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fited by the mining industry from a pecuniary point of view is 
illustrated by the fact that the public revenue in 1894 was six 
times that in 1886. The Boers did not foster the foreign com- 
munity on the Rand, in spite of its beneficial influence upon 
their finances. On the contrar}^, they held aloof, and actually 
threw many obstacles in the way of the progress of the industry. 
They evidently regarded the immigration as a new and insidious 
form of British invasion. The independence which they had 
achieved by remarkable efforts and sacrifices was jeopardized b}^ 
a peaceful inroad, and they were in danger of losing their free- 
dom by a process of absorption into a larger community growing 
in their own midst. 
That they should resist this new form of conquest by every 
means available to them was inevitable. Indeed, any other 
course would have belied their entire history. The most evident 
means of retaining control of their own destiny was to render 
the acquirement of the franchise difficult if not impossible, and 
this perhaps indispensable measure was promptly taken. 
So far as I can learn, both the liberal or progressive party and 
the conservative or Dopper party of the republic are in accord 
as to the polic}'’ of practically denying the franchise to foreigners. 
On other points they differ. The conservatives, who are repre- 
sented by the present administration, do not include among their 
members a sufficient number of educated and ])rofessionalunen 
to fill the offices rendered needful by the new order of things. 
They cannot draw largely on the opposition to fill these places, 
and few of the Cape Boers, being British subjects, are available 
for the execution of the anti-English policy.* Hence it is to 
Holland that President Kruger is almost forced to turn for edu- 
cated men of Dutch si)eech to carry out the Dopper program. 
The railway, too, from Delagoa bay to Johannesburg and other 
})oints in the Transvaal is-in the hands of the Netherlands Rail- 
way Company,! a fact which tends greatly to increase the inllu- 
ence of the Dutch in the Transvaal. It would also seem to be 
a deliberate plan with the conservative [)arty to offset and mini- 
mize English influence as far as possible Ijy tliat of the Nether- 
lands, from which the republic has nothing to fear. 
* Acconling lo Mr Weasels, in ft lecture deli vereil in 1H04, tlio I'enr of lietniyiil to P'ng. 
liiml is fi-ftiikly stated iis ii sutticient reiison for not appointing Cape Boers to office in 
tlie Transvaal. 
t'l'lie concession for this road was originally conferred under President Burgers in 
187'i, hut I lie road was only completed so as to connect witli tlie Cape system in IHOI. 1 1 
is sai<l to he the most jirolitahle railway in tlie world. The repuhlic has the right to 
take possession of it. 
