The evening times., 1899-10-28

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education taken the place of diplomacy
1t would, mayhap. have been a lengthy
process, but there is little'esoubt that il
would have been fficaeiou-eventualiy.
| The Boer is the spoiled child OF tie veldt
and his ignorance is SC. co.ossal. SO unim-
aginable by those who havec net lived with
him, that it seems sadder than sad to have
to punish him like naughty schoolboy.
pen dipped in the milk of human kind
ness would find it difficult TO write many
nice things about the Boer character.
rue. he is brave man, up to certain
point; hardy pioneer.Ia a devout man ac-
eording to his lights, which are woefully
dim, and patriot in the best sense OF the
| word. To these qualifications must. how
ever, in all fairness, be added that he is a
liar, a cheat, and a rogue, II he gets the
| chance; that his morals are. Of the lowest,
and that his word is not trustworthy.
Stephanus Johannes Pauius Kruger is
hardly a representative Boer. He is too
clever too sincere, and too stubborn. Kru-
ger is an old man now. He will be seven
ty-five next week. Not infirm in any
physical attribute, save a shortness OF
sight, which forces him to wear ungainly
Chinese goggles, he has fatal lack OF ap-
preciating political perspective case
hardened conservative. the least departure
from the order of things as they have been
sets him clamoring about the influx OF the
stranger and the swamping of his burghers
My country is in danger. Ny burghers
are liable to be outvoted. My God will
look after me in time OF trouble" Every
thing in the oligarchical possessive case.
Kruger's Money Matters.
Kruger does not hate the Outlander. qua
Outlander, as do many OF his burghers.
He has found them too useful. his Nellma-
Plus. his Vorstmann and his Lippertje, to
do that. But he recognizes their genius as
opposed to the dull sloth Of the Boer. and
he fears greatly accordingly. Kruger is a
"dopper" or hard SHELF Lutheran. and is
Is absolutely sincere in his belief that the
Beers are the chosen people OF the AL
mighty. Dom Paul was at one time tbe
fore the retrocession) in the service of the
British Government. He was entitled to
draw salary at the rate of e20o 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 moth
ing-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 after
he President had gone to Colesberg, in
the Cape Colony, TO meet Sir Henry Loeb
(now Lord Lochl. our then governor, In
conference. the very outspoken Pretoria
newspaper. Land en- Volk," accused Mr..
Kruger of taking payment of sum of
money for travelling 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 matter
of fact he had travelled by railway, and he
paid nothing for his fare.
Mr.. Marias. the editor, was prosecuted
criminally for libel. The President did not
give evidence. The editor was acquitted
The money was not paid. back, and his
honor tacitly admitted the theft of the
money.
The President receives a salary Of $1,000
a year and $500 year for coffee money
which is equivalent to entertaining al
lowance." He never entertains, and lives
on the $500. Out of tina 6 600 year he
saves at least f10,000 annually, which is
clever financiering. When asked why he
he did not contribute to the many chari-
ties for poor Outlanders and Beers, he
said. speaking Of the outlanders: Me, AL
lemagtig. die keres is allernaal rijk; hulle
kan betaal," which means. NO, by Jove,
the fellows are all rich;t they can pay"
Gen. Piet Joubert (Sliem PieU is per-
haps the second most prominent figure
among the Beers. Long-heaied shrewd.
cold, and calculating. he is also by no
means a typical Boer. He has paid two
or three visits to England. and perhaps is
one of the three or four in the inner gov
eminent circles in Pretoria who realizes
what war with England would mean. Still,
he in no way lacks physical courage; he
has shown that time and again. He is es-
sentially time server, trimmer. sit
ter on the fence. When he contested the
Presidential election against Kruger, no
one took his candidature very seriously, he
was SO obviously put up as a vote splitter
to ensure kruger's return.
His religious tenets are not obtrusive,
and he bas never been found out in any
bad financial transactions. AS a general in
the field he is cool and clever. and thor
oughly expert exponent Of Boer fighting
tactics which are mainly of the ''sniping''
order. He has now gone to the Natal bor-
der at Volksrust, the next best Boer COM
mander, Cronje. Of Doornkop fame, be-
ing on the Marico frontier, toward Mafek-
ing.
Judge GreEorowski's Power.
A man who in quiet, unostentatious. but
deadly effective way has done as much as
anybody to engender bitter feelings between
Boer and Outlander is the present chief
Justice of the Transvaal, Judge Gregorow-
ski.
An Orange Free State man. of Russo,
Polish extraction, he was specially brought
to Pretoria, inducted into the rites OF full
and elevated to the bench for
the purpose of sentencing the sixty-odd Re-
form prisoners after the Jameson raid. No
Transvaal judge-Kotze, Ameshoff, Morice
DR. Jorissen-could be trusted to be suff-
GENTLY severe-Draconian, Jeffreys like So |