Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1900 — That Boer Colonizing Talk. [ARTICLE]

That Boer Colonizing Talk.

The Indianapolis Press has undoubtedly been reading The Republican’s comments on the ridiculous talk about locating a large colony of Boers in the Kankakee river region, and has been convinced of the folly of the scheme. It remarks editorially. The newspaper talk of colonizing the South African Boers in the Kankakee swamps of northern Indiana is the veriest nonsense. The Kankakee marshes are about the last place in creation that the so-called “Boer farmer” would select for a habitation. The Boers are a pastoral rather than agricultural people. Their country is a semi-arid plateau from three to four thousand feet above sea level, generally rough * and uneven. During the dry season their cattle are driven long distances to find pasturage and water. The Boer knows nothing of ditohing swamps and cares less. He likes the free and open life of the veldt, ant wants a vast amount of territory over which to roam. There id more room and opportunity for the Boer in his own country than in any other place in the world.

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