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Bruce Grits Melange
The BeneatiotMil journals of the coan
try -will be obliged to take back a good
de 1 of the rob and stofl which they
have been publishing Bince the begin
ingof the Bexer troubles in China if
the latest grape vine cablegrams from
that country respecting the eafety of
Minister t onger are true The horrible
account given a short time sime bythe
yellow journals of New York of the
murder of Minister Conger and the
indlgnitita offered the women of the
Lection read like a sterotyjed dis
patch irom the Bcutb giving the details
of a dastardly assault upon a beauti
ful white lady by a repusive looking
and big burly Negro wretch It now
seems that Secretary Hays tracer sent
through the geod cffieeB of Mr Wu the
Chinese Minister at Washington with
a view to acertainirsg the real facts as
to the fate of the Minister stamps the
word liar upon the alabaster brows of
the Imaginative quill drivero of the
eeusatioral press and makes them eli
gible to membership In the consoli
dated crder of national prevaricators
There is no doubt but that Borne of the
white newspaper men in the United
Sates are the most artistic and pictu
reEque liaiB that ever furniBhed padding
for a yellow j urnal In the account
of the masacrt at Pekm these artistic
gentlemen not only wrote thrilling
stories of Chinese barbarities there en
acted but they seem to have had their
artistB along with them to make sket
ches of the vanouB scenes described
with great particularity and intelli
gence which are reproduced in their
journals of new3 and opinion and
palmed ofl as actualties What a pity
that enterprise must need to prostitute
ltcelfsolow in order to command at
tention The dispatch from Minuter
Conger received by the State Depart
ment on Juy 20 will seriously aflect
the credibility of these enterprising
newB gatherers if true
Soon after the Philadelphia Couven
tion adjourned one of these newe paper
fakers sent out a stery which was
widely published to the effect that two
prominent men In Utah former dem
ocrats had prospered so well during
the three years of McKlnleys admin
istrat on that they had decided to vote
for him this year and that as a guaran
tee of their gcod faith thsy had each
Bent Mr Hanna a check for 50000 for
the repulican campaign fund This
sounded nice and looked nice in print
but there was not a word of truth in
the entire paragraph Mr Heber M
Wells one of the gentlemen referred
to in the dispatch in a personal letter
to the writer under date July 11 190U
says The published statement that I
have givea 50000 to the republican
campaign fund is untrue I beg to in
form you that I made no Buch contri
bution and that I ana as a matter of
fact a poor man Sincerely Yours
Heber M Wells These lying para
graphi ta of the white presB not only
concoct and disseminate lies about
their own race without blushing but
they become bolder and more brazen
when they write about the Negro The
Negro Is their ligitimate prey and lie
whether plausible or not ia seized upon
by these vermin and when they have
put the finishing touches upon it its
remains defy identification
They are just now engaged in man
ufacturing a fine assortment of lies
about the Cbirese troubles although
foreign ministers in China and others
have been unable to communicate offi
cially with their governments for a
month past
These sensational newspapers con
tarn the fullest accounts of what is
transpiring in the flowery kingdom etc
ttc etc adoauEeum It is really dis
gusling to contemplate the depths to
which these reputable gentlemen of the
white press are capable of descending
for pay and a little cheap notoriety
No other Ciyilized country has such a
talented and accomplished army of ex
pert and artUtic j mrnalistic liars as
America We lead the woild We do
My thanks are due that bustling re
publican spell binder tne Hon T T
Allatn of Chicago I Is for the honor of
an election to membership in the Mc
Kiney and Kcosevelt Central Republi
can Club of Illinois Mr Allain de
serves a great deal of credit for the
good work he is doing in the West in
organizing and lining up the forces fur
the great battle ahead of us Ic is going
to take a good deal of hard earnest and
intelligent woik to elect McKlnley and
Rojsevelt and no man understands
this bettei than Senator Allain who
has taken off hiB coat and greased his
lungs for four months of the most active
hustling he ever did in his life The
club is domiciled at 2913 Dearborn st
Chicago and vill do business every
day from now till the close of the polls
on election day Hurrah for Allaib
More power to his voice and mora
strength to his lungs The McKinley
and Roosevelt Central Republican Club
of Illinois has on its roll of membership
some of the ablest and brightest men
in the West lawyers doctors of di
vinity M Ds and business men It
starts out under most favorable aue
pices and with Senator Allain at the
helm it will be heard from or bust its
gallusts in the attempt thats what
If those who think the troube in
China is going to be settled speedily
oacause we have a way of settling these
affairs with inferior races in a few
weeks or months will read Jeremiahs
prophecy as recorded in XXV Chapter
13 38 83 and 37 verges they will find
something there to think about Tbis
trouble in China is prophetically sig
nificant and the nations which have
been most active In enlarging their
spheres of iLfluence and endeavoring
to cram their religion and civilization
down the throats of the Mongolians
thoroughly understand that they have
come to the parting of the wai s
Behold evil shall go forth from na
tion to nation and a great whiilwind
shall be raised from the coasts boun
da ies of the earth And the Elain of
the Lord shall be at that day from one
end of the earth even unto the other
end of the earth they dhall not ba la
mented neither gathered nor buried
Little by little the white man has
forcibly intruded upon tho yellow
man He saw what he beieved to be
the helplessness of China displayed in
its war with Japan Since that time the
white mans arrogance has increased
and the newspapers of the world have
told the Chinese that it is only a ques
tion of time until their nation will no
longer exist being divided among the
nations of Europe which have taken
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their port and whole districts compell
