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Show :california: TRANSVAAL COMMITTEE OF CALIFORNIA. correspondence Intermountain Catholic.) San Francisco, June 15, 1900. The fol-loAving fol-loAving resolutions AA-ere unanimously adopted at a mass-meeting of the citizens citi-zens of San Francisco: Resolved, That Ave extend to the South African Republic and to the , Orange Free State iur sincerest sym- ' pa thy in the glorious struggle they are i making to maintain their liberties and to vindicate the immutable principle ' that governments are instituted among : men deriving their just powers from the consent of the goA-erned. j Resolved, That Ave. agree Avith the sentiments of Joseph Chamberlain, as stated in his Birmingham speech on June 7, 1SS1, that a forcible annexation of the Transvaal by England Avould" be a national crime; and Ave denounce Chamberlain and the British Government Govern-ment as self-conA'icted criminals in the participation In this national crime, which is as unjust, as horrible and as bloody in 1900 as It A-ould have been In 1SS1. and which aims, in the language lan-guage of Lord Salisbury, "to tear the last shred of independence and liberty from the grasp of a free Republic." Resolved, That eAery country that j ever came under the misrule of Great Britain has, as a result of British tyranny, tyr-anny, been cursed Avith suering and j with famine; and that Ave denounce Great Britain for its policy of draining j its treasury of hundreds of millions of dollars to expend in crushing the spirit of freedom, and -in b'utqhering the defenders de-fenders of that principle in South Africa. Af-rica. Avhile it causes the dead and dying to fill the plains of famine-stricken India, In-dia, for AA-ant of the gold invested in an unholy and terrible Avar. Resolved. That Ave denounce the national na-tional administration for its un-American friendship and support of England, and its persistent and insidious opposition oppo-sition to the graA-e men of the Trans--aal in their noble defense of their country; and for its action, and that i - . .' . t , of its superintendent of the mint in Sari Francisco, at the administration's behest, in abridging the freedom of speech and denying the right of petition peti-tion guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States in refusing to American Ameri-can citizens the right to peaceably assemble as-semble upon the steps of the San Francisco Fran-cisco mint, that had been for a generation genera-tion the people's forum for the discussion discus-sion of all questions of a national and ; of an international character, and j there to "breathe a prayer for the vali-l vali-l ant sons of liberty in South Africa." ! Resolved, That Ave have full confi-1 confi-1 dence in the American people and in the American Congress to do the Avill of the people; and Ave, the citizens of San Francisco, in mass-meeting assembled, assem-bled, hereby petition the congress .of , the United States to intervene in this ' unholy Avar, as it. has a right to do I under the laAv of nations, to the end j that the independence of these tAA'o Re- j publics may be preserved and to ; end the British scheme of spoliation ! and plunder, denounced by Chamber- lain in 1SS1 as a national crime, and Avhich must culminate, if prolonged, in i the subversion of the purest principles 1 of popular goA-ernment. 1 M. F. Tarpey, Chairman: Theodore j Pinther, Secretary. ExecutiA-e Com- i mittee M. Cooney, president; C. W.I Arp and Robert P. Troy, Vice Presi- j dents; L. K. P. Van Baggen, Record- ! ing Secretary; Theodore Pinther, Corresponding Cor-responding Secretary; E. T. Carvalho, Treasurer. 1 |