e Individual according
to Boer Ideas.--5. The Murder of Mrs. Appelbe 42

CHAPTER VIII.

Boer Oligarchy 48

CHAPTER IX.

THE GOLD MINES.

1. "That Gold is mine!"--2. The Proportion of Gold per Ton.--3.
Cost of Production.--4. A Gold Mine is an Industrial
Exploitation.--5. Distribution of the Gold Production.--6. Cost
of Production, and the Transvaal.--What the "Vultures" brought 52

CHAPTER X.

FINANCIAL POLICY OF THE BOERS.

1. Receipts of the Boer Exchequer.--2. Budget Assessment of the
Burghers.--3. Salaries of Boer Officials.--4. The Debit side of
the Boer Budget.--5. New Taxes.--6. Attempt to raise a Loan.--7.
Fleecing the Uitlander 59

CHAPTER XI.

MONOPOLIES IN THE TRANSVAAL AND THE NETHERLANDS RAILWAY
COMPANY.

1. Article XIV. and the Monopolies.--2. The Dynamite
Monopoly.--3. Railways.--4. The Drift Question.--5. Methods of
Exaction 66

CHAPTER XII.

CAPITALIST INTRIGUES AND THE WAR.

1. A war of Capitalists.--2. A Local Board.--3. A deliberating
Council.--4. Timidity of the Chamber of Mines.--5. The Petition
and the Despatch of May 10th 73

CHAPTER XIII.

THE FRANCHISE.

1. Impossible Comparisons.--2. Policy of Re-action.--3. The
Bloemfontein Conference 80

CHAPTER XIV.

THE FRANCHISE AFTER THE CONFERENCE OF BLOEMFONTEIN.

1. A Krueger Trick.--2. The Bill passed by the Volksraad--3.
Pretended Concessions.--4. The Joint Commission.--5.
Bargaining.--6. The Conditions, and Withdrawal of Proposals.--7.
The Franchise is Self-Government 87

CHAPTER XV.

THE SUZERAINTY OF ENGLAND AND THE SOUTH AFRICAN
REPUBLIC.

1. Who Raised the Question of Suzerainty?--2. The Suzerainty and
the Conference of the Hague 95

CHAPTER XVI.

THE ARBITRATION QUESTION.

1. How the Transvaal interprets Arbitration.--2. Mr.
Chamberlain's Conditions 101

CHAPTER XVII.

THE BOER ULTIMATUM.

1. Dr. Kuyper's Logic.--2. Despatches of 8th and 22nd
September.--3. The Ultimatum 108

CHAPTER XVIII.

DR. KUYPER'S FINAL METAPHOR.

1. Where are the Pe