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Show FEW AMERICANS AGAINST BOERS. London. . April 22. "I must advise ad-vise you not to pay too much attention atten-tion to the extravagant, expression expres-sion of friendship of certain well meaning mean-ing but discredited classes called in America 'Anglomaniacs.' " These words were the keynote of a speech made by John Hays Hammond, the American engineer, tonight at a dinner given in honor of Mr. Hammond s return re-turn to England. . Mr.. Hammond explained the depth, of And" mason for' American sympathy j w ith the Boers and he impressed hear- I ers with Great Britain's total lack of effort to counteract the pro-Roer sentiment senti-ment in tha United States. With equal frankness he urged that Great Britain be generous- in .her demands. "Vottr American friends," he declared, "most earnestly hope that in arranging terms of peace wide liberality will be shown to the Boers." Such a statement coming from one who in the same speech referred to his imprisonment -at Pretoria on account of his anti-UoerJtendencies produced a striking effect. The American anglophobes came in for equal criticism with the angloma- niacs in Mr. Hammond's remarks. I "Both cd these classes." said Mr. Hammond, Ham-mond, "are the flotsam and jetsam of . the American population. The citizens who compose the import,,;-,: body of our population are exponents of Americanism Amer-icanism in its highest form." The speaker pointed out that American Amer-ican impressions of the Boer war were derived from the political emissaries of the Boers and 'the. writings and speeches of the British pro-Boers, under un-der which circumstances, he sa4d, it was not surprising that the "corrupt Transvaal oligarchy." masquerading under the name of the "Little Sister! ! Republic." had secured the aid and sympathy of America. "However much we English and Americans differ from the Boers' policy," he continued, "we are compelled to admire the plucky fight made by the- unfortunate and deluded de-luded Boers now under arms." Elaborating upon his argument ip favor of securing generous peace terms, Mr. Hammond unfavorably compared Mr. Kruger's attitude with Genera I Lee's "Christian and patriotic action." But he warned his hearers to learn a lesson from another chapter of the -American civil war 0 yavoiding the mistake of the American' statesman who endeavored to govern the southern south-ern states by northern officeholders, as a result of which many years-elapsed before the harm done by the ."carpetbagger" ."carpet-bagger" was repaired. Among those present at the dinner were the Marquis of Graham, the Earl of Kintore, the Ear! of Jersey, the Earl of Dudley and the Ear of Hardwieke. Lords Grey, Windsor and Harris and I Bear Admiral Lord Charles Beresford. |