The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1899-12-22
DUTCH oRIalN OF TIE BoERs.
Their Kinsmen Were me First settlers Of
Manhattan Island.


ETsnhattan Island
Reminded necessarily Of their kin
ship with the English, Americans are
not often asked to remember their
kinship with the Beers. And yet the
tie is a close one The Boer is q trans
planted Dutchman, and the influence
Of Holland IN shaping the destiny of
this country is ranked by historians as
second only to that Of Britain.
In contemplating the TransTaal war
it is veil not to forgot what the Dutch
did for America.
The Pilgrim Fathers, having been
driven out Of England, found a refuge
in Holland until they sailed for the
New World.
Holland was in that age the cradle Of
religious liberty. It was one Of the
worlds great states, and its people had
won greater freedom than those OF
England.
During their sojourn there the re-
fugees learned to admire and love
many Dutch institutions, and they car
ried these feelings with them across
the Atlantic.
In the very foundation Of the Am
erican commonwealth there was q
stratum Of the elements that are pres
ent IN the fighting Beers.
Hendrix Hudson, when he sailed his
boat, the Half Moon, through the Mar
rows, in 1909, was, though English him
self, in the service Of the Dutch East
India company.
To Holland, therefore, belongs the
honor Of the discovery Of the Hudson
river and what is now the port of New
York.
England claimed all the territory on
the Atlantic coast from the Bay Of
Fundy to Florida, but did not oppose
the colonization Of the territory dis
covered by Hudson.
Hudson named the region New Ne
therland and established trading posts
on Manhattan Island and at what is
now Albany.
! The first Dutch eoIonists arrived in
1923 and settled on Manhattan Island,
which they named New Amsterdam
Holland claimed all the territory from
the Delaware to the Connecticut.
To stimulate colonization the Dutch
/ West India company offered q traot 16
miles along one bank Of any river or
eight miles along both banks to any
body who would transport so cOlonists
from the old country.
Among these brave pioneers we're the
forefathers Of many who now look upon
themselves as the aristocracy Of New
York.
In just this way did the Dutch col
onize South Africa and founded the
nation that is now fighting desperately
for its freedom.
So that there is cOunsinship Of race
between many in the 400" and the
stern farmers who obey Dom Paul.
But intermarriage on this side has
modified the original type, whereas the
Beers in their jealous isolation have
preserved the pure, strong, rugged race.
In the purely Dutch community of
| New Netherland existed institutions
which afterward came to be regarded
as peculiar to the New England states.
The ideas that the Pilgrim fathers
} had imbibed in the Netherlands were
brought to the New World independ-
emily by the Dutch. themselves, thus
Strengthening the influence Of their
race on the future Of the greatest ma
ton on earth.
Peter Stuyvesant, governor Of New
Netherlsnd, in order to put a stop to
the encroachments Of the Swedish col
onists, made war on them and conquer
ed the Delaware region for the Dutch.
Hollands empire in America was
wiped out in 1864, when four English
warships compelled Peter StuyYessnt
to haul down his flag.
But the influence Of the Dutch in
forming this nation can never be wiped
out
One is reminded Of it to-day by the
names Of persons and places-such
names as Van Wyek, Spuyten, DuyviI,
Vanderbilt.
The proudest families in New York
are proud Of their Dutch blood and
| Dutch names.
And Boer is q transplanted Dutch
man
New Through Pullman Service Between
Denver and st. Louis.
On June Is, the Great Rock Island
Route iuaugurated through Pullman
Sleepers between Denver and st. LOHis