The South-African crisis - pagina 40

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THE SOUTH-AFRICAN

CRISIS.

be preferred because the chief justice of the superior

was deposed ? But in the United States in 1839 President Johnson got over the difficulty by reducing to nine the members of the supreme court and procured a complacent majority of a sort ^). But the government of the Boers is an oligarchy ? Yet every citizen is an elector. The members of Parliament sit for only four years. Every person employed court

Transvaal

the

in

remunerative public

in

service

inelligible

is

Volksraad. Every elector can

officially

even against the President.

Moreover there

2)

for the

lodge complaints is trial

by

Every functionary, judge, or local officer is elected by his fellow citizens, and all the citizens of the Republic, on the other hand, nominate the President

jury.

and even the Commander-in-chief.

must take strange

with logic to make their

liberties

with

definition of oligarchy accord -This

us

not

is

that

but they in

that

that

the

amount paid

forget

to

it is

every

in

other

State,

25

francs

day which proves

a

money differs there entirely London or Edinburgh. Thus their

value

from what

their set tell

add that a white workman gets

same town

the

all this.

The Leonards and

all.

Johannesberg the imposts surpass pro-

at

portionally

Truly, the English

of

in

upon comparison of tw^o quantities which cannot be compared together. And as to the nine-tenths share which the Uitlanders pay to the public treasury the English must permit us to remind grievance

them 1)

of

is

based

two things

Bryce The America))

;

first

Co)n)})o>tiveallh

that

I.

the

p. 367

.

2)

Uitlanders are

Constit. 1896. a. 42, 73.

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