The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-03-05
HAVEN MORNING JOURNAL COURIER MONDAY MARCH 1900
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I said that I thought that he was go
 ing too far.
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 my private face-my public faca Is tht
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 What would you dor asked him, ii
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 Kruger puffed away augGiiy, and ther said with great earnestness.
 There is a point beyond which my
 people will not permit me to go. I a.. to them as the patriarch Abraham, anG so by the Grace of God, will continue
 to be-
 Are you preparing for war?"I asked kim.
 "The god of battles always protect those who are imbued With his spirit" said Kruger. "Ie vii protect the Roers. They are his people. They live by pas- ture not by industry. The time may come when they will be called upon to defend their homes. Englands might is not her right, and it is our right which will become our might God will grant us a way of escape from our enemies, even if we have to take up arms in a I sea of trouble.
 How can you sit here and take such heavy revenues out of the English peo- pie of Johannesburg? I asked.
 A LEGACY OF VICE. God has put 1t into my heart" said he, "that those men are not worthy of consideration from me. They are there on sufferance, and when they have made what money they want they are at liberty to go away and leave us noth- ing but their vices. Why should they unsettle this happy land of pilgrims ?"
 You have no right to all the money you are collecting from the Outlanders," said.
 That's matter for my Government to take care of, and not for outsiders to meddle with" he said
 Then l spoke about the educational laws, and Kruger said with some asperi- ty: If we give up to them on education they will soon push us into the sea. All we want of Great Britain said he, with great earnestness, lis free port at Delagoa Bay. If you will influence your Givernment to give us Delagoa Bay I will undertake to make peace in Ireland between the English and the Irish by becoming yiceroy. I know, from what I have done here, that I could make the people in Ireland sink all their differences. Would to God. that your people to do this and I will use Get your people to do this and will use my potent influence to make the people of this republic and the people of Ire land happy and united. I could solve even greater problems than the Irish question by the might of my will and the right of my power I wish" he continued, that you could hear me preach on my forthcoming seventy second birthday. My text will be from Romans, twelfth chapter, first verse. Then I shall deliver myself our true conception of what we are entitled to as people, and If you could hear me preach you would understand our spirit better. If l could get the English peo- pie to understand, me we would have peace, but as long as my flock is haraes- ed I am like q man watching at night for q burglar. I pray that Chamber lain may have a better insight into my righteous motives. Are you so bound" he asked me suddenly that you can become mediator between our peo- pie and yours?"
 Then in jocular way he altered to pay me f100 month If I would act as mediator. He said I would have to be- come Dutch subject.
 l told him that such thing was im- possible. After our talk finished, the President introduced me to Mrs. Kruger, who is typical Dutch woman. Mrs. Kruger gave me two punches of roses, which, by the way bloom in Pretoria In the summer time every six weeks. She said that they were given as a souvenir, and, in the event of anything happening to me on my way back to my native land, they could bs blaced on my coffin as testimony that. one Dutch woman 1 had sympathetic soul and wanted to show her willingness to euccor me in | the absence of those nearest and dear est to me.
 That ended my talk with President [ Kruger, and, as I said before, he is a queer mixture. While he is talking, rom his nose up he reminds you of heaven itself, but from his nose down. when he rants and roars, which Is often, he gives you the impress ,ion that he could cheerfully consign ,ou to everlasting punishment.