The South-African crisis - pagina 51

THE SOUTH-AFRICAN

—

the idea of adoption into a /arhily being

existent

and destined to remain always as the

admissible still

47

CRISIS.

directing principle of all naturalisation.

The vigorous

measures which the Volksraad then took were

entirel}'

Every European government under similar

justified.

circumstances would have adopted

And

methods.

still

more draconic

the fact that the Volksraad ventured im-

mediately to lower the franchise quaUfication from fourteen to seven years, only explains itself by the experience that those

who

really intended to remain,

were

in a short

time metamorphosized into Boer citizens and had made

common

them against England, while the

cause with

majority of the population of adventurers, having no other intention than to turn their backs on the Transvaal as soon as their fortunes for a naturalisation fitted

by

it

the all

first

little

which submitted those who bene-

to military service.

Xote moreover that themselves

were made, cared very

in Natal

where the English find

overcrowded with Indian coolies they are wish

to

control

in

immigration.

to

local

exclude the affairs

"off'-comes,,

from

and even to stop their

Mr. Younghusband

tells

the cry "loose from England" appears to to the danger of being supplanted

us indeed that

them

preferable

by the strangers

i).

Again, to form a thoroughly sound judgment on this question

it

is

well to observe, that all naturalisation

detaches subjects from the nation to which they belong

them with another nation of which they should become adopted sons. What then are we to

1)

incorporate

p.

161.

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