It is very difficult for people in England to realise the conditions under which reform agitation is carried on in the Transvaal. The Johannesburg people are regarded, all the world over, as practically constituting the whole of the Uitlander population. When one states that in Pretorin there are upwards of 30,000 Uitlanders, the statement is invariably received with amazement, and even with incredulity, but it is nevertheless a fact. The recent elections have shown that, in the Pretorin district, about 2,500 qualified electors exercised their rights, and it is said that 1,000 more failed to vote. The Field Cornet's books show that there are 18,000 adult white males in Pretoria town and suburbs. One is compelled to ask, Why, then, do we never hear of the Pretoria'Uitlanders? The answer in one word is "Terrorism." The Johannesburg. reformers have carried the whole burden of agitation in spite of persistent and determined efforts to terrorise them, The arrest of Messrs. Dodd and Webb and their prosecution for protesting against the murder of Edgar, their release on bail
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