The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-11-23
GIVES KRUGER
a DELIRIOUS WELCOME
MarseilIeS MultitudeS Cheer His Declaration That
His People Will Fight Till the End.
Transvaa exPreSdent PronounceS British More Barbar
GUS Than the KaffirS-EngliSh Hotel MObbed

which he drove with DR.. Leyds and
NM. Pauliat and Thourel
Soon after. in response to a thunder
Gus ovation, he appeared on the balcony
and repeatedly bowed. but as some ten
minutes elapsed without sign of
abatement in the enthusiasm, he spoke
a few words which were interpreted in
French by DR.. Leyds and were followed
by a renewal of the frenzy.
Kruger Sounds His Slogan.
Following is the text Of Mr.. Kruger's
speech:
II thank the president Of the Mar
settles. committee and the president Of
the central committee of the independ-
ence of the Beers for their welcOm- I
thank all this population assembled in
great concourse to greet me. for al
though I wear mourning for the mis-
fortunes of my country and although
I have not come to seek festivities. still
nevertheless accept with all my heart
these accIamati0ns, for know they are
dictated to YOU by the emotions which
are inspired in you by your trials and
by your sympathy for our cause, which
is that of liberty. which awakened you.
I am truly proud and happy at having
chosen as my point OF landing port
in France, to set foot on free soil and
to be received by you as a free man.
eminent for all the tokens of interest
that again only recently it was pleased
! to give me. I believe England, had she
| been better informed. would never have
| consented to this war, and since the
| expedition of jameson, who wished 10
| seize the two republics without the ne
! cessity of firing a rife shot, have
| never ceased to demand a tribunal of
| arbitration which up to now has al
| WAYS been refused.
! THE war waged on us in the two re-
| pubIics has reached the last limits OF
/ barbarism. During my life I have had
( IN fight many times the savages of the
| tribes Of Africa, but the barbarians We
] have to fight now are worse than the
others. They even urge the Kaffirs
| against US. They burn the farms we
/ worked so hard to construct and they
drive out our women and children
| whose brothers and husbands have been
killed or taken prisoner, leaving them
/ unprotected and rOOfiesS. and O1ten
without bread to eat But, whatever
| they nav do. we win never surrender.
We will fight to the end Oar great
irnperishabIe confidence reposes 10 the
/ eternal in our Cod. We know our
cause is Just aud if the justice of men
I is wanting TO us. ne. the eternal. VINO IS
master Of all peoples, and to whom be-
| longs the future. viii never abandon US
7 assure YOU that if the Transvaal
and the Orange Free State must lose
| their independence il will be because
ali the Boer people have been destroyed
with their women and children.
Presses Tri-color to His Heart.
Finally, to testify his gratitude. he
| took on his hand a corner of the
l French tri-coIOr that was flying from
2 the balcony between the Trausvaa
2 and the Free State flags and pressed
l it to his heart again and again The
2 | enthusiastic people cheered him unit
! he withdrew TO his rooms, which HI
found filled with bouquets and gar
! lands presented by his admirers
Davitt Makes a Speech.
o After Mr. Kruger had retired
= / Michael Davitt delivered a short ad
= dress in behalf Of the Irish peOpI
d / which evoked most enthusiastic ap
n pIause from those present, duriu
e which cries of WV L'ITeland' re
= sounded. The gist Of Mr.. Davitts ad
s dress was interpreted 10 Mr. Kruger
= Stays Away From Banquet.
= DR.. Ley'ds represented him at tn
n banquet given in his honor, where a
z the BOer officials and members of tn
h pro-BOer committees were present, an
read a message from him.
DR.. Leyds then said,
In the name of President Kruger
# have the honor 10 drink to the heaIt
Jfi Of the president OF the French 2,
d public"
1t Mr.. Kruger viii leave for Paris
ID 9 o'clock tomorrow morning, remain
in ing one night en- route at DIXON.