Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-11-09

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and there they remained with such
degree of civilization as contented
them and disturbed no one else till
the discovery of the diamond fields
in Kimberley and the gold reefs of
the Witwatersrand Quite likely
they were not as polished ia their
manners or as refined IN their ways
of life as the English gentleman who
figured in the Cleveland street scan
dial; possibly they were not more
honest than the guinea pigs of British
nobility who sold their names to
swindlipg corporation; or the COM
rRdes of the prince of Wales who
cheated at cards; but they were hardy.
self reliant and prone to the enjoy
ments of domestic life.
It may be that the government of
Paul Kruger is narrow, proscriptive
and intolerabIe: but if the Beers are
satisfied it Is no concern of England .
There are other governments which
The portraits OF Dom Paul shows that
ne has 40 more beauty than without
candle would go dark to bed The
cnt of his Whlskers is not up-to-date,
his clothes do not fit, his countenance
betrays ignorance, craft and obstinacy :;
but he is the legitimate ruler of
sovereign state as much as William
Mckinley or Kaiser Wilhelm. It is
said that Mrs Kruger cooks for the
family, makes the bed and waits OH
| guests at the table. But none of
these characteristics and conditions
menaced Anglo-Saxon civilization or
threatened the stability of the British
empire until 1885, when gold was
discovered at Johannesburg.
The SIMPLE truth is that the real
grievance of England against the
Beers is not that they are illiterate,
sbolid and unprogresslve, but that the
rransv&al contains the richest gold
mines In the world, aud English
miners, capitalists and Spectators
want to control them. Whenever g
weak or feehle power has anything
shat England wants and refuses to
surrender, that is of Itself casus beiIl,
and the plunder, robbery and extor-
ton that follow are always in the in
leres5 OF civilization. In this conse-
Grated nsme she built up the Indian
empire by series OF lnconceIvabie
barbaritiee, whose horrors ar narrated
III the speeches of Burk and Hastin gs
will forever shock the conscience of
mankind Upon the same pretence
she forced the famous opium traffic
on China, and is now engaged II dis
Numbering that ancient domain to
advance civilization and at the same
time secure control of the Suez canal
and protect patent land holders She
bombarded Alexandria and burned it
IN the night. England is the bully
and rufian and coward among na-
tions. She never fights her equals
or on equal terms.
She never tenders an ultimatum to
the strong. With them she negoti-
ates and compromises and dIckers
and squirms and yields.
She claims to have been the con-
querer of Napoleon, but che never
dared to meet him single handed on
any field, and had it not been for her
Prussian allies would have been de-
feated at Waterloo.
She fought Russia in the Crlmea
with the help of the French; but give
her cripple or baby 8s an antogon-
ist and she is dsuntless and undenia-
BILE. She bullied and insulted and
dominated over this country till we
thrashed her in two ware on land and
sea.
During the rebellion she omitted
no effort to destroy the unicn. She
threatened she North with war and
treated the South with promises of
recognition. She equipped fleet of
pirates that swept the seas of our
commerce from the effects of whose
depredations we have not yet re-
covered, and then paid S15,OOOOO0
rather than fight Cleveland slapped
her in the face in his Venezuelan
message end che accepted the insult
and submitted to arbitration.
It would seem as il the greatest
kingdom in the world could afford to
be magnanimous IN lis differences
with SO small an adversary as the
Boer republic and find some am1cable