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Show X two Views of iht Irish and the Boers : ANTI-BOER REPUBLICANS. (Salt Lake Herald, Jan.' 10.) The Anglicized press of this country is now circulating the report, emanating from the anti-Boer bureau in London, that the Boers have nothing in common with the Catholics, wherefore the Irish should not extend to the peasant patriots , their sympathy. It isn't a religious question, however. Irishmen know what English domination means; they have chafed under the yoke for several generations. They sympathize sympa-thize with the Boers because they are a weaker people struggling for self-govern- j ment and the encroachment of greed and power upon their national independence. ', They sympathize with the Boers as Burke i and Sheridan, those brilliant Iris-hmen of another century, sympathized with the ! anti-Papist Puritans of New England in their struggles for national independence. independ-ence. . But the most cowardly and insulting plea of the Anglicized Irish-American press an example of which is to be found in the local organ of imperialism is that Irishmen should bend the knee and bow the head before the English throne because be-cause there is power and wealth behind it. and the ability and disposition to punish Ireland for glorying in the pluck and persistence per-sistence of the Boers. There are thousands of Irish veterans in South Africa today fighting beneath the British flag because they are soldiers and j cogs in the great fighting machine which England keeps in motion from one end of I the year to another. But the hearts of Irishmen- who are free, whether in Ire- 1 land or America, and the hearts of the ; ! great majority of Americans, especially j ! those who know the story of Lexington ; and Bunker Hill, are with struggling re- j publics, however crude in form, against i I the encroachment of imperial power. j I If the Transvaal were a South Ameri- j can instead of a South African country, the voice of this nation would be heard in j no faltering or uncertain tones as soon as it were possible for the people to speak, even though an Anglicized administration admin-istration might cower in dread of the financial lash wielded by the power behind be-hind the throne which dwells in the fatal "mile square" of London-. A WOED TO EXCITABLE IRISH- MEN. (Salt Lake Tribune, Jan. 7.) All races of men have their classes. There is a class of Irishmen in the East. and in the south of Ireland itself, th.-.: level-headed Irishmen in America, especially, es-pecially, ought to be cautioned against. To read the Irish World, or. would think that the power and prestige of Great Britain were thoroughly broken. Ther was a great meeting the other night t i New York. One man brought in resolutions resolu-tions to the effect that Great Britain was in the dust; that now she would, for some centuries, suffer all the hardships that Ireland has in the past. Our judgment i that these things are done merely that a set of loafers can wring more assessments out of the Irish-born population of this country. The utmost strength that tlr Boers can bring against- Great Britain! cannot exceed loo.OCO men. If any other nation, would interfere. Great Britain would sink every transport that tried carry reinforcements to the Boers. Morei than that, there is no nation in a condition condi-tion to make war upon Great Eritain :vt. all. Russia has several millions of people in her territory that are in imminent clanger clan-ger of dying of famine. She has unpro- i tected works in .Eastern Asia which it j will take her several years to fix so that 1 she will be in a condition to meet attacks from the sea. and she is using all her strength now to protect those works, net I against Great Britain, but against Japan. 1 France, if let alone, would make a good i fight against England, but she would 1 never dare begin a trouble of that kind. I with Germany and her 800.0CO trained ?'- I difers on her frontier. It would be suioid. 1 In the same way, Germany has ifr fleet whatever to compete with Great Britain. 1 and she, while the great military power f of Europe, still has France on the cm 1 side and Russia on the other, and doeg not trust either. As for Austria. Italy. n Spain and all the other states of Europe. . they are not worth considering. And this is all so plain that we think it will justify H us in saying that the excitement which just now some Irish are trying to work & up is simply to rob their countrymen throughout the country, just as CDon- van Rossa did for fifteen years. Our pri- ? vate judgment is that Ireland has lost the opportunity of a century. Had the ; leading men in Ireland, when this war broke out with the Boers, proclaimed that whatever their-former differences might f have been, or may now be. with England. j the realm being assailed they were ready . to help in the war in favor of their own, j country; had they done that, they wouM ;? have had home rule in six months-homo i rule as much as Australia or Canada- has. : As it is, England will whip the Boers th year or next, some time, and when hfr army comes home, with 150,000 trained men to back her 730 warships, she will not be in a humor to be very merciful to her pronounced enemies. J: - : . I |