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merely funds for corrupt practices, or loans and 

 casual assets are applied to pay for armaments 

 as useless as they are minatory. I may say that 

 the South African public has confidence in the 

 existing Imperial Ministry, and add, with equal 

 sincerity, that it is pretty certain that any recur- 

 rence to the tortuous sentimental impolicies of 

 former days would be illustrated by the sorry 

 spectacle of " wigs on the green." 



Although cornered by the result of the unfor- 

 tunate Jameson raid (which would, perhaps, have 

 been dubbed a " coup d'etat " if it had been suc- 

 cessful), and as a consequence of the advantage of 

 position accruing to Paul Kruger from the cata- 

 strophe, the vulpine cunning of the old Boer was 

 more than a match for the diplomatic forms by 

 which Mr. Chamberlain was bound in the sub- 

 sequent discussion of the matter. Every one here 

 who is worth recognition places the utmost con- 

 fidence in his (Mr. Chamberlain's) honesty, ability, 

 and patriotism. 



Certain Ministerial utterances on the subject of 

 the ridiculous and insulting terms of the indemnity 

 demanded of the Chartered Company by the 

 Transvaal Government encourage the hope that 



