The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1900-01-13

Eighteenth Having demonstrated
againgst these things for many years
Ia vain, aud having received frequent
promises Of reform, which were
n ,ver kept anl never meant
TO be, number Of foreign residents, I'M
cluding more Americans ia proportion
to their total number, than OF any other
nationality, conspircd together to com
pei these reforms to be granted by force
o. arms.Thry collected rifles, gnnpowder
etc. but never made any use OF them
AID never committed any overtact. Tdeir
oifenses were such as could not have
been punished in the United States by
more thau short term ot otimprisonmenl
or fines not exceeding $1,000, They
neither planrcd nor desired to become a
British colony.
Nineteenth-rhc conspiracy being
discovered before theconspirators carried
it out 30 Of them, including six Ameti-
cans. we're arrested, east into in
di,crlnabiy filthy jail, and informed
that unless they pleaded guilty they
would all bc banged. but that il they
did plead guilty tley would he let off
with fines
Iwenteth--lIeing brought into court
they were charged With an onense
which, by the express statute law Of
Boerdom, was punishable with nothing
more ilAn short term ot imprison-
ment. lIriug assured 10y the I'oer pros
ecuting officers that they would receive
no greater sentence than this, aud would
be- allowed to escape with fines If they
pleaded guilty, they did 50 plead ;
although, as to many Of them, the Of
tense could never have been legally
proven.
Twenty. y.Grst--No judge ;hen on tile
bench being quite unscrupulous enough
10 serve Mr.. Kruger's turn he imported
an utterly inscriptions judge, named
Gregosowski. This judge publicly stated
that he came for the express purpose Of
OF making it hot for the Outlanders.
After the prisoners had all pleaded
guilty, this judge announced that, as to
the four leaders, he should not sentence
them under the statute law, bus would
resort TO the unwrtten law Of the TWns-
vaal, which prescribed death for such an
ofense. Accordingly, lac sentenced these
four lone Of whom was n distinguished
American, and probably the ablesi
mining engineer IN the world to death,
aud all the others TO various terms OF
imprisonment aud heavy tines.
Twenty.second - Even the Dutcl set
tiers OF South Africa being Mortified at
this sentenced, and pouring by hundreds
into Pretoria to remonstrnte against IL,
Mr.. Kruger graciously took the matter
into consideration, but announced that
his religious scruples forbade that he
should commute the death sentences
into fines, because such fines would be
be "the price OF blood and MS revcr-
euce for his dear Lord Jesus forbade
that he should be less scrupu'ous than
the priests Of Jerusalem.
TNenty-thrd-Thc pious Beers there.
fore informed the prisoners that they
could not bc released on the payment Of
any fines, but that II the prisoner.
would, Of their own accord, offer to sub
scribe Tor charities" sums varying from
$25, 600 to 100000 each for the leading
men, and not less than 10000 for any
body, the merciiul president might be-
induced to pardon them without any
fines or imprisonment.
Twenty-iourth-liolh the British aud
the American governments being At
that time too rhickeu.hearted too inter
yene in his proceedings, this offer had
To he accepted The American citizens
all made heavy contributions 10 "char.
Ity," John HAYS Hammond paying
100000, No such penalties were ever
'xacled m the whole history of the
nited Suates, nor during the last cen
ury in any other civilized country.
Char ties for Kruger
Twenly.tiflh-Those charitable con.
ributions, amounting to about $1,000.
100 in all, were duly paid over to lie
lighness Kruger or his son.in.law. II |
4 needless To say that the charities
ave never turned up, although four
ears have now elapsed since the ST.
90 600 was safely deposited undcr the
ontrol of the pinus Paul Kruger.
Twenty.dith- Both the British and
he American governments meekly sub
nitted to these outNges upon their
itizens more shame Tor them both no
ionder that Kruger described both
.nglishmen, Irishmen and Americans
= dogs who, il they were good would
ck his boots
The advocates of the Beers ia this
ountry assert that these ats have oc-
urred only since the Jameson raid OF
december, lS95 In this there * not
ne word OF truth except, Of course, as
D the trial and sentences OF the Out
lnders. An the other acts OF oppression
bove narrated, aud many, many more
ire committed and persisted in before
he Jameson raid occurred or was ever
hought OF. In fact, the condition of
he Oullande's has been distinctly bet
er since the Jameson raid occurred.
Ilthough the raiders were defeated and
aplured, Mr.. Kruger was not there
lter quite SO confident that the cut.
'nders would never fight as he had
cen before Alter ilat raid, and not
elore, he permittrI .Iohaunesbury Ia