The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1899-11-25
GENERAL JoUBERT.

Next to Dom Paul, the most popular
man in the little Boer Republic is Gen
eral Joubert, the military commander
of the Boer forces General Joubert is
not. as is commonly supposed, of a
quarrelsome disposition, but believes in
/ peaceful arbitration rather than a re-
sort TO arms. He is vice president of
the Republic, and twice has been de-
feated by a small majority for the
Presidency, running in opposition to
| President Kruger
General Joubert holds much more lib
eral views concerning the Uitlander
franchise than President Kruger. He
believes that the applicant for privi-
/ leges should be put to a test of three or
four years fidelity to the country, plac
ing himself under oath to defend it in
/ peace or war. If, after that time, the
applicant has shown that he has been
| true to the national interests and it's
laws, General Joubert believes that the
Uitlander should enjoy equal rights
with the native burgher.
The diplomacy of General Joubert is
almost as much subject of comment
as that of President Kruger In fact,
there are numerous stories told of his
success in accomplishing many things
wherein Mr.. Kruger failed. Among
others, is an incident which occurred
| Immediately after the jameson raid,
and which will be given here exactly
as related by participant in the af-
, fair, who related the same to one of our
American travellers. The story illus
trates the generals method of dealing
with his own people.
Shortly after Jameson and his off
GERS We're brought to Pretoria, Presi-
dent Kruger called about twenty of the
Boer commanders to his house for a
consultation. The townspeople were
highly excited, and the presence of the
men who had tried to destroy the Re-
public aggravated their condition, so
that there were few calm minds in the
capital. President Kruger was deeply
affected by the seriousness of the events
of the days before, but counseled all
those present to be calm. There were
some in the gathering who advised that
jameson and his men should be shot
Immediately while one man loosely re-
marked that they should not be treated
so leniently, and suggested Enat a way
to make them suffer would be to cut off
their ears
"One of the men who was obliged to
leave the meeting gave this account to
the waiting throngs in the street, and a
few hours afterward the cable had car
ried the news to Europe and America,
with the result that the Beers were
called brutal and inhuman. President
Kruger used all his influence and elo-
quence to save the lives of the prison
ers and for a long time he was unsuc-
cessful in securing the least amount of
sympathy for jameson and his men.
1T was dawn when General Joubert
was won to the Presidents way of
thinking, and he continued the argu-
ment in behalf of the prisoners.
My friends he said, / will ask you
to listen patiently to me for several
minutes. 1 will tell you the story of
the farmer and the neighbor's dog. Sup
pose that near your farm lives a man
whose valuable dogs attack your sheep
and kill many. VIII you shoot the dogs
as soon as you see them, and in that
way make yourself liable for damages
greater than the value of the sheep that
were destroyed? Or will you catch the
dogs when you are able to do so and. |
carrying them to your neighbor say to |
him: II have caught your dogs; now |!
pay me for the damage they have done |
me, and they shall be returned to you" !
We have the neighbor's dogs in jail. |
What shall we do with them? -
The parable was effective, and the I
council OF war decided almost instantly |
to deliver the prisoners to the British /
government"