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and prosperous city, which bids fair to take high 

 rank some day in the civilised world. That day 

 will not be during the Krugerian reign, if any 

 human antagonism counts. 



This brutally ignorant tyrant is the very worst 

 danger to his state it is more than absurd to call 

 it a republic possible. His own dear burghers 

 are too ignorant to discover the patent fact that 

 he is, as far as they are concerned, simply acting 

 the wolf costumed as a sheep, and that he is quite 

 cunning enough to carry on his ruthless game 

 likely to be undetected by them for an indefinite 

 period, so they must pay the penalty as best may 

 be. As for the European and advanced Africander 

 population, those of their numbers who are un- 

 subsidised in some way know full well that their 

 noses will be put to the grindstone by Oom Paul 

 when opportunity serves, and for the present make 

 the best use they can of things in general. Every 

 intending immigrant to the Transvaal should be 

 made aware of the fact that at present he would 

 represent a superfluity, as hundreds of capable 

 aspirants for work, skilled ajid unskilled, are 

 incapable of finding it, and, although the wages of 

 those already employed look tempting in print, 



