Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-31
PAUL KRucER's VISION.


many years in the Transvaal and
knows the people. He furnishes to
readers of that magazine a Very inter-
esting article on Paul ISruger''-..pe
ant millionaire, rebel, autocrat, lay
preacher, tllpuster, visionary ana
statesman. Beginning with the early
history of the Beers, the great trek and
Kruger's boyhood life. the writer de-
scribes the mans career thru all the
years of buccaneer politics down until
he became president, and then proceeds
with Very interesting account of Paul
Kruger as president of the Transraal
Republic.
of the concession system. says Mr.
Garrett, lin which centers half the cor
ruption of the Transvaal Mr. kruger
has been the main pillar" Again re-
ferring to Kruger's3 attitude toward for
eigners the writer says - a great presi-
dent might have made a great republic
by fusing the older with the newer inn
migrants. A president Who failed TO
rise to this iargersconception might yet
long have kept the busy newcomers
apathetic about politics by giving them
an administration that would be good
for business. MIR kruser's government
has adopted neither policy
The picture of Paul kruger's vision
with which the writer closes his arti-
Gle is worth reading by any one. He
says:
Paul Kruger is a Visionary: What is
his vision? 1t is of sart of oligarchic
theocracv. with Paul Kruger as its
Melchizedek, priest and king in one. He
sees the faithful sitting each under his
own guln-tree. on his own stoep. and
as FAR as his eye ranges that is his
farm, ana BIS attle are on q score OF
hills. Tsk I5gtng men are stalwart.
great tluTt8s before the Lord, ard the
siuung women are grossly built and
fruitful. And to each farm there is a
made rdad and a dam. and the stranger
: In the land pays for The same. The
strange keeps to himself in the city.
and IS Ii1ste orsless goddess, for he is not
of the ynosen in the Promised Land
But he sives no trouble, for he is we'll
disposal. and looks to the Rad for his
s laws IA due season. The burgher has.
his Kattirs, who do his work. but they
are not cruelty used, because they obey.
mt, a,
educated, beea e kaat spells The Afri-
kander; but enough So 10 be able to
hold all offices of state. that these may
be purged of the Hollander and the
German no less than the accused En-
glish or English hearted Afrikander.
And the nations of the earth come w
ing the one with the other for favors,
Germany and France and England. all
on the one footing.
And above all sits Paul Kruger, fa-
ther of his people, dwelling in the house
that the concessionnaire Nellmapins
gave him. wealthy. but thrifty, living
as simply as he used to live on the
farm, save that sleeps head and trot-
tiers come round somewhat oftenet,. And
the judges come to him to know how
they shall Judge, ard the Rad msm-
bers to know what laws they shall
make; and on Sundays all come to the
little chapel near To hear him expound
the word of God and the truth as set
forth by the separatist Reformed
Brethren. And there is peace in the
earth. And it is flat, and the sun goes
round it,
DO WE OWE FlLlPlN0EsE INDEPENDENCE?
Hon. Gilaries DENLY mas u vigorous
answer in the June Forum to those who
urge the granting of independence to
ence to the Filipinos?" he asks. and
then proceeds to show from dispatches
and from the history of the Philippine
campaign that no reasonable ground
exists for supposing that Aguinaldo
ever looked on the United States as an
ally, and that therefore in conquering
the islands from Spain Americans are
in nowise pledged to obtain the consent
of the Flipinos before asserting sover-
eighty over them. He reinforces the
! argument by historical parallels and
has made an exceedingly effective
argument for expansion. He says in
part:
The legal argument should be aban-
doned. The anti-impelialist should
rest his case on simple charity. on phil
anthropy. on quotations from the scrip
lures. In this realm of reasoning
I there are vast fields of general sugges-
lions which commend themselves to
many excellent people. Unquestion-
ably there is great division as to the
mode Of carrying them out. Many
( persons believe that to build up great
free government in the Orient is a
splendid work. Many persons think
that to take free institutions to peo-
pie that has been enslaved is noble
thing to do, To transplant our benign
Laws to the Philippines. to divorce
church and state, to establish common
schools and colleges, to bestow individ-
ual freedom on the people-these arr
greet ar d honorable ends. Say that we
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