er North, and would have been deprived of the use of the
railway line to Bloemfontein. Moreover, when peace was restored, he
would have remained independent. The Memorandum alludes to the
prosperity of the Transvaal, but forgets to mention that the only
share taken in it by the Boers has been an ever-increasing
appropriation of the wealth created by the Uitlanders' industry,
capital and labour.

"The Memorandum mentions also the laws passed annually, but is
careful to omit law No. 1 of 1897, by which Mr. Krueger was
empowered to exact from the judges a declaration that decisions of
the Volksraad would be enforced by them as legal enactments,
whether they were in agreement with the constitutions or not, and
to dismiss at a moment's notice any one of them whose response
might seem to him unsatisfactory.

"We have already spoken of the concluding sentences in the
Memorandum. Messrs. A. Fischer, C.H. Wessels, A.D.W. Wolmarans
"appeal to the _Conference de l'Union Interparlementaire_ to take
in hand their cause." The Executive Committee has, as has already
been said, ruled the question out of order. This decision is not to
be regretted considering the tendencies of the delegates'
Memorandum; it does not help their cause any more than does Dr.
Kuyper's article."

M. Pauliat complained bitterly of the decision. A progressive member of
the Belgian deputation, Mr. Lorand, tried to revive the question on the
2nd of August by means of the following resolution:

"The tenth Conference of the Interparliamentary Union for
International Arbitration now meeting in Paris being cognisant of
acknowledging the resolutions of the Conference at the Hague, and
being desirous to express its gratitude to all who have contributed
towards its results; trusts, that in future the Powers will avail
themselves of the means put at their disposal for the amicable
settlement of international disputes and regret that "they have not
done so" in the actual conflict between England and the South
African Republics."

Upon this, M. Beernaert, with all authority conferred upon him by his
position as the delegate of the Belgian Government at the Hague
Conference, observed that the Transvaal was not in a position to avail
itself of the resolution arrived at by the Conference--because that
Conference was no lon