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zen or the country, toward the support of
which he paid eighteen-twon ontieths OF tho rev.
enue. In which his children had been born. and
in which he had made his home. but in the
mean while he would be man without coun-
| try and with no Government to which he could
| turn for help or to which he could look to re-
dress wrong. This uncertainty OF obtaining
the franchise was the chief grievance.
There were many other grievances, and
though Mr. Hammond has refused. on ac-
count OF his pledge to the Boer Govern
| ment, TO discuss them with me. other men,
| oers of the Reform Committee have spoken
and written OF them freely. and they are
| 30 well known that they are described as
tho admitted grievances" When tho Uit-
| lander first came to the Transvaal, the
revenue Of tine country was S375.0o0; it is now
slo0oo.o00. and. as have said. the Uitlander
finds seighteen-twentieths OF that total revenue.
and yet 1t has been practically impossible for
him to obtain oven an education for his children
| In the State schools which his money supported.
The sale OF monopolies by the Government to d!f.
ferent companies made his OK penscs xcessive be-
| yond reason, and tho mismanagcment OF tho
| railroads led to delay IN the transportation Of
machinery and Of perishable goods. which
robbed legitimate business of any profit.
| Another evil arose from the Liquor Trust
which gave the complete control of all the
one firm. which manufactured a poisonous
9us,ity Of Shisssy any, sold i without re.
were incapsettsied from attending to the, work
not regarded BY the Boer Government as their
Jews. who handled most OF the liquor sold on
the Rand, were able to place their canteens
shaft II they wished to do so. with the result
that the kafhr boys were constantly drinking.
open @ hSfs aSStinr A among ,hemselves. s and and
suffering from the most serious Academia.
GRIEVANCES OF The FOREIGNERS IN THE
TkASsvAAL.
Edgar p. Rathbone, late mining inspector OF
the east and central districts Of the Witwaters-
rand under the Boer Government. said in q re-
day morning when the natives have to 20 TO work
after their pay day. one-third of the men are laid
se man
and to go ptS The eaEes as soon as they get nm
risk under the mining REGULATIONS in having q
drunken Kafir a. work in the mine.
man man to % tho . surface again, In my own own OK.
perience | have frequently had to order
unit to be intrusted with drilling or any other
work You must also remember that 1t
every esso of to
among some hundreds or thousands OF Kaf-
Sna soG at to
about their work In the mine have no heaita-
tion In sayinE that large proportion OF The
cause"
the Government was the sale Of dynamite.
which gave one man the exclusive riEh. to
miners supplies on tho condition that he
would mNnutac,nre Il in the Transvaal; ; He
bought boz R % low quality Of dynamite IN Germany @ n.y.
changed the wrappers IN his so-ca!led manu-.
,sa sGd thai the
which n have &c oeear5ed In the Rand ar Are aISey
i2 G To
use.
BrRpESsoME FREIGHT RATES on COAL
Netherlands Railroad is. also interesting: the
coal deposits RON parallel with the gold mines,
lands Railroad charged from I'd. to IS a ton per
Ing between the gold ie!ds ana the gold mines
SO that the coal which originally, sold for
freight per mile in the United states is
Ghe shfeeqaaFteps TsH q pr mem cent. which ,hrows
lnrid liSh, on h what the essning. R,rn, muss
il charged from six TO twenty: four cents per
mile. There was very little profit in this for the
gold mines that the different companies pur.
permiss sion to use the land ALREADY. owned, they
mapped out railroad over W hich they proposed
Boers heard Of this they passed u law torbiddins
them to build this railroad. and later when the
carts. with traction engines they were for
bIdden to do that also. Freight can be- sent
English railroad which stops at the border Of
the Transvaal. the rest Of the haul being made
This This pol point Of the border is only forty miles from
Johannesburg Or II can be taken In moro
ray r9 s. ea
In order to make the Uitlanders use tho
into the Golfers OF the Government railroad.
the Netherlands Company allowed tho
three or four weeks, and subjected It to
the Uttlanders Into abandoning the use Of
tnen e 1" do this the titienders organised SYSTEM
Of OK carts and started M to to carry their freight
closed the drifts" as tho fords OF the rivers
are called. and 50 prevented their crossing II
open them again.
There are few instance o. the laws and
ingsympathy as free and enlightened republic,
and which compares and not unfavorably, with
the free and enlightened republics OF Central
America.
BEdISSISos OF THE FATEFUL MOVEMENT.
The spirit of discontent caused by these griey-
Rnces grew slowly and showed ITSELF when 10
irst found expression in tho form of perfectly
constitutional agitati9n:, In May: ls94, $1,000
rights OF the franchise and II is on record in tho
minutes Of that legislative body that this ,Reti.
in itself was not soothing 10 the petitioners.
especially as II came from tho representa-
tives OF those Of the inhabitants who were In
the minority. for even at that time the Uitland-
ers greatly outnumbered the original settlers OF
the TrAnsyaal. Two months later another Pc
tition, signed this time by $4,000 Inhabitants,
was received by the Volksraad In the same
manner one OF Its members. indeed. going so
far as 10 rise ana say: III .you want the fran
chise why don't you fight for itf
His invitation was accepted later, when the
Inhabitants OF johannesburg, finding there was
no help to be obtained through the sacred
right OF petition" organized the Reform Com
lrIttee and prepared themselves 70 take what
arms am not pretending here TO defend The
revoutionists; ! only wish TO tell what led
no matter what the Reform Committee nave
done or wished 10 do as reyolnttonists, they
were at least not fRithless to Jameson. who be-
came one OF their own party. and who was one