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difficult to estimate the amount of cheek which 

 prompted the delivery of such an abnormal demand 

 for indemnity on the part of the Transvaal, which, 

 even if we exclude the morality item, amounts to 

 no less than a fraud. The Jameson raid was over 

 in a few days ; no cattle or other property was 

 looted ; every Boer met with was treated well ; 

 and the raid itself was only an episode of the 

 revolutionary attempts at Johannesburg, made with 

 a view to mitigate intolerable conditions imposed 

 by a Government living on a legalised system of 

 plunder, and applying the greater part of the 

 funds so acquired to enrich its personnel. 



Even Paul Kruger, destitute as he is of any of 

 the refined or generous instincts of an ordinary 

 civilised Christian, might, one would think, reflect 

 advantageously on the fact that at least ninety-nine 

 per cent of the herd of golden calves he is now 

 enabled to 'worship are the produce of the sweat 

 and industry and capital of the hated Uitlander, 

 without which the treasures of the land would have 

 been still embedded in its rocks, and he himself 

 could have achieved no better position than that 

 of the Presidency of a bankrupt state on a salary 

 of, say, 800 a year at the utmost, the half of 



