ers and foreigners to help them govern their own country. He has
pictured the woes of the Uitlanders because they are not allowed to
govern, and because their children are not taught English in the schools,
and moreover, because they are made to pay heavy taxes for the gold they
mine and carry away. They have still another grievance. Any favor that the
Boers show at all is shown to Germans, and not to Englishmen. The Boers
will not allow any of the products of Cape Colony within their borders,
but prefer to do their trading with Germany. A dreadful offence truly,
that they choose their own markets!

The Commission has heard Mr. Rhodes with great seriousness and a good deal
of sympathy.

So far, strange to say, it does not seem to have occurred to any member of
the august assembly which is making the inquiry, that the Uitlanders are
mere squatters in the Transvaal, and that if they don't like the ways of
the country they are visiting, there is nothing to prevent them from
packing up their traps, and going back whence they came.

Mr. Cecil Rhodes has not attempted to hide the fact that he did his best
to stir up the uneasy feeling in Johannesburg that led to the Jameson
Raid.

He admits that he sent Dr. Jameson to the borders of the Transvaal with
orders to hold himself in readiness for an emergency.

He does not allow that he is responsible for the actual raid itself,
because Dr. Jameson acted without orders when making it.

He does not deny, however, that he hoped to overthrow the Boer Government,
and President Krueger.

One of the members of the committee asked him if he meant to make himself
President in the place of Oom Paul, but he denied that he had any such
idea.

He gave, as a final reason why the cause of the Uitlanders was a just
cause, that "no body of Englishmen will ever remain in any place for any
period, without insisting on their civil rights."

There is quite a sprinkling of Americans among the Uitlanders, but it is
to be hoped that they understand the duties of citizenship too well to be
among the discontents who demand its privileges without being willing to
undertake its penalties.

The Boer Parliament has, since the sitting of the committee in London,
refused the Uitlanders' last appeal for a voice in the government, and it
is thought that England will refuse to pay the money damages claimed by
the Republic.

It is thought that the result of the matter will be a war with the Boers,
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