The South-African crisis - pagina 49

THE SOUTH-AFRICAN

gives

without

Secretary

the

to

an absolute right

State

of

45

CRISIS.

and without explanation to veto the

appeal

application even after the completion of that period

The

i).

in fact, says expressly that the Secretary

article,

of State: "May, with or without assigning

any reason,

give or withhold a certificate as he thinks most con-

ducive

from

to this

the

public

decision,,

and no appeal

good,

-).

It

is

shall lie

truly unfortunate that

Kruger did not know at Bloemfontein, the text

Mr.

He

of that article.

could have copied

check-mated Sir Alfred Milner. Yet

it

and thus have

English procedure

b}^

To be

a foreigner obtains only the lesser naturalisation.

Parliament

eligible for

sed

3).

3"0u

must have a

In the period from 1875 to 1878

special

full

England was granted to only three persons.

in

law pas-

naturalisation It follows

therefore that at Bloemfontein England wished to force

Transvaal

the

Uitlanders

dent

in

boasted origin

give

to

Great Britain. that

are

English

.

far

greater privileges to the

than she herself grants to foreigners

Cape

in

placed

extraction,

At the Cape

it is

lised the Boers,

resi-

And when Mr. Chamberlain Colony the

citizens of

Dutch

on the same footing as those of he

strangely

not the English

inverted

the facts.

who have

natura-

but the Boers, who, being the earlier

settlers in the colony, afterwards received the English.

The additional stipulations of the Transvaal law are the same as those which we meet with everywhere. The foreigner must enjoy his own personal liberty. ')

Naturalisation Act, 1870. Victoria, 33. Art. 2.

'^)

Statutes p.

3)

Bill

()

Aug.

119.

1844. Vict. c. GO cf. Cordogan, p. 181, note.

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