Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1901 — Cockran for Free Boers. [ARTICLE]

Cockran for Free Boers.

Chicago dispatch: Before nearly 4,000 people W. Bourke Cockran, at the Auditorium last night, declared that independence for the Boers surely was coming; but that peace might be restored and the suffering in the concentration camps ended, all the eloquence of the orator was directed to a plea for intervention by the United States. He asserted that the peace of America, the future of the Monroe doctrine and the constitution of England were endangered by the prolongation of the struggle. “Let the President of the United States but utter the word,” declared the speaker, "and the war will end oh the day his action is taken.” In response to his appeal for funds to aid the Boer prisoners in the South African military camps, cash and pledges aggregating $6,000 were secured.