Taxes — Monopolies — Poverty 



of the land has during the last fifty years 

 passed into the possession of this class. 



The amount of money left by passing 

 steamers must be very considerable. In the 

 palmy days of Johannesburg, the homeward- 

 bound Cape mail, with much money burning 

 holes in many pockets, must have been a 

 veritable gold mine. And nowadays huge 

 steamers taking American tourists to the 

 Mediterranean call here and remain thirty-six 

 hours. It is said that these tourists are very 

 close-fisted, but even the post-cards they pur- 

 chase must run into a goodly sum. It is to 

 be feared that the money does not always go 

 in the first instance into very worthy hands. 

 Our excellent house-keeper, whose uncon- 

 vential views are a perpetual joy, especially 

 as regards the dignity of certain professions 

 which we regard as disreputable and some of 

 which must be nameless, has thrown light on 

 this subject. We asked what had become of 

 a certain John, formerly one of our hammock- 

 bearers, whom we had not seen acting in that 

 capacity lately. " Oh no," she replied, " John 

 does not carry hammocks any more ; he is 

 a very respectable man now ; he is a guider." 



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