Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1902-06-06
Tao Glory Rs .ssth the noers.

loAiHiiSaPciiS AilcuiC'l
For the glory is with the conquered.
Individual heroism and .self-sacriiice
aside, the last three years contain
nothing the British can remember
with pride. Nothingin all history is
more splendid than the Boer record Of
skill in leadership and gallantry in ac-
tion; of tough endurance in defense
against overwhelming numbers, and
daring brilliancy in attack against
even greater odds; OF chivalry, hu-
manity and generosity under the
severest+' provocation to retaliation.
A nation OF 25o,00O, with never one
fifth of that number under arms, they
have confronted an army Of 250, 1000,
sent by the richest and most powerful
empire on earth. They did not sur
render till four-tifths Of their greatest
strength were prisoners; till they had
inflicted on the enemy loss greater
than the whole fighting force Of their
nation, and compelled waste Of
treasure which generations Of British
taxpayers will groan to make good.
Posterity will glorify their deeds as
it sings the glories of the Swiss and
Montenegrins, and of those earlier
Dutch who held the power OF Spain at
bay for a hundred years. What gal
liant race would not choose to pass into
history with this record rather than
that? London may amuse it's wits
with drunken spilth Of wine, and the
king may try on his new gewgaw in
peace; but the real glory of the day is
with the thin lines Of ragged yeldts-
men streaming in TO surrender, and
the patient captives in British prison
camps.
This is no more day Of mourning
for the Beers than it is.a day Of
triumph for the British. .What are
three years in the life Of a people?
The dutch Of Holland fought Spain
for century. Peace was made again
and again, but it was always a truce
in which the great adversary rested
in fancied security. and the Little nation
silently gathered its forces for new
combat. The deadly blows struck at
the power OF Spain did not show
visible scars OF weakness and decay
for generations. Independence came
to the grandchi ildren of those who
fought for it first, and the breakdown
of Spanish power came under the
grandson Of him who first tried to
curb the liberties Of the free burghcrs.
The Boer republics are dead, but the
Boer people live. Why may they not
bide their time, dreaming Of a civil
future as glorious as their battled
past? They are still the great ma
jority of the white people in South
Africa, and neither crown admin.
istration nor assisted emigration can
diminish their relative numbers, If
they continue to live the stern and
simple life Of their patIiarchal past.
Time will be their friend and the laws
Of nature will fight for them. They
are a race Of strong men, who do not
spend their manhood in Cleyeland-
street orgies. They are race Of
chaste women, who do not conspire
with degraded profession, to defeat
the purposes of nature. Their men
husband one woman, and their women
mother swarming broods OF stalwart
sons.
If the Beers are still ignorant Of
some Of the virtues Of civilization,
they have not learned the vices that
make it fatal to the vigor Of q race.
They are as prolific as the Irish, and
they will fill South Africa with men
who can remember and know how to
wait. Why should not the future be
theirs some day, when the British
empire has begun to weaken under
repeated shocks, and some sea power
has grown up which may do for them
what France did for us? The bcanti-
full dream OF the United States Of
South Africa has been eclipsed; but
observers Of history regard such
seclipses with the eye Of science, rather
than with the superstitionof savages,
who look upon the sun as bfbtted out
forever. .s.5.5.
For rover2sixty Years.
= Az oLnA AsD WELL-TnIRp RgMEDY. Mrs.
sixty 11y