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Show BOERS NOT "CULTURED." Citizenri of thin city of English or Scotch birth or extraction held a meeting meet-ing in the Central Music Hall last week, in which they endeavored to satisfy sat-isfy themselves and all who cared to listen to them that England is entirely in the right in her present war and that the Boers are a very Vad lot indeed, in-deed, observes the Clticago New World. The main thing they were able to bring risrain.-tt the Boers was that they were ! dirty and that they were not "cultured." j As to being dirty, it may perhaps be j true that the Boer farmens arc not so ! much addicted to taking cold baths in the morning as the members' of the I upper ten in England, though we do j not know that even much is true. ! But if they are dirty and untidy in the matter of their houses and their clothing, cloth-ing, they must be very different indeed from the Dutch who stayed at home in Holland. But it w s;aid that they are not cultured; they do not write books: they do not even read books, except the Bible; they do not paint pictures, and they hardly know what.trt in. But are there not a great. many other things-which things-which thoiie Boers do not do? They do not sell their eoulsi for gold, like so many of the cultured people: they do not work their women in factories or o?weat:ihcps at starvation wages until health and the pride of womanhood are alike destroyed. If they have not the high intellectual culture' which a email fraction of the population has in other countries, they have not the degrada-tvm degrada-tvm of money-making slavery which, in one way or other, drags down the j groat majority of the people in those j countries. In ch.jos.ing the life which ! they have e-hosen the Boers have acted ded:beratelyand advisedly. What they j a:ik now is to be allowed to lead their pimple pastoral life in peace, and not J to have the curses with the blessings I of the "higher civilization" forced on ; them at the cannon's mouth. |
