The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1921-11-26

went to Cambridge for university education III
law Back again in South Africa. he practiced
law and politics. Then he became Paul Kruger
secretary of state Probably his state letters 10
London had more than little to do with bringing
on the Boer-British war of 1S99-1902. Into that
hard-fought little conflict he went as private.
II was about this time that Sir Alfred Miner
and SHUTS had their famous encounter, which is
thus described by Stephen Bonsal in the New York
Times:
sMilncr is reported to have pleaded with his
Young end promising antagonist much In these
words:
"'Stop look where you are going, SHUTS You
are digging your political grave without knowing
it think England will never forgive or forget
this-and you a Cambridge man-one of our
own
Fs.Yesl / thought was almost an Engshman,
too SHUTS is said to have answered. But the
Jameson raid proved to me that wasn't I'm 60
ing with Dom Paul Kruger, not because I'm
Dutchman or Soutl-African, but because he is
right and want to be right Perhaps some day
England will see who were her real friends and
who were her real foes, but in the meantime l
shall do my duty as see it-very clearly
How interesting the meeting between these two
men as colleagues on the British delegation to the
Paris peace conference
That war lasted four years. The British enlist
ments totaIed 100000 and those Of the Beers l0O.
600 The British casualties were 24,OOO and those
Of the Beers 1900, with 10000 prisoners. The
main cause Of the was the dscontent OF the
"outlanders" The terms OF peace were That the
Beers gave allegiance to Great Britain and were
granted full amnesty and the return of their
property
SHUTS emerged from the war general. II ne
had considerable share in bringing on the war, ne
probably had more to do with bringing ABOUT
i neace For he was one Of the Boer peace commits
s,oners who met General Kitchener and Lovd Mil
nor Incidentally. Shuts safe7conduct pass bore
the signature 3D. Haig Colonel" Yes; this Is
the same Field Marshal Sir Douglas Eaig. with
whom Gen. Jan Christian SHUTS stood shoulder
70 shoulder against the Germans. OF the part
nlaved bv SHUTS in bringing about peace In l9O.
fcdwin O. Hill writes in the New York Herald:
at was as one OF the Boer peace commissioners
who met General Kitchener and Sir Alfred Miner
that SHUTS rose to the rank of statesman Inc
commissioners had been unable to agree and the
Beers returned to their convention of national dele
gates to obtain new instructions ABOUT surrehuer
ing Internationally. For days the convention was
at loggerheads. The delegates refused 10 legis-
late the republics oat of existence. At length
SHUTS gained hearing. He told them the ruin
about the situation He said that 1t was imposs-
BILE to fight longer. that they could expect no nelp
from Europe and America, and that rurther resist
ance meant useless bloodshed.
"Brethren,' he declared, In what IS Regarded
among South-Africans as one of the most eloquent
and certainly one Of the most momentous speeches
ever mnde in that country, we have vowed 10
stand fast to the bitter end. Let us be men ana
acknowledge that that end has now come and that
1t Is more bitter than ever we thought It could De-