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But the Cape Colony, although emerging rapidly 

 from its troubles and its strangely antique ways, is 

 sadly lacking in a strong and wholesome tonic. 

 Despite the failure of large numbers of the Boers, 

 for some years past the old Dutch party has been 

 rising in power (a power but too vigorously stimulated 

 by the Transvaal War, the disaster of Majuba Hill, 

 and Mr. Gladstone's inglorious surrender), until 

 Cape ministers, though nominally Britons and 

 representatives of British ideas, obey but the 

 dictates and carry out the political traditions of 

 the Afrikander Bund. It is difficult for us in this 

 country to fully comprehend such a state of affairs. 

 Under this malignant and overpowering influence, 

 immigration has entirely ceased, and the Dutch 

 party loudly declare that they will neither tolerate 

 more settlers, nor the ultilization of the vast 

 tracts of land now lying fallow and neglected. 

 They tell us in fact that there is enough for them- 

 selves and no more. Mr. Arnold White, in his 

 experiences in connection with his model settlement 

 of Wolseley in British Kaffraria, a settlement 

 boycotted and almost strangled in its infancy by 

 officials of the Cape Government, can bear testimony 

 to the extraordinary difficulties thrown in the way of 

 organised attempts at colonization. 



It is high time that Englishmen knew these 

 things, and that they were ended once and for all. 

 It cannot be tolerated that a rich field of emigration, 

 such as the Cape, should lie longer fallow and 

 unknown. 



The tonic of new blood — British blood — and 

 new ideas is urgently needed at this moment in 

 Cape Colony, and the time is ripe for a fresh and 



