The South-African crisis - pagina 47

THE SOUTH-AFRICAN

And

faith of Mr. Kruger,

good

as for the personal

43

CRISIS.

how

can his declaration of 1881 be binding upon him under circumstances

changed in 1898?

entirely

In 1881

it

was only a question of a few hundred Englishmen. In 1898 clear

was the question of a deluge of them. It is then that Mr. Chamberlain by making the Queen it

her

in

speech

from the throne publicly accuse Mr.

Kruger of having broken

qualified, while

vening on behalf of his clients for a

and even

was guilty of

his promises,

misconduct which cannot be

by

inter-

five years franchise,

for a redistribution of seats,

he violated the

Convention of London, without needing to give to that

Convention

another impoit than that which he had Nevertheless, already in the

himself attributed to

it.

month

became rash enough

his

of August, he

illegal

intervention

to support

with open menace, while he

declared that the English Clovernment "Having taking

hand the demands of the Uitlanders,

in

necessary to press

if

them by

is

resolved

force, i)"

however that to thrust aside the sophisms of Mr. Chamberlain we need not yet assume It

is

evident

that the Transvaal law was not wrong.

To judge

of

we must have recourse where the circumstances

the intrinsic value of that law, to the study of electoral rights

are similar, lisation

land the

and to the study of principles of natura-

under heterogeneous conditions.

What Eng-

demanded, we remember, was the concession of not the lesser naturalisation for from

complete,

;

the outset the end she pursued was to secure for the

1)

Blue Book,

c.

7521, p. 45.

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