moneys from the Government, without security, to carry on their trade.  Shortly, the concessionnaires are entitled to charge 90s. a case for dynamite, while it could be bought if there were no concession for about 30s. a case.  It may be stated incidentally, that Mr. Wolmarans, a member of the Government, has been for years challenged to deny that he is enjoying a royalty of 2s. on every case of dynamite sold, and that he has up to the present moment neglected to take up the challenge.  Proper municipal government is denied to us, and we all know how much this means with regard to health, comfort, and the value of property.  The Statute Books are disfigured with enactments imposing religious disabilities; and the English language, the language spoken by the great bulk of the people, is denied all official recognition.  The natural result of the existing condition of things is that the true owners of the mines are those who have invested no capital in them—­the Government, the railway concessionnaires, the dynamite concessionnaires, and others.  The country is rich, and under proper government could be developed marvellously, but it cannot stand the drain of the present exactions.  We have lived largely upon foreign capital, and the total amount of the dividends available for shareholders in companies is ridiculously small as compared with the aggregate amount of capital invested in mining ventures.  Some day the inevitable result upon our credit and upon our trade will be forced upon us.

HATRED OF THE SAXON.

There is no disguising the fact that the original policy of the Government is based upon intense hostility to the English-speaking population, and that even against the enfranchised burgher of this State there is the determination to retain all power in the hands of those who are enjoying the sweets of office now, and naturally the grateful crowd of relations and friends and henchmen ardently support the existing regime; but there are unmistakable signs, and the President fears that the policy which he has hitherto adopted will not be sufficient to keep in check the growing population.  It seems the set purpose of the Government to repress the growth of the industry, to tax it at every turn, to prevent the working classes from settling here and making their homes and surrounding themselves with their families, and there is no mistaking the significance of the action of the President when he opposed the throwing open of the town lands of Pretoria on the ground that ’he might have a second Johannesburg there,’ nor that of his speech upon the motion for the employment of diamond drills to prospect Government lands, which he opposed hotly on the ground that ’there is too much gold here already.’

THE POLICY OF FORCE.