Boer Politics

numerates with a sort of amazed frankness the r

been called scandalous that the Chief Justice of the High Court should have been deposed. But, in 1839, President Johnson, of th

1869 not 1839; and truly Dr. Kuyper has lighted upon a good example in his selection

models. "All very well, but what of that little slip of yours." ... Dr. Kuyper might as reasonably invoke la loi de dessaisissement voted by the French Chamb

garchy. And yet every citizen has his vot

may have created a democracy among themselves; with r

ise to Uitlanders is that they numbered 70,000, while the Burghers were only 30

t them as enemies, and find that the policeman Jones acted rightly in killing Edgar. That way of

members, a Burgher and an Uitlander; according to the last census, the burghers living in Johannesburg, numbered 1,039; the Uitlanders 23,503; thus 1,039 burghers

f representative Government: "no representation, no taxation." It is the right of every

archic governments, the governing class imposes burdens

neral good of the community, but for the benefit of the rul

, in speaking o

m here; they came o

s the right to be tax

rüger, in London in 1884, to all who were willing to take their abilities and their capital to t

olo invite the travellers he despoiled; ergo., according to Dr. Kuyper, he had the right to despoil them. The Uitl

y of the 29 members of the Volksraad, and we shall see th

stem indefinitely in these times of ours, and with respect to the citizens of

he present policy of England, says in h

its inhabitants, especially when those who form that majority are the

the most enterprising, most educated, the richest and most numerous portion