The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-07-14
CELTS OF THE TRANSVAAL.
Lyndenburg, Known by the Name OF
"IriSh Town."

time 1t was republic OF its own, Blu
after {; quarrel it kissed Pretoria ant
was happily married. People sometime
speak OF Lydenburg as the "Irisl
Town. There are not very many nativ,
Irish to be found there now, save among
the old men, but there is fine stalwar
breed OF Irish Boers-young men ant
naidens with Dutch mothers and Irisl
fathers, who sing God Save Ireland
in the taal, and hate the Rcd-necks will
a double-barrelled hatred. In houses III
Lydenburg way you will find pictures o
Robert Emmett on the walls, side by sid
with the portrait Of Dom Paul and the
drawing OF red-bearded Cronje scoop
ing in jameson and his schelms a
Doornkop. The Irish were the pioneers
of the Lydenburg gold diggings, ant
they spread themselves over the face O.
the land, washing and fossicking for the
yellow metal. Wherever he goes
Africa, or Australia, Asia, or America
the lrlshman is always the pioneer
By-and-by when he has pioneered worth
something, the Englishman and the Jew
-arcadcs ambo-cone along, ant
awhile later you meet the Irisl,mar
plodding across the desert, with his
blanket and his billycan, and his pipe
seeking new land to pioneer, and striv,
ing to figure out how the Saxon and
the Hebrew have scoopcd him. He
generally gives up trying to find out
TOR the Irisllman is as child in the
ways of Anglo Saxon Jewish civiliza-
ton
When Lydenburg "brolse OUT the
Irisllman was first tlcre-just as he was
first in California, Australia, and the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. He PANIED and
lived merriy. He was stranger in the
land, but he had no grievances. In
after years, when the Englishman and
the Jew came along they brought the
| grievances. Australians, Yankees, Scan
| dinavians, and Scotchlncn came tun-
bling UP after the Irisl1man. The
Scotchmen opened stores and sold bad
whlsky-tlc others drank it.
The diggcrs and the brutal Beers fra
ternized. Some of the diggers made for
tunes, married the daughters OF their
oppressors, and settled down; others
made no fortunes, but cllccrfully mar
rled the daughters of the land and hus-
tied along happily. Others, again, made
fortunes and spent them; and others
never made a cent at all. But nobody
ever starved. 1t was only when the
Anglo Saxon and the son OF Israel got
their claws on the country, men began
to starvc.
The Boer government sent message
to the diggcrs. There is no rcd tape
about the Beers. The message was
simple and direct. Boys" it said,
don't you think you had better send a
representative TIP to the Volksraad?'
The diggcrs elected one OF their mum
ber-a North OF Ireland man, ii MY
memory serves me, named McLachan
and lie went up as member OF the
Rad for the gold-diggers. And when
ever the Dutclmcn were considering
things bearing on the gold-diggings the
president would ask, "What do tho boys
want, Mac?' And whatever the boys
wanted the boys got. There was no
! franchise question" then, for there were
! ao crawling capitalist conspirators in
| testing the country, and the Beers, who
lived i'll friendship with the ,diggcrs
knew that these rough, good-naturct
men without guile would as soon have
I dreamed OF plotting against the land
and the people as they would have
dreamed OF becoming tcctotallcrs
Frank Watkins was the last member
the diggers sent up to the Rad. Frank
was a civilized Englislman At the
beginning OF this war he crossed tc
England to explain to his countrymcr
that it was wrong to rob and Stay. He
escaped with his life
Dc kapp and the Randi "brokc out, >
and Lydenburg became half deserted
John Bull and Ikcy Moses came along
and darkness covered the face Of ths
land The good old Anglo Saxon sys
ten OF wage slavery was introduced
Fat Jews and fat Englishmcn set up il
johannesburg, and built stock ex
change and other institutions, which
will spare tho bushes OF the innoccn
by not naming. They invited the work
crs to flock in, and when the workers
tiockcd in they started fine old Eng
lish game called Competition. 1t is
simple ganc-you put two men to work
and whichever does The most work ane
asks the least pay for it, wins TIL,
Bocrs, who hold primitive ideas, dis
liked this game. They noticed that TIN
loser in it was thrown out on the road
side to die, and they commenced max
ing laws which were inimical to tn
game. Then the great British natio,
discovered that the Beers we're a vile
ignorant, cowardly, dirty, bigoted, non
progressive race, whose existence wa
an insult to God Almighty and men
ace to humanity, and they started in t
wipe them out.
Mcthnks l wander from Lydenbure
The old diggers preferred their indie
pendence round Lydcnburg to Anglo