The South-African crisis - pagina 41

THE

exempt from

SOUTH-AFRICAN

military service, and that

all

serious for the Boers to

of

lives

their

37

CRISIS.

sons,

pay with their

than

it

more

it is

lives

and the

for the millionaires of

is

the gold mines, to disburse a small percentage of their

enormous dividends. Secondly, that no one invited them

own

to the Transvaal, that they

went

and that

the Transvaal millions of

francs

140

the battle

exported from

imposts on commodities are

love

for the

Transvaal

has

never

Once

the

mines

hearts.

It is true

field.

they sent to London their

monster petition signed wdth 21,684 names, but

known

not

that

is

Kruger furnished to

President

it

Sir

during the conference at Bloemfontein

Milner

Alfred

the

Further,

they will disappear like vultures from

exhausted

are

the

metallised

their

Thus,

the Transvaal they are only 10 per

in

Moreover,

entered

of francs they

Cape

per cent,

15

cent.

accord

millions of pounds.

hundred millions in gold.

five

at the

while

it

of their

1S9S when they had paid the Trans-

in

millions

Transvaal

to

take out of

the}'

for example,

vaal

pay

they

if

upon oath, that a host of these signatures were bogus ones; that we must deduct some five thousand names of women who could possess no

proofs, attested

to

vote

able

to

right

was

proved

to

;

and that the government of Pretoria

oppose

be

to

bona fide

the

a

15000 signatures which

declaration

of confidence

by 23,000 Uitlanders amongst wdiom were found a good number of Englishmen? i). Of the surplus signed

neither 1)

the

Russians,

Livre Vert, VI, 1899,

Parliament, p. 1277.

p.

nor the

riermans (numbering

15.— Livre Bleu, July 1899,

p.

21,22.

Acts o

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