Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Dr. Livingstone's Experiences With the Boers: Dedicated to English Copperheads, German and Other Continental Crocodiles
One of the strangest paradoxes of this age is the Wide departure of political terms from their original meaning. For over two hundred years Liberals were considered the friends oi'the oppressed. Liberty, equality, and fraternity was the shibboleth of the French revolutionists. Liberals fought against the despotism of the church and state. Disestablish ment and Catholic emancipation was the cry of o'connell in Ireland and Macaulay in Scotland, Wilberforce advocated with mighty voice the abolition of slavery in all British dominions. Now behold the bastard liberalism of Great Britain advocating the rlght of an ignorant bigoted Dutch oliarchy to ride rough shod over, not only the black popu lation of South Africa but also over' English. Scotch, Jews, Germans, Americans and French who happen to go to South Africa in these latter'days. Now I deny 1in'toto the right of any man to any more of the earth's surface than is necessary for his own use. The faet of a Dutchman going to South Africa 200 years ago does not give him a particle of right to any more of the soil of South Africa than he has under the plough than the man that goes there in 1902. I deny the right of any man to ten square miles in England, Ireland Scotland, South Africa or Canada while other men have not a square yard. If we have a right to go to China and dictate. To the Chinaman at the mouth of the cannon how he will'treat our missionaries and merchants, the Chinaman ought to have equal rights to come to Canada.
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