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stances would simply mean the influx of the 

 hated Uitlanders in sufficient numbers to imperil 

 the existence of the miserable force which under 

 the name of government is allowed to paralyse 

 South African industries and commerce, and which 

 will some day bring about a tragedy should any 

 little pretext be found say, for instance, a noisy 

 political meeting or a street riot for ordering a 

 rifle fire to be poured on the helpless Johannesburg 

 crowd. 



The desire for such an opportunity has more 

 than once been expressed by the members of the 

 Raad ; in it are men who would be delighted to 

 earn promotion by any barbarity of the kind, and 

 the perpetration of which would be a sure method 

 of obtaining it. That such a Liliputian with such 

 a mere handful of ignorant Boers should be allowed 

 to dominate the destinies of South Africa is not 

 merely ludicrous but palpably dangerous, not only 

 in the way above mentioned, but even more so as 

 being another perilous trial of the loyalty of the 

 British and advanced Africanders, who have so 

 often been made the scapegoats of temporary 

 Imperial exigencies. To limit the discussion of 

 Transvaal questions within a radius of quibbles 



