n, explain exactly what has happened to cause all the bad
blood between us and our Boer masters.

"Ever since that fatal peace of 1881 the Boer has shown an open contempt
of the Englishman. His arrogance has passed the bounds of belief,
especially in the case of the younger generation, in whom the same ideas
have been instilled.

"We have never got on well together. There has been no sympathy between
us, and while we see them leading indolent lives and spending money
recklessly, we know that that same money comes from our own pockets,
that we, the workers, pay through the nose for the privilege of staying
here and managing the mines, while they look on and live in ease and
luxury.

"The Republic has an income of some five-and-a-half millions per annum.
Think of it! Five-and-a-half millions, when only twenty years ago there
was but 12 shillings 6 pence in their coffers. And of this vast sum
five millions are paid by us, the Uitlander population, while the 70,000
Boers contribute only half a million.

"We should not mind the amount so much, though everything we eat or
drink, or require for the working of our mines, is taxed to the highest;
but what we do grumble at, and what is fast helping to hurry on a
disruption between us, is the fact that we have no voice in its
expenditure. We slave and pay, and they loaf and spend the money
recklessly, investing huge sums in arms and ammunition and defensive
works, and in keeping up a staff of foreigners with which to train their
gunners.

"There is no Government here. It is a corrupt oligarchy, with such
autocratic powers and under such a stubborn and autocratic president
that even the judgments of the courts can be tampered with.

"`Why should you expect citizen rights and representatives in our
Volksraad?' Kruger says when approached on the subject of our
grievances. `You, who came here unbidden to disturb our peace, and come
only with the object of making fortunes and returning home.'

"For years now we have striven for an amicable settlement. It is a
vital question with all of us, for we do not forsake the country after
making money; we invest our wealth here, and we have solid interests for
which we have good cause to fight.

"We even organised a Reform Committee and smuggled in arms. But all our
hopes were dashed by the Jameson raid. That was a fatal mistake. We
wished to press our claims for voting-powers, but not by force. Our
weapons were only for d