The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-10-24

burghers. MY country is in danger
| My God will look after me in time Of
trouble" Everything in the oligarch'
ical possessive case.
Kruger does not hate the Uitlander
| qua Uitlander, as do many of his burg
hers. He has found them too useful
! his Nellmaplus, his Vorstmann, ano
his Lippertje, to do that But he rec
ognizes their genius as opposed to the
! dull sloth of the Boer, and he fe2rs
greatly accordingly. Kruger is a
Copper" or "hard-shell' Lutheran
and Is absolutely sincere in his belief
that the Beers are the chosen people
of the Almighty. Dom Paul was at one
time (before the retrocessiop) in the
service of the British government. He
I was entitled to draw salary at the rate
of G20O a year. He probably thought
himself worthy of better hire, and for
some months drew at the rate of $500
year. He was called to book by the
authorities, but refunded nothing
| then or since. The very severe letters
written to him at the time by Sir
Melmoth Osborn are still extant.
! Again, only a very few years ago, af-
| berg, in the Cape Colony, to meet Sir
Henry Loeb NOW Lord Loch), our
then governor, in conference the very
outspoken Pretoria newspaper, Land
EN- Volk, accused Mr.. Kruger of taking
payment of sum of money for trav-
cling expenses, calculated upon the
usual travelling allowance of so much
per day, as if he had travelled from
Pretoria to Colesberg by cart, as would
formerly have been his wont. AS a
matter of act. he had travelled by
railway, and had paid nothing for his
fare.
Mr.. Marals, the editor, was prosecu-
ted criminally for libel The president
did not give evidence. The editor was
acquitted, The money was not paid
back, and his Honor tactly admitted
the theft of the money.
The president receives a salary of
$1,000 year, and $500 year for
coffee money" which is equivalent to
entertaining allowance" He never
entertains, and lives on the $780, Out
of the $1,000 year he saves at least
100000 annually, which is clever finan-
cling, When asked why he did not con-
tllpule W LIE IlldIy Clldlltl6S lUI poor
Uitlanders and Beers he said, speak
ing of the Uitlanders-"Nie Allemag-
tig die keres is allemaal rijk; hulle
kan betaal' which means, mo, by
Jove! the fellows are all rich. they can
pay"
General Piet Joubert (Silem Piet) is
perhaps the second most prominent
figure among the Beers. Long headed,
shrewd, cold, and calculating, he is al
so by no means typical Boer. He has
paid two or three visits to England,
and perhaps is one of the three or four
in the inner government circles in Pre-
toria who realize what war with Eng
land will mean. Still, he in no way
lacks physical COURAGE; he has shown
that time and again. He is essential
ly time-server, trimmer. a sitter
on-the-fence When he contested The
presidential election against Kruger
no one took his candidature very seri-
ously. He was SO obviously put up as
a vote-splitter to ensure Krueers re-
turn,
His religious tenets are not obtru-
sive and he has never been found out
in any very bad financial transactions.
AS a general in the field he is cool and
clever, and a thoroughly expert expo
nent of Boer fighting tactics, which are
mainly of the "sniping'' order. He has
now gone TO the Natal border at Volks-
rust; the next best Boer commander,
Cronje, of Doornkop fame, being on the
Marioo frontier, towards Mafeking.
A man who in quiet, unostenta-
tlous, but deadly effective way ha >
done as much as anybody to engender
bitter feelings, between Boer and Uit-
lander is the present chief justice of
the Transvaal, Judge Gregorowski.
An Orange Free State man. Of Rus
so-Polish extraction, he was specially
brought to Pretoria, indicted into the
1ites of full burghership, and elevated
to the bench, for the purpose of SEN
tenclng the sixty odd reform prison
efs after the jameson raid No Trans
vaal judge-Kotze, Ameshoff. Morice,
or Jorissen-could be trusted to be suf-
fciently severe, Draconian, Jeffreys-
like. So they imported Gregorowslti. |
Right well he did his work Not only
We're the sentences terribly drastic, but
the method of the manin delivering the
death sentence afterwards commute,O