CHANTS
FOR THE
BOER
By
JOAQUIN MILLER
“And whether on the scaffold high,
Or in the battle’s van,
The fittest place for man to die
Is where he dies for man.”
San Francisco
The Whitaker & Ray Company
(Incorporated)
1900
Copyright, 1900
by
The Whitaker & Ray Company
(Incorporated)
CONTENTS.
Find here not one ill word for brave old England;my first, best friends were English. But for herpolicy, her politicians, her speculators, what man witha heart in him can but hate and abhor them? England’sbest friends to-day are those who deplore thisassault on the farmer Boers, so like ourselves a centuryback. Could any man be found strong enoughto stay her hand with sword or pen in this mad hour?That man would deserve her lasting gratitude. Thisfeeling of abhorrence holds in England as well ashere. Take for example the following from herablest thinker to a friend in Philadelphia:
“I rejoice that you and others are bent on showingthat there are some among us who think the nationalhonor is not being enhanced by putting down theweak. Would that age and ill health did not preventme from aiding.
“No one can deny that at the time of the JamesonRaid the aim of the Outlanders and the raiders wasto usurp the Transvaal Government, and he must bewi