Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1899 — BOER RIOT IN DUBLIN. [ARTICLE]

BOER RIOT IN DUBLIN.

Police Break Up a Meeting Which la Called to Score England. Police suppressed'a mass meeting of Boer sympathizers in Dublin Sunday. Heads were broken, several Transvaal and Irish flags were destroyed, and many arrests made. Maud Gonne, the socalled “Irish Joan of Arc,” and James Connolly, the Irish republican, drove in a wagonette to the place appointed for the meeting, which was attended by a large crowd. Mr. Connolly tried to speak, but was prevented by the police, he wagonette then made a tour of the street, the crowd rapidly increasing, cheering for the Boers, singing “God Save Ireland” and “We’ll hang Joe Chamberlain on a sour apple tree,” and using insulting expressions against the queen, the empire and the army.

During the meeting Michael Davktt said: “All Irishmen rejoice in the triumphs of the Boers. No power in Europe would now fear Great Britain, except, perhaps, the prince of Monaco.” Mr. Redmond said: “Mr. Chamberlain deserves not doctors, but executioners.” Ultimately a resolution, proposed by Mr. Davitt, was carried denouncing the war and calling upon the powers, particularly the United States, to take steps to insure the independence of the Boer republic.