How the "Brutal British Soldiers" behave in South Africa : A Reply to Mr. merman. 1900.

For Sale is a Full Page removed from "The Graphic, September 15th, 1900," showing a Drawing by C. E. Fripp, for "How the "Brutal British Soldiers" Behave in South Africa :  A Reply to Mr. Merriman."

Our Artist writes :- "In a speech delivered at the House of Assembly, Cape Town, on July 24, by Mr. Merriman, who has distinguished himself by an ardent defence of rebellion- when the rebels are Afrikanders-occured this sentance : 'But to think that the days of Claverhouse should have been brought about in South africa.'  This grandiloquent phraseology was in reference to the administration of Martial law in those districts of the Cape Colony where the innocent rebels had robbed and destroyed the property of their neighbours who had not allowed themselves to 'be compelled to be rebels,' to quote the expression used by Mr. Merriman and the other Bond apologists for their friends and rebels.  I read this precious oratorical effort whilst at work on this sketch, which shows the characteristic behaviour of the 'Brutal' British soldiery to the Dutch during this campaign.  Our 'licentious mercenaries' are engaged, as i witnessed very frequently, in the dastardly practice of purchasing provisions at the farmhouse and bloodthirstily bargaining for geese with the terrified inhabitants.  As the British public have few opportunities for following politics in the Colony, I may add that the disingenuous excuses made for Afrikander rebels can be gauged at their proper level when made by the same man, Mr. Merriman, who, on the suppression of an insignificant native rebellion, the Langsberg Rebellion in 1895, advocated hanging as the proper punishment for rebels- when the rebels were natives.

Condition is Very Good.