The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-16
SOME BOER LEADERS.
Kruger and Joubert Tco
Shrewd and Clever to
Be Representative.

of diplomacy. 1t would, mayhap, have
been a lengthy process, but there is lit
tie doubt that it would have been eff
cacious-eventually.
The Boer is the spoiled child of the
veldt, and his ignorance is so colossal,
so unimaginable by those who have not
| lived with him, that it seems sadder
than sad to have to punish him like a
naughty schoolboy.
A pen dipped in the milk of human
kindness would find it difficult to write
many nice things about the Boer char
acter. True, he is a brave man, up to
a certain point; a hardy pioneer, a de-
! vout man according to his lights, which
are wofully dim, and a patriot in the
best sense of the word To these quail
| ifications must however, in all fairness,
be added that he is a liar, a cheat and
a rogue, if he gets the chance; that his
morals are Of the lowest and that his
word is not trustworthy.
| Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger is
hardly representative BOer. He is too
| clever, too sincere and too stubborn.
! Kruger is an old man now. He will be
rs next week. Not infirm in any physi-
cal attribute, save a shortness of sight,
which forces him to wear ungainly Chi
nese goggles, he has a fatal lack of APP
Ipreciating political perspective. A case
hardened conservative, the least de-
Iparture from the order of things as they
have been sets him clamorng about the
influx of the stranger and the swamp
| ing of his burghers. my country is in
danger My burghers are liable to be
outvoted. My God will look after me
| in time of trouble" Everything in the
IoHgarchical possessive case.
KRUGER'S MONEY MATTERS.
Kruger does not hate the OutIander,
! qua Outlander, as do many of his
Durghers. He has found them too use
ful his Nellmapius, his Vorstmann and
his Lippertje, to do that. But he rec
oSnlzes their genius as opposed to the
dull sloth of the Boer, and he fears
greatly accordingly. Kruger is a "dop-
per or hard SHELF Lutheran. and is
absolutely sincere in his belief that the
Beers are the chosen people of the AL
mighty. Dom Paul was at one time
| NpeIore the retrocession) in the service
OF the British government He was en-
Titled to draw salary at the rate of
600 a year. He probably thought him
self worthy of better hire, and for some
months drew at the rate of G 300 a year.
he was called to book by the authori-
tles, put refunded nothing-then or
since. The very severe letters written
TO him at the time by Sir Melmoth Os-
born are still extant
AGAIN, only very few years ago, af-
ter the president had gone TO Coles
| perg, in the Cape Colony, to meet Sir
Henry Loeb NOW Lord Loch) our then
governor, in conference, the very out
spoken Pretoria newspaper, Land en-
Nolk, accused Mr. Kruger of taking.
payment of sum of money for travel
ing expenses, calculated upon the usual
travelling allowance of so much per day.
as II he had travelled from Pretoria to
Colesperg by cart, as would formerly
nave been his wont. AS a matter Of
Iact' ne had Travelled by railway. and
he paid nothing for his fare.
MI Marias, the editor, was prosecut-
ca crllnlnally for libel. The president
old not give evidence The editor was
acquitted. The money was not Maid
back, and his honor tacitly admitted
the theft of the money.
Inc president receives a salary of
5fUoo year and $500 a year for 1cof-
Zee money" which is equivalent to ZEN
PERTAINING allowance" He never en-
tertains, and lives on the $500 out
o. the $1,000 a year, he saves at least
3lO,UUO annually, which is clever finan-
clerlng. When asked why he did not
contribute to the many charities for
poor Outlanders and Beers, he said.
speaking of the Outlanders: "Nie. Al
lemagtig! die kere's is allemaal riilx
MULE kan betaal,' which means, "No.
by Jove! the fellows are all rich; they
can pay"
Gen. Piet Joubert (Sliem Piet) is per
maps the second most prominent figure
among the Beers Long-headed, shrewd,
cola and calculating, he is also bv 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 government circles in. Preto-
ria who realizes what war with Eng
land would mean. Still, he in no way
lacks physical courage; he has shown
that time and again. He is essentially
a tlme-seryer, trimmer, a sitter on
the fence. When he contested the
presidential election against Kruger, no
one took his candidature very serious
~, he was so obviously put up as a vote
| splitter to insure Krugers return.
his religious tenets are not obtrusive
ana he has never been found out in any
bad financial transactions. AS a gen
eral in the field, he is cool and clever.
and thoroughly expert exponent of
Boer fighting tactics, which are main
~ OF the SHIPPING order. He has
! now gone to the Natal border, at Volks-
rust, the next best Boer commander,
Cronje, of Doornkop fame, being on the
Marco frontier, toward Matching.
JUDGE GREGOROWsKTS POWER.
A man who in quiet, transformations
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 Trans
Vaal, Judge Gregorowski.
An Orange Free STATE man, of Russo
Polish extraction, he was specially
brought to Pretoria, INDICTED into the
rites of full burghership and elevated
to the bench for the purpose of sentence
ing the sixty-odd reform prisoners after
the Jameson raid. No Transvaal Judge
-Kotze Ameshoff, Morice or Jorissen-
could be trusted to be sufficiently severe
-Draconian, Jeffreys like. So they i'm
ported GregOrowski. Right well he did
his work. Not only were the sentences
terribly drastic, but the method of the
man in delivering the death sentences
(afterward commuted), and his trick
cry IN permitting a pleading of guilty
to certain counts of the Indictment.
made the final scene at the trial one of
the most terribly affecting ever wit
messed in court of justice.
The Transyaal state secretary, Mr..
Reitz, formerly president of the Orange
Free State. where he succeeded but in
no way prof1ted by the example of the
late lamented President Brand. Is a
pathetic figure. Old beyond his years
senile almost, suffering from an incur
able disease-at the beck and call and
entirely under the thumb of Kruger. he
signs documents put before him with
out reading their contents, or if reading
them, not understanding what they are
about A shiftless politician, not rich.
as are others in high office because he
came to the Transvaal too late. and
most of the piclIings were picked Be
sides. he is passing honest and alrnnst