Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-20
DOM PAUL MAY
LECTURE HERE,

Citizens of theh United States may
have the pleasure during the coming
winter of attending a series of lectures
at whica President Kruger, OF the
South African Republic will be the lee
turer. if the predictions of Colonel Ar
thur Lynch, the famous author and
war correspondent, come true.
II hope and expect that President
Kruger will come to America said Col
onel Lynch. and l believe that his pres
ence in America Will make a very great
impression on the American public. They
will. see that this old leader of South AT
RIGA, SO nuuctl. scoffed at and marigned,
is not only one Of the grandest figures
CT our time. but also one of the moss ,ad-
vanced IN history.
Il believe that he has just the qualities
to appeal to the American ~public-sim-
plicity OF nature and strength of mind
combined with great and inflexible pur-
pose" .
allies za1 rest komen" (ail shal come
righD. That was for MANY years Paul
kTUgers favorise motto, quoted in sea-
son and out of season to all. If he was
criticised he used it as an excuse;if he
wanted to comfort his people it was his
standby.
For many years his self -chosen motto
was justified in so far as he personally
was concerned, but there mas come now
a day of reckoning when the old senten-
tious phrase is applicable no longer.
To a great extent the Transvaal was
Pau Kruger, and Pau Kruger was the
Transvaal. His life story was so init
mately our up With the history OF the
South African Rspyiblic. that to tell the
tale of the n is TO tell that of the other.
OF HUMBLE BIRTH. s.ff
1t is fairly certain that Kruger is of
German descent, though many guesses
at his precise ~genealogy are all more or
less beside the nark He was born on
October 10th, 1925, at Colesburg, in the
Cape Colony, his father being a small,
~impecunious farmer. 9 AS a boy, Steph-
anus Johannes Pau,us Kruger a a very
hard life. He herded the oxen, he shot
sprinGbok for the Harder, and he had prac-
tically no education at all.
When he was between ten and eleven
years old, his parents took him with
them on the Great Trek, when several
hundred Eoer families shook off the yoke
Of English government, for reasons
which they deemed satisfactory, ..and
trekked far intb the unknown North,
to carve out a new country for them
selves. They We're hardy, indomitable
pioneers, but only a minority of them
survived the numberless hardships of
many years of wandering in a ststapge
land, amid hostile native tribes, and with
no other home save the OK wagons, in
which they travelled. So
Faul Kruger was one of the most ,ac-
tive Of all the pioneers and his strength
ana wisdom early made him a Leader.
He gave the greatest assistance to the
early colorfats. !. 20.
Rustenberg. Potchferstroom and even
tually .Prtoria We're founded by those
hardy Voortrekkers who certainly proved
themselves to be intrepid pioneers and
inrlacabLe foes to the natives.
Itn.s rough, nomad veldt life of shoot
ing, fstling and pioneer ing, hardened
Paul Kruger into the man. who graiu-
ally developed into the born leader of
men. His hard, rough, gruff, stolid per-
sonality had a peculiar attraction for all
those with whom he came INTO contact,
and it was easily conceivable that even
as a young man he held MANY places of
honor and high trust among his fellow
Beers.
He followed the fortunes Of his country
~HS liz ny lllS
simple, untutored eloquence held his
bursihers fast in unquestioning obedi-
ence to him..
His sincere, if mistaken Puritanical re-
llg1ous opinions are austere in their naked
simplicity. He lis really a man Of deep
reGgious feelings, and essentially a man
for whom the Bible is the only source of
knowledge and good conduct. He clings
practically to the rule OF sixtee nth -cen-
tury Protestants. He solemnly believes
that tine sun revolves around the earth,
and that the latter is flat. q
There are unfathomable depths of IA
natacism in his character, which drove
him out as a youth into tine solitude of
ule wilderness to fast and to pray,t as
the old Hebrew prophets Were driven. or
the heImits OF the second century. !, n,
A PATRIOT. ~ i,
True prophet he a always been. Elect
ed and reelected president, he held his
position as much by fear as by love, for
he was an overbearing bully and a hard
tassk1master. Still, he ruled as wisely ais
he knew how. until the foreign influx
dborlsht money into a country where NO
money had been before. and turned a
barren waste into a land flowing with
Jaw gold. This was too much for Krug-
er, who found the amassfng of money
which he could not spend the one absorb
ang thought of his declining years.
How to squeeze the Uitlander, SO the
English declare, was his one and only
desire. and though to a certain extent