imposed liy by the tho went into Inlo the public treasury The chief executive ot of the Transvaal Republic Is hon at And his hll popularity with the Dutch In South Africa Is III mainly due to this most excellent virtue All fortune was 88 made mado by br tanning fanning From n a small beginning he Into n a wealthy land owner oner Ise He HeIs Is economical and shrewd Ills HIs riches were mAde by the renting out and selling sell lull InK ing of farms all over oer the South African Republics EDUCATION n IN OE EnL The Boors are represented to the world b by Stanley as 0 a sav savage age e race ns as brutes brutell who can neither rend read nor a rile I have no patience with I this man I wID not to co Cato uno details reo re 4 f V V tI tIthe I the whole nation lie says that n a Door Boor killed nn an English woman on the high highway highway way seeking to 10 Imply that the Boers do donot donot not respect women The and their kin the Doers are noted for tor their kind treatment ot of their wives and children and for the beauty aut uC of th their lr home life lite Thc They are lUe a hardy set lIet but affectionate and chivalrous A FEW FEN CO COMPARISONS Stanley the chief ot of the treat great phil philanthropic 1 British In Central Africa u us ot of cruelty cruelly toward the tho I will admit that w the have haYo employed rigorous toward the Jamr but these wore ar for solf and the they were tempered li by a paternal Uon tion ot of the law But those measures ar are not murderous lute lite Ih time massacre cre ot of the thc blacks In Rhodesia where the Ish blew up a cavern with dynamite In which the unfortunate natives had tak on refuge Mr Ir Chamberlain used other to precipitate hostilities lie Hc us ua simp simply as traitors traitor to the Brit sh bh crown as ro rebellious vase ThIs theme inspired the British diplomacy and that ot of air Milner It made many dupes and Cape Colon Colony and even een oh 01 the European continent I nm am with documents open to In Inv speeton by the courts and the press Qt pf which prove roC conclusively that the Transvaal has hall been since IU as It amt at a state stale b by the y PIr at eh government G eat at CAn no more mort claim over oer us than France or Germany We h have e our diplomatic representatives tives In every land and oven on In Eng England England land Our nt at London reo ro his conge conga from Queen and ioe versa cnn consul lb Ih Pretoria from President Kru Kruger r Are these the relations ot of n a vassal state and anda It a power BRITAIN O FOR SPOILS I reiterate that greed ced for tor gold and imperial conditions have caused eMI civil iced to Into n a power that raises wet war without any other motive than ot of polls The world may rest reat assured that as ae w defond ourselves and the principles for tor which W we tight to the death Thus tar far fortune ha has favored us and It appears from the hIstory or of the WM war that God la Is with our arms I this false statement I need to the tact fact that Boer cannot annot liter enter the tho communion or of the church unless the they are ale able to read end write No parent would bear the shAme ot of raising bo boys and girls girl outside ot of the church There Thelt is III n a news nelI newspaper paper In fn oer every hamlet also art are not for lor J and Stanleys that all lan languages e hut but the Dutch are prohibited In n the pUblic schools has hns been thoroughly refuted Stanley hu has the effrontery to lay the alleged crimes ot of the tho few tew Individuals to toV V W luW long lon IS as a single burgher remaIns alive In the South African Republic the war will not lie be Wo are ready for peace on nn an honorable basis While battling and shedding h our blood we are willing willingto to 10 listen to an nay honorable but we will resIst Injustice lIce both on Eng and territory until the thelast last man has breathed his last on the tattle field To the enslavement ot of the English our tools refuge beyond the Orange ricer an and retreated beyond the Vaal Vr 11 In that little land we nr confined we only n ask I for tor peace and Independence We WI N |
