Swiss trader,--there is
no difference. The general feeling among these is against the coloured
race being educated and evangelized.... Only what can and must be said
is this, that _the Laws of the English Colonies are just_; those of the
Boer States are the negation of every right, civil and religious, which
the black man ought to have." I have similar testimonies from
missionaries (not Englishmen); but I regret to say that these good men
hesitate to have their names published,--not from selfish reasons,--but
from love of their missionary work and their native converts, to whom
they fear they will never be permitted to return if the ascendancy of
the present Transvaal Government should continue, and Mr. Kruger should
learn that they have published what they have seen in his country. It is
to be hoped that these witnesses will feel impelled before long to speak
out. The writer just quoted, says:--"I firmly believe that the native
question is at the bottom of all this trouble. The time is coming when,
cost what it will, we missionaries must speak out."

In connection with this subject, I give here a quotation from the "Daily
News," March 21st, 1900. The article was inspired by a thoughtful speech
of Sir Edward Grey. The writer asks the reason of the loss of the
capacity in our Liberal party to deal with Colonial matters; and
replies: "It is to be found, we think, in want of imagination and in
want of faith. There are many among us who have failed, from want of
imagination, to grasp that we have been living in an age of expansion;
or who, recognising the fact, have from want of faith seen in it
occasion only for lamentation and woe. Failure in either of these
respects is sure to deprive a British party of popular support. For the
'expansion of England' now, as in former times, proceeds from the people
themselves, and faith in the mission of England is firmly planted in the
popular creed." We recall a noble passage in which Mr. Gladstone stated
with great clearness the inevitable tendency of the times in which we
live. "There is," he said, "a continual tendency on the part of
enterprising people to overstep the limits of the Empire, and not only
to carry its trade there, but to form settlements in other countries
beyond the sphere of a regularly organized Government, and there to
constitute a civil Government of their own. Let the Government adopt,
with mathematical rigour if you like, an opposition to annexation, and
what