The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-03-04
cattle were seized and April and his
wives and children forcibly retained in

s(w!.en April having enlisted the sympathy
s Of some white PEOPLE was enabled to make
an appeaD characterized SPrinsloo's con-
duct as brutal in the extreme, and
fragrant abuse Of power and gave judg-
ment cair7st Prinsloo with all costs. With
in a few days of this decision being arrived
at the President addressed a meeting
of buryhers and announced that the
Government had reimbursed Prinsloo,
adding. Notwithstanding the judgment
of the High Court, we consider PrinSloo
to have been right.
a mine-owner, to meet the difficulty o.
labor, imported a tribe-men, women and
children, and put them upon an adjacent
farm. There is, however. a law known
as the Squatters Law. which, framed
with that peculiar cunning for which
the Transvaal Government have achieved
a reputation, has the appearance of aim
ing a the improvement of the labor
supply, whilst in effect it does the OPP
posite.
It provides that not more than five fami-
lies may reside upon one farm. the 'fanli-
ly" being an adult male with or without
women and children. The law at first
seems to prevent the squattng together
Of natives in large numbers and in idle
ness AS a matter of fact, however, the
law is not applied in cases of Boer far
mers. From the President down, the Beers
own farms on which hundreds of families
ere allowed to remain. paying tneir hut
tax and contributing largely to the pros
peritv of the landowner. OF course in the
case of the uitlander there seems TO be
a principle at stake, which the mine
owner learned to his cost, for no sooner
had he located his tribe and provided
for them than an official came down TO
him and removed all except the five allow
ed by law and distributed the rest among
his friends ard relations.
a dead set has always been made against
education and some OF the legislators
have been known to express the opinion
that education was not. by any means
desirable. as it taught the rising genera.
tions to look with contempt on their
fathers, and further there is on record
a debate in which members poiuteciiS Sp-
posed the granting Of facilities for the edu
cation of their own Womcnllind. on the
ground that presently the women would be
found reading books and newspapers, In
stead of doing their work, and would
soon get to know more than their IA thers,
husbands, and brothers, and would, as a
consequence, quickly get out of hand 1t
never occurred to these worthy gentlemen
that the proper course would be to edu-
cate the men.
SUPER HssICN OF. SCHOOL.
Johannesburg contributed nine-tcnths
of the sixty-three thousand pounds ster-
ling spent on education and received six
hundred and fifty pounds to educate its
children To further illustrate the Bocr
tactics in REGARD to the educa ton of
utlanders children, l may mention that
a bill advocated by DR.. Mausvett.' for
the total suppression of private schools
mon-government schools) was only reject
ed by a majority of two.
Let me briefly refer to the dynamite
monopoly. The right was granted to one
man to manufacture and to sell at a
price nearly two-hundred per cent. over
that at which it could be imported It was
found, upon investiga ton, after some
Years Of agitation, that the factory was
merely a depot for manufactured articles
An ilvestiga ton held by order OF the
Volksraad exposed the imposition, ana
the concession was cancelled. to the JOY
of the uitianders. But the triumph was
not for long, for within few months the
monopoly was revised in an lntlnlteiy
more obnoxious form. 1t was no" caiieo
Government.
Government monopoly, but "The Agen-
cy'' was bestowed upon a partner of the
gentleman who had formerly ow1fed tHe
concession and the president upheld this
action, but the Land en- Volk. the pretoria
Dutch newspaper, exposed the Wnole
transaction, including the system Of brib-
cry by which the concessionalres secured
their renewal, and among other things
made the charge, which it has continued
to repeat ever since, that Mr.. l. NJ. "A.
Woobnaraus, member Of the Executive,
received a commission of one shilling per
case sold during the continuance OF the
Agency, Zone shilling per case estimated
to yield ten thousand pounds per year)
If anyone should doubt the corruption
OF the Transvaal should like to draw his
attention to the Salau Railroad Company,
and to the fact that q members OF the
first Volksraad out of %. the Vlce-Presl-
dent, the son-in-z-w and the private
secretary of the President, the Secretary
Of the Volksraad and the Minute Keeper
of the Executive, each and all received
brides. and the amount that each received
is too we'll known to mention.
Here are some Of the rlonopoies for
1899 from the official list: Dynamite, rail-
ways spirits. iron. sugar. wool, bricks,
eartnenware, paper, candles, soap. calcium,
carbide, OIL, MATCHES, cocoa, bottles, jams,
etc. The year 1899 is marked by Krug-
ers hard fight for the dynamite monopoly,
which, if the suggestion of the uitlanderi
had been carried out. would have brought
six hundred thousand pounds sterling G.
year to the State.
In speaking of these dry facts 1t may
be we'll to mention that the salaries OF the
Transvaal officials are sufficient to pay
forty pounds per citizen. OF course I
do not refer to the English and Arneri-
cans of Johannesburg, who. as l have said
before, some people would infer, had a
right to slave for Kruger and his favor
ties The immortality OF the Transvaal
is sickening, and as I write hundreds of
cases come before me. but let me quote
from the Beers:
June 2ith 1891. 200 vouchers were found
wanting from the yearly accounts. and
no explanation could be given. Also 1900
pounds had been given on loan to Boer
general store-a private merchandise VEN
ture.
June 9TH At the debate on the question
of appointing a State Financier, VINO
would among other things he held respon-
sihle for the disappearance of vouchers.
the Auditor-General said that he did
not want an official of that nature. who
would be always snivelling about his
books.
BORE ABUSE.
Some have suggested that the British
government have forced on this war.
that they tried to bluff and buster, but,
sir, this statement is not borne out by
facts The English agent put UP with
abuse and insult that no other represen-