ing a normal acquiescence on the part
of the Chinese
General Lord Wolsley of the British
war office s3 s China possesses every
requisite for ver running the world
S e his a population of 40U000 000 all
speaking the same language or dialect
readily understood Irom one end of the
empire to the other Sbe has enorrr
developed wealth and still enormous
natural wealth awaiting developmei t
Her men if properly drilltd and led are
admirable soldiers They are plucky
and are able to live on next to nothiLg
Moreover they are absolutely fearless of
death Begin witfT the foundation of
millions upon millions of euch soldiers
as those men are capable of being made
and tell me if you oan where the end
-fill be
If American brag and bluster is to
oount for anything we may safely rely
on the fctatement which is being re
peatedly made that an army of 15 000
or 20 000 Americans will be able to clean
cp the Celestials m ten minutes less
than no time We are a very powerful
pe pie
I saw a recent paragraph In one of ihe
dailies the other day which stated that
Che brother of an American cfflcer who
has lost his breath in Pekm in the at
tack on that city had telegraphed the
President from his far ofi western
home that he wanted an appointment
and an assignment to duy in the army
and to be sent to China at once to
avenge his brothers death
If he gets the apponment and the
assignment to duty with transportation
and provisiena all on Ihe same day We
may expect to learn after ha reaches
China and exposes himself to the
Boxers and MandarinB that they have
surrendered laid down their arms at
the feet of the Americ m avenger
Probaby if he takes a press agent
with htsa who has a vivid imagination
and an extensive vocabulary he will
experienoe for a few days or weeks the
sensation which is fell by all these
newepaper heroes of whom we read
powderles3 herco3 wbo never fight bat
tles or get shot
Mr W A Crofluts excellent article
in last weeks American is a most in
teresting instructive and historic 1 y
valuable contribution in defence of the
Boers Mr Bryce in his Impression
of South Africa somewhere Bays in ef
fect that the B jers are cruel in their
treament of the natives aad that as far
back aB 1837 an attempt was made to
pass a civil rights bill in the South
African Republic for the better pro
tection of the native black races Mr
Brycesiysa good -many other things
not complimentary to these Dutch
chriB ian chimpanzees of the Transvaal
who appear to have more Hulv Gdcst
religion than humanity for the blacks
Tba London New Age for May 10
1900 prints an interview had with Mr
Abrahim Fischer by the Netherlands
vVomano League at The Hague for In
ternational Disarmament which was
giyen to the European press on the eve
of Mr F echers departure for the
United 8tates with his colleagues
Messrs Wessels and Wolmarans
In the couree of thi3 interview Mr
Fischer said in answer to the accusa
tion that the Boers are slave holders
We ore accused of being slave holders
If thiB were the case what would have
been easier than to buy a slave from a
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wi h all
his millions has not been able to b
a single slave and certain this would
hav been possible if there were a alav
trade and blaokB to Le bad frorn n
for money Of course we do not treat
them like our equals but we treat them
like children Use
people of an inferior
grade of intelligence and civil 71tion
mere jh uui uue irue worn In all
cusatlona that have been brought
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wara agamsi us- mis sounds very
pretty and will doubtless be a ptj
as gospel truth by those who wish to
believe it
There la a newspaper pub i hed at
King WHIiamstown 8 A edited bv a
very intelligent and observam native
African gentleman ia Eng ishsnd Zulu
It is called Native Opi ion IQOae
of its issues I read an account jf the
fatherly treatment of a native girl
by a B ier firmer which exceeded in
brutality anything I ever heard of
The girl who was under twenty jeara
of age had been guilty of some tiivl
oSence wbich had greatly irritated this
fatherly Boer she was Btrippad to
the waist at d given a sound risging
wiih one of the harness traces and fell
to the ground covered with blood
The account goes on to state that this
pious and fatherly old Duch farmer
tied tbis girl under the body of bis
wagon face down and drcve five or six
miles over a rough road wkh his tic
tim while she agouized in pain result
ing from his
sault
cowardly and brutal as-
Mr Fischer Is quite correct iu assert
ing that they do not buy or sell slaves
in South Africa It is a very
to make The same may be said
of the Btates iatey in rebellion against
tbe United Sates But what X eroin
the South under the old system every
endured euch hardships as areiLnicted
upon the victims of the chain gain sys
tem of the South which is only slavery
under anew name Slavery exists in
S A despite the fact that it has not
received the sanction of law as it ex
lata here It ia i emitted not in a
specific form perhaps but it is none
the less slavery We do not treat them
as our equa 8 cirrie wih it a deeper
significance than
surface
is apparent on the
An editorial in the Lagos Weekly K fj
ord under date My 25 1900 comment
ing upon an editorial in The Colored
American under the caption The
British and the Boers and which it re
produces entire says The cruelty
praoticed unon the natives br ihe
B jers has become proverbial and they
have courted the chastisement they are
oow r ceivmj by the abuseof the power
with which they were tntrusted over
the natives Man propose but there
19 a God who disposes and BatioDS
like individuals are Eurject to the Di
yme law of retributive justice wbich
never fails and is inexorably exact
It is to bd hoped that when the war U
ended Great Britain iwill rise to an
adequate conception of the higher pur
poses of her mission and introduce in
South Africa a system of government
which will eneure for all m n without
any exception f quality of rigrts nd
equality of treatment This is what
the natives of South Africa do not en
joy upder Boer domination because as
Mr Fisher said to the women at The
Hague We do not treat them as equals
but as Inferiors This admission is m
itself all that is needed to prove that
these pious Bible reading and praying
Dutchmen are as full of race prejudice