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provide for the case of judges refusing to apply such laws, Law I. of 1897 has been passed, which compels them to swear obedience to the President and gives him the

displeased him and caused the fines or damages inflicted

contemptible and lowest set of adventurers for not being satisfied with it! Dr. Kuyper declares that "the factitious discontent exist

Krüger's interpretation of

he P

ts of justice and police i

the illicit canteen keepers who supplied the natives with liquor were up in arms at once and appealed to President Krüger. They represented Trimble as having served in the English Army, and as being in receipt of a pension from the Cape Government, further stating that his appointment was an insult to the Boer

work. They caught two notorious characters, known thieves, with gold in their possession. The thieves openly boasted that nothing would be done to them; the next day, one was allowed to escape, the

ing order! They are chosen from among the worst types of Boers, some of whom are the descendants of English deserters and

e was a small matter; only when a case of this nature arises, it reveals

ht in 1898, when three drunken men insulted and set upon him. He knocked one of them down. The other two called the police. Edgar, meanwhile, entered his own house. F

00. The money was not even paid in, but carried over to be deducted monthly

en, many of whom knew Edgar; and this feeling wa

genious

or murder, but that he considered the chance of his conviction by a Boer jury to be very small. The word "culpable," says Webster (English Dictionary) is "applied to acts whic

ding with the murder trial, appeared as witness in his own case, and swore that he did not consider that Jones had been guilty of murder; he not only made this statement on oath, but called the Secon

dently before a Boer jury. Not only was he acquitted, but the presiding judge, Kock, who had claimed a judgeship as a "son of the soil," in pronouncing judgment add

sed two newspapers, The Critic and

Lombaar

," Dr. Kuyper tells us, "was a Johannesburg policeman, and like Jones a little rough in his mode of action".... "He committed no outrage; the sole reproach attaching to

coloured British subjects, men and women, to demand their passes; to send them to prison whether right or wrong; to ill-treat and flog

itlanders to the English Government, to ask the protection it

ose I now give here, are sufficient to prove that under Mr. Krüger'