The Irish standard., 1901-02-09
VICTORIA AND KRUGER
Judged by Their Acts, the Latter is
the Greater.

Judged by Their Acts, the Latter is
the Greater.
The honor due old age is a precept
inculcated by savage and civilized man.
Religion has hallowed this reverence
with it's choicest blessings, and the Al
mighty Father adds recompcnse to
his command, "Honor thy father and
thy mother, that thou mayest be long
lived upon the land which the Lord,
thy God will give thee
Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth
have passed away after long and
bloody, but from a materialistic Eng
fish view, glorious reigns, says the
Washington ID. O. correspondent of
the New York Freeman's Journal
Queen Victoria sleeps with her ances-
tors, and like them, has passed to judg-
ment. The time is too unripe to write
her historic cpitaph; but it is certainly
reasonable to VAIN man and child of
the improperly of dedication of Il mere
human personality. She lived and died
in terrible environment. Sprung
from stock Initiated and debauched,
she was blessed with length of days
Her offspring has not edited the race
through virtue or generosity. She
sleeps in the grave her own hands
have dug.
Behind her obseuuics looms the fig.
urc Of great old man. Paul Kruger
His ancestry is noble in all the attri-
blltcs which made Gideon or the Mae
cabccs glorious. He has wrought with
his hands in the fields. He has fought
before men, and his hands are ulsoled
with bloodguiltincss. He was humane
in conquest. His humanity to con-
qucrcd foe stands supremc-the very
katfrs and Hottentots subjected by
him cannot be seduccd to strike his
people or ravish his lands Such is the
Just man. Such is the contrast between
the aged president of the South Afri-
can Republic and the queen who has
died. Paul Kruger, the fugitive from
the relentless hate of Victoria's regime;
Paul Kruger, the humane statesman:
Paul Kruger, the victim of the op-
preston and violence which the name
and mandate of Victorian sanction, is
the historic figure of the age, and the
exponent of Justice which is to be
found at the hands of a virtuous Brit
ish monarch.
1t is common talk here in well in
formed circles, that not only was
Queen Victoria an active participant in
the war against the South African
republics, but she diligently prepared
the way for the Strengthening legions of
British tyranny; and her dying inquiry
says her son, in Il cable to the brutal
hOuSc-bllrning Kitchener, ''was after
yourself and the gallant army under
your command"
When Jameson and his cowardly and
misccgenated buccaneers attempted to
raid the Transvaal. Emperor William
cat that time Il noble and naughty gen
tlcmam proclaimed his brotherhood
with the Dutch farmers. England
begged and pleaded on Bonded knees
for the lives forfeited by her traitor
Gus dupcs. Paul Kruger. out of the
Rhodes, Jameson and the namclcss
American who attempted miserable
crime, which their courage failed to
atone in tragic death. The ancient
buccaneers never faltcrcd. They
faced death for loot, they ravaged
country-sidcs for spoil. but these hire
lings of Victoria supincly surrendered
when faced by handful of Bocr
farmers. believe the Jameson buc-
cancers surrendered with loss of six
killed out of the 500 miscrcans who
started on the Infamous ride.
Picture the scene had those 500
armed mon swooped down on Pretoria.
The town lay sleeping in the bosom of
Il peaceful valley. Unarmed men and
women piled their avocations, while
Jameson and his riders steulthily
sought to assassinatc them and their
liberties. Had that band of cowardly
cuttlroats swoopcd down upon preto-
ria, blood and ruin would have ruled
Men, women and children would have
| fallen prey to lust and MURDER Not
soul would have been spared until
the troubled land, harrcd by the in
vadns legions of Victoria FASTENED to
fortify the capture, begged mercy and
the miserable right of slavery. This
picture of Victoria's sweet benevolence
is almost trte, but it is not so gener-
ally realized that smarting under the
rebuke Of Emperor William, Victoria
journeyed to Berlin, that she, an old
woman lettering to the grave, threw
her maternal influence upon the side
of rapacity and outrage; that she open
ed the way for Cecil Rhodes to visit
William; that she constantly seduccd
the chivalry OF that gentleman, until
today, he, the War Lord, stands as Il
field marshal in the degraded legions
of Great Britain.
Victoria did these things. She was
an active agent in precipitating the
South African war. She had been led
to believe that fifty thO,,San6 RritiSl,