rch, 1900.)]

3.--_Salaries of Boer Officials._

The salaries of the Transvaal officials amounted, in 1886, to L51,831;
in 1898, to L1,080,382; and in 1899, they were estimated at L1,216,394.
Salaries amounting to L1,216,394 for 30,000 electors! Such are the
figures of the Transvaal Budget.

Here we find undoubtedly a great superiority over other countries; and
the officials in receipt of such salaries would look down with
profoundest contempt on the much more modest pay of their European
colleagues if they knew anything about them. Each elector represents
more than L40 of official salaries. At the same rate the pay of the
French Government officials would amount annually to about four hundred
and thirty-two millions pounds sterling (L432,000,000)! This is not all.
In 1897, a member of the Volksraad asked what had become of some
L2,400,000 which had been paid over to Transvaal officials, in the form
of advances of salary. He received no reply.

4.--_The Debit Side of the Boer Budget._

In a pamphlet, by M. Edouard Naville, _La Question du Transvaal_, and
also in the _Revue Sud-Africaine_ of October 22nd, 1899, we find a list
showing the expenditure of the Pretoria Government, from which may be
gathered the extraordinarily rapid rate of increase: In the fourteen
years--1886-99--the budget expenditure amounted to L37,031,000, of which
nine-tenths have been defrayed by the gold industry. From information
supplied by the Government of Pretoria itself, we find that five sources
have absorbed more than half:--

Salaries, &c. L7,003,898
Military expenditure 2,236,942
Special expenditure 2,287,559
Sundry services 1,581,042
Public works 5,809,996
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L18,919,437
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Leaving a surplus of L18,111,601
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Under the headings of "special," and "sundry services," are concealed
the secret service expenditure, remuneration to influential electors,
and the various political expedients by which Mr. Krueger has proved "his
intellectual and moral" superiority.

The official salaries of 1899, estimated at L1,216,000, included a sum
of L326,640 for the police. We have seen what kind of police it is.

The legislature is composed of two Volksraads, each consisting of
twenty-nine members; or fifty-eight in all. Now the estimate of s