The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-10-21
DOM PAUL MAY
LECTURE HERE
us Expected That the Grand VI" PA"
uri,I o1,I,ca Tour of This Country.

Citizens Of the United States may nave
tho Measure during the coming winter oA
.++anainr a series of lectures, at which
I,raeidant Kruger. of the South African
2an,,blic will be the lecturer, II the pre-
Iirtio,7s of Colonel Arthur Lyncn the Ia
mons author and war correspondent, eoiiie
true.
II hope and expect that Presi1eht iNtu ',
ger will come TO America, ssaio Soloitei
lynch. :'and believe that his presence III
America will make Il very. great impress
sion on the American public They VIII
500 that this old leader of South Africa
ca nuch scoffed at and maligned, IS not
on1v one of the grandest figures OF our
time. but also one of the most advanced III
history. ,;t;o,
II believe that he has just the auaEtles
. appeal to the American puoio-si1tplici
tv Of nature and strength OF ni'id con-
bined with great ana lnlleN'o'v ps, pv7s ,o
s.Al,es zal regt llomen' Cali snail CONF
risht1. That was for many years faui
Er,oers fayorite motto, quoted IN season
and out of season to all. IL ne was efit-
icised he used it as an excuse; II ne want
cd 10 comfort his people, 1t was ms stailo-
by. o++o
For many years his self-chosen motto TO
was justified in so far as ne persoli''is
was concerned. but there has come now d
,ioI,s phrase is applicable no longer.
rro q great extent the TransVaal was
pan, Kruger. and PAM Kruger was the
1'ransyaal His life story was SO lhti-
mate,v bound up with the history OF the
sonrh African Republic that to tell the
tale OF one is to tell that OF the other.
OF HUMBLE BIRTH
It is fairly certain that Kruger is OF
German descent, though the many guess
es at his precise genealosy are all more o'
less beside the mark He was porn vi
October 10TH 1928. at Cclesbers, III ,iie. -..pe
Colony. his father being q small, lhlpe-
| cunious farmer. as 4 boy. Stephahus
Johannes Pa;lius Kruger had very marc
| life. He herded the oxen. he shot spring
| bok for the larder, and he had practically
| 40 educati ton at all.
| When he was between ten and eleven
| years old, his parents took him with tlen.
I on the Great Trek. when several hundred
| Boer fanatics shook off the yoke OF Eng
| fish Government, for reasons which they
| deemed satisfactory, and trellked far into
| the unknown North, to carve out q new
/ country for thmselveS. They We're hardy,
| :ndomitable pioneers, but only q minority
| of them survived the numberless h2rdshlps
| of many years of wandering in a strange
| land, amid hostile native tribes. and WITH
| no other home save the oS-wagons in
| which they travelled.
| Paul Kruger was one Of the most &C
| tive of all the pioneers, and his strength
! and wisdom early made him a leader. Hs
| gave the greatest assistance to the earl!
colonists.
Rustenberg. Potchefstroom and even
tuallv Pretoria We're founded by those
hardy Voortrekkers. who certainly proved
themselves to be intrepid pioneers and i'm
placable foes to the natives.
This rough. noulad .veldt life of shoot
ing, fighting and pioneering, hardened
Paul Kruger into the man Of iron. wit
gradually developed into the born leade
Of men His hard. rough. gruff. sto1;t
personality had a peculiar attraction 70
all those with whom he came into con
tact. and it is easily conceivable that eve,
IS 4. young man he held many places O
honor and high trust among his feilov
| Beers.
He followed the fortunes of his country
n prosperity and adversely. and by hi:
simple untutored eioquence held hi
hurghers fast in unqusstoning obedienc,
! 10 him.
His sincere if mistaken, Puritanical7 re
! ligious opinions are austere in their make,
simplicity. He is really a man of deer
! religious feelings, and essentially a ma,
for whom the Bible is the only source O
knowledge and good conduct He cling
practically TO the rule OF life OF sixteenth
century Protestants. He soleurly believe
that the sun revoives round the earth. an;
that the latter is flat.
There are unfathonled depths OF fana
tacis.n in his character, which drove hin
ont as a youth into the solitude of th1
!, wilderness to fast and to pray, as the oil
Hebrew prophets were driven, or the her
,nits of. the second century.
A PATRIOT.
Tr,,e patriot he has always been Elect
al and reelected president, he held hi
nosition as much by fear as by love. 70
10 was an orerbearing bully and a har
taskmaster. Still, he ruled as wisely a
he l;new how, until the foreign infiu:
ROM. money into country where q
money had been before. and turned g
barren waste :nto. a land flowing With ray
gold. This was too much for Kruger. VII
/. found the amlassing OF money which 4
could not spend the one absorbing though
of his declinang years. SIS. s.,
q How to squeeze the Tit a-'ss 7Tts 81 n
+ English declare. was his one q rt'.sl $ f'f
sire. and to ~ sssss =. g 9