The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-22

contributing three-fourths of the coun-
/ trY's revenue.
These are the conditions the English
residents have withstood for thirteen
years, every effort TO get relief having
failed. Recently the home government
was petitioned for redress. and I want
to say right here that it is ungrateful
of the American press, in view of the
sympathy between the two countries
growing out OF the Spanish American
war, TO condemn the course of Eng
land in the Transvaal. England has
always taken the part of her subjects,
and that's what She is doing now. She
has other people in South Africa. and
if the Beers are allowed to insult her
fiagrantly as they have done, she cer-
tainly would lose prestige with her
other colonies, and she might lose all
her possessions there, in fact
A Patriarchal People.
The Beers. are ignorant and live as
the ancients. As l have said, the aver
age Foer scarcely ever sees a paper, but
confines himself to his Bible and prayer
book. They are fatalists TO a great ex-
tent and have limitless conceit. 1 re-
member going TO Beers house shortly
after the earlier trouble with England
for Boer viii give you a shelter,
there being no such thing as a hotel
Ia NAiN QUILL S--cillN III the GDQl 81 VI
our conversation he asked me If I
wasn't ashamed of being an English
man. No 1 replied, and then l told
him it was magnanimous of Mr..
Gladstone to give in to the country
England could so easily have beaten.
He nearly turned me out of the house.
He said that the Beers had beaten
England into submission, and that they
could have conquered the English ma
tion-all the British Isles-had they SO
desired. This was the effect of Glad
stones magnanimity.
The Boer likes great lot of land and
cultivateS but little He will live fif-
teen miles from his nearest neighbor
and. desiring social recreation, will
take his family to a neighbours home
and spending day in smoking and
horses is discussed, and at shutdown
he villa return. feeling quite dissipated
after his Sojourn in society. The Boer
cannot understand man who does not
use tobacco, and it is an insult to re-
fuse his pouch when he offers it. The
same is true of coffee. The beverage
is kept on draught in every home all
day, and is served lukewarm to every
visitor
1 once asked a Boer, who owned 80
600 acres of land and cultivated only
$50. why he did not get some American
agricultural implements and utilize the
remainder of his farm inferring that
his plough was old-fasllioned and in
adequate to the work.
Faith In Bible Illustrations.
oh he replied. the plough the
children of Israel and my grandfather
and father used is good enough for
me" ] asked how he knew the chill
dreil of Israel had used that kind of a
plough. and he answered that he'd seen
pictures of it in his Bible.
The Boer is as conservative and nom
progressive in his religion as he is in
his politics and habits. Every three
months the Beers from far and near
gather at the nearest "dorp" (vil1age). |
which has the proud distinction of pos
sessing a "kerk" Church, and there !
celebrate the 'nachtmaal." This means |
literally, night meal of Lords supper,
and for three days the ''predikant'' |