convictions and intentions and was not
afraid of the outcry of the civilized world, she would be much shorter
and quicker in her work with the Boers. She would surround the
concentration camps of Boer women and children with machine guns and
pump into the mass of humanity until that heroic race was extinct. But
she prefers the safer and more veiled, but equally infamous, method of
slow starvation and disease, of banishment and imprisonment in distant
countries to extinguish a race which she hates because she knows she has
always done them evil and wrong and because they excel her own people in
morals, military intelligence and courage.

She hated our love of independence as she hated Ireland's and it was
merely an accident that she did not make of us an Ireland. When she
deals with an independence-loving people she makes of them either an
Ireland or a United States. And that is the question in South Africa.
Shall there be an Ireland in South Africa or a United States of South
Africa?

It is most dismal to read of Englishmen suggesting for the Boers the
same old methods that were used in Ireland, "colonization," stamping out
the native language, stamping out the love of independence, banishment,
depriving of weapons, the greatest severity, no mercy. The Irish were
deprived of their weapons, even of their shot guns. They were forbidden
to have carving knives above a certain length or horses above a certain
value. They were "colonized" and their lands taken away from them and
given to Englishmen over and over again, in exactly the same manner that
Cecil Rhoads now recommends for the Boers. Measures to exterminate their
language and their Roman Catholic religion were taken over and over
again and were of such relentless severity that no reasonable man could
doubt that both the language and the religion would disappear within a
generation.

Cromwell went among them with scythes, bullets and Bibles and the war
cry of his soldiers was "Jesus and no quarter." The town of Drogheda
surrendered to him on his promise that their lives should be spared.

"But no sooner had they laid down their arms than Cromwell took
back his word and slaughtered every man, woman and child in the
city, so that five days are said to have been spent in this ghastly
massacre. At Wexford the same miserable scenes of treachery and
butchery were enacted." (Gregg's Irish History, p. 64.)

Very few educated people in this countr