uted so loudly for the franchise, we find that the
majority were either foreigners or Jews hailing from Frankfurt or Hamburg.
Many of them had, to be sure, become naturalised British subjects, but I
doubt very much whether, among all the magnates of Johannesburg or of
Kimberley, more than one or two pure-blooded Englishmen could be found.
Rhodes, of course, was an exception, but one which confirmed the rule.
Those others whose names can still be conjured with in South Africa were
Jews, mostly of Teutonic descent, who pretended that they were Englishmen
or Colonials; nothing certain was known about their origin beyond the fact
that such or such small shops in Grahamstown, Durban or Cape Town had
witnessed their childish romps. The Beits, the Neumanns and the Wernhers
were German Jews; Barney Barnato was supposed to have been born under the
shade of a Portuguese synagogue, and considered the fact as being just as
glorious a one as would have been that of having in his veins "all the
blood of all the Howards." The Joels were Hebrews; the Rudds supposed to
belong to the same race through some remote ancestor; the Mosenthals,
Abrahams, Phillipps, and other notabilities of the Rand and Kimberley,
were Jews, and one among the so-called Reformers, associated with the
Jameson Raid, was an American engineer, John Hays Hammond.

The war, which was supposed to win the franchise for Englishmen in the
Transvaal, was in reality fought for the advantage of foreigners. Most
people honestly believed that President Kruger was aiming at destroying
English prestige throughout the vast dark continent, and would have been
horrified had they known what was going on in that distant land. Fortunes
were made on the Rand in a few days, but very few Englishmen were among
the number of those who contrived to acquire millions. Englishmen, indeed,
were not congenial to the Transvaal, whilst foreigners, claiming to be
Englishmen because they murdered the English language, abounded and
prospered, and in time came sincerely to believe that they were British
subjects, owing to the fact that they continually kept repeating that
Britain ought to possess the Rand.

When Britain came really to rule the Rand the adventurers found it did not
in the least secure the advantages which they had imagined would derive
from a war they fostered. This question of the Uitlanders was as
embarrassing for the English Government as it had been for that of the
Transvaal. Thes