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hesitated to demand and obtain satisfaction for 

 have been submitted to by the so-called "para- 

 mount" South African Power. A member of the 

 President's family, in the service of the Executive, 

 has been ostentatiously promoted simply because 

 he vituperated our Gracious Queen, not only as a 

 sovereign but as a woman, in language which would 

 have shocked even the most erudite in Billingsgate 

 slang. Other officials of less note have been 

 equally fortunate in that they supplied our enemies 

 in war-time with ammunition and other assistance. 

 And so things jolt along somehow for the present, 

 but the time must soon come when everybody 

 interested in the prosperity of South Africa or in 

 the honour or prestige of the Empire will demand 

 that the Transvaal Government shall be wheeled 

 into line, compelled to become a humble unit in 

 the ranks of civilised nations, or be incorporated 

 once for all within Imperial limits. I sincerely 

 hope that no one will come to the conclusion that 

 I am prejudiced against the Boers, as a community. 

 Indeed, I ought to know them well, and I feel 

 convinced that under improved political and social 

 circumstances they are capable of unlimited im- 

 provement, as their faults, such as they are, are 



