Reynolds on the Warpath.

Manawatu Herald, 31 December 1904, Page 2

Reynolds on the Warpath.

In a recent issue oi Reynolds’ News-' paper, the following rather scurrillous paragraph appears:—It is only with a feeling of scorn that we notice the foul attack made by a contemptible journalist in the columns of the “ New •Zealand Times” upon the memory of that great patriot and hero, the late President Kruger. One can only account for such a discreditable outburst by thinking that the poor scribbler is a wretched creature who cannot call his soul his own, and who has to crawl in filth in order to live. “It disclosed him,” says this assassin of dead men’s character, “as a sordid self-seeker, an ignorant fanatic, not many removes from the Mahdis and Mad Mullahs oi the Soudan and Somaliland.” This thing with a pen in his hand, has probably forgotten the horrible murder of the. Soudanese to the number of nearly i2 ; ooo, under the generalship of Lord Kitchener, to which Mr Winston Churchill, M.P., in his “ River Campaign,” bears witness. The reference to the Mad Mullah is equally unfortunate, as the Mad Mullah defeated the British arms, as the Boers did, over and over again, and finally compelled them to leave Somaliland. Kruger is further stated to have been “ a broken-hearted, baffled exile, disappointed in his ambitions, and robbed of all human sympathy,” a person little worse than Napoleon the usurper, poisoner, and butcher-in-chief of Europe. What about the 20,000 Boer women and children murdered in the-English concentration camps ? When we remember the terrible defeats inflicted by the Boers upon the British, up even until a few days before the British commanders besought a treaty of peace, the grotesque vapourings of this ink-slinger only have the effect of calling attention again to the humiliations in arms which we suffered from the peasants of the Transvaal at which all the world was laughing at the time. But what can be expected from an alleged journalist in a land where the ignorant and vulgar expublican Seddon can be Prime Minister? New Zealand, the Bankrupt Colony, living on perpetual loans from this country, the last of which could not be floated on the British market; New Zealand, that sends poisoned buck rabbits over for the consumption of the millions of half starved human beings living in savagery in the mean streets of Great Britain. Compared with such a population the Boers were gods, models of cleanliness and health, virtue, manliness, and capacity. For the good name of England we repudiate with indignation the nonsence written by this verminous scribe, whose fellow colonists killed the Boers for the benefit ot alien mine owners and Chow slaves.