of hope and enthusiasm into the hearts of your
fellow-workers, and that God may abundantly fill you with spiritual
and physical energy in the fulfilment of the great enterprise on
which you have entered.

"_August 26_, 1908."

The address of the Bloemfontein Town Council very carefully avoids any
reference to the proposed Over-Sea Colony. Perhaps the whole secret of
South Africa's indifference to it is revealed in the following extract
from a paper, whose name we omit, lest any appearance of hostility to
any locality or any element in that enormous country should seem to have
crept into our feelings here.

After half a column of compliments as to his good work and intentions
the editorial gentleman, not of Bloemfontein, goes on with his great
"But" as follows:--

"But the social elevation, or the spiritual conversion of the boozy
scum of a European nation may not be advanced at the cost of the
well-being of our own people. We protest most earnestly against
that at once. It does not matter whether he has fixed his eye upon
Rhodesia or the Kalahari desert--these lands belong geographically
to South Africa, and we need it for its own peoples. True, we have
plenty of territory, even for others who may wish to come and
settle amongst us, and wish to be of us.

"But we have no room for the 'submerged tenth' of any other nation
whatever."

In vain did The General keep explaining in every land he visited that he
had never thought of, or made any plan for, "dumping" crowds of wastrels
on any country, but only such people as had been tested and proved fit
for such an opportunity as they could not get in overcrowded countries.
There was always the same loud and continued applause for "his noble
work," and, then, almost everywhere--not often with the honest
outspokenness of that newspaper--the same "I pray thee have _me_ (my
country) excused from receiving this Colony."

And then the old man would give the tiny handfuls who, thanks to insane
constitutionalism, have been left to monopolise vast areas of the
earth, warnings of the future that may be remembered by generations to
come. Whilst in South Africa he was gladdened by receiving the following
report as to the multitudes he was sending out to Canada:--

"Emigrated from October, 1903, to July 31, 1908, 36,308; of whom
were assisted by loan, 9,400; total amounts advanced, L38,375;
total