alaries
for the legislature is L43,960, or about L758 each, more than double the
allowances of the French senators and deputies.

It is somewhat imprudent of Dr. Kuyper to refer to the educational
expenditure. The expenditure amount allocated for the education of the
children of Uitlanders in 1896, was L650, or at the rate 1s. 10d. per
head, while the gross estimate for education in the budget for that year
amounted to L63,000, which works thus out at a cost of L8 6s. 1d. per
head for the Boer children. Dr. Mansveldt, Head of the Education
Department of the Transvaal, a Hollander, seems to have but one aim: to
enforce the use of the _taal_, the Boer patois--a language spoken by no
one else--the use of which keeps them in isolated ignorance. The English
language is banned.

5.--_New Taxes._

This revenue, employed almost exclusively for the benefit of the Boers,
did not suffice for the insatiable government in Pretoria. At a meeting
of the Chamber of Mines, on November 21st, 1898, Mr. Rouliot summarized
a statement by Mr. Krueger in the Raad, as follows:--

"But recently, Mr. Krueger had said he would give the mines the
chance of establishing themselves before a percentage should be
imposed upon their returns; and that no tax would be levied till
the diggings had been completed, and the machinery set up. It
appeared to him, however, that the government intended to
appropriate some of their profits, although it had given no
facilities for the preparatory works on the mines, during which it
should be remembered that their capital had been burdened by
exceptionally heavy indirect taxation. The moment that capital
began to be productive, it was to be taxed." (_Blue Book_, No.
9345, p. 48.)

In four-and-twenty hours, Mr. Krueger had unexpectedly managed to pass a
law levying a new tax of 2-1/2 per cent. of the gross production from
mynpachts (mining leases), and 5 per cent. from the gross production of
other mines. In his report of January 26th, 1899, Mr. Rouliot says: "Had
this new tax formed part of a general scheme for the readjustment of
taxation, it might have been defended, but those who are considered best
qualified to express the views of the government, content themselves by
saying that it has the right to take a share of the profits realised by
the mines and add that this tax is only a beginning."

6.--_Attempt to Raise a Loan._

Not content with in