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Show defeated Boers in the saddle, will have been in working work-ing order for at least five months before our Filipinos Fili-pinos elect their first General Assembly." The Boers were civilized when they, went to South Africa. After a while the English went there and took possession. England, in a temporary fit of morality, abolished slavery. .'The Boers would not have it. They picked up their traps, gave up the country they had civilized and made a trek to' the north. They built up a new. country, but the English En-glish kept pushing north. They found diamonds; later they found a great gold reef. The Boers had a one-idea, stubborn old Boer President. He levied unreasonable and shameful taxes on the English, then some English and some Americans who were there got up an insurrection. The heartburning continued, the taxes levied were unfair and unjust, and it finally got to be a question of whether the country should be ruled by the English or the Boers. That brought on a great war. The Boers were but a handful; but they gave England the jolliest fight she had had for 100 years. England finally triumphed through pure weight of numbers, but when it came to a readjustment ther1 were so many difficulties in the. way, there were so many warring tribes outside that England had to call upon the Boers to help her. ' The General who had made a most magnificent fight against them appeared as their savior, and they decided that it was better to have the Boers a$ friends than as enemies ; that it was better to trust to the clear judgment of the Boers thanxto the callow cal-low statesmen that they had to send there, and so an arrangement was made. Admiral Dewey and Gen. Merritt took Manila, and they found that the region was peopled.'by something over thirty tribes, that in the whole outfit out-fit were a few partially educated men, and many of them were knaves. It was a clear case that if they left the island to itself it would be simply a civil war between warring tribes, until one or two tribes conquered. , In theinterest of peace and humanity they put down the fighters, they built schoolhouses for the children,, they established a stable government, govern-ment, and now they are doing what they c,an to give the few enlightened ones their representation. The story is not elaborated; "We have only stated enoligh to show how determined the Nation of New York is to be unfair toward anything that happens in this country, and to hold out as an example of direct and perfect justice and mercy the old bruiser beyond the 6ea. That article would be unworthy of the most radical rad-ical Tory paper in England. It is simply shameful in a newspaper that pretends to be American and that draws its patronage from the American people. UNFAIR COMPARISONS. If there is anything the New York Nation likes jnore than another it is to make comparisons between be-tween the way things are done in England and in this country, to this country's disadvantage. . In the last Nation that came an editorial begins iwith these words : . . . . . "The English are quicker than we in some things. Our Philippine insurrection ended long before their Boer war, yet complete self-government, with the |