WE gather from Mr. Spenser Wi kinson's extremely interesting and informing little book, British policy in South Africa, just published by Sampson Low, Marston, & Ca., that we are paying now for the ineptitude of former British Governments exactly as we shall have to pay. in the coming century for the ineptitude of Lord Salisbury's Governnient in regard to China. Mr. Wilkinson begins with what he calls a "preliminary survey," and he mentions that the Transvaal is a district about as large as France, inhabited by 700,000 Kaffirs. Into this district there have migrated within the last sixty years 245,000 white tien, of whom 65,000 are Boers, 100,000 British, and 80,000 Americans and Continental Europeans. "The Boers imagine that they have a proprietary right to the State; that they are the State. Thay have in their hands the Legislature and the Executive, aid they propose to keep both to themselves. So far as the Transvaal is isolated they have the power to do this, for they are armed and the Uitlanders are unarmed. The Uitlanders might overcome them by persuading the natives to join them in a revolt, but are prevented from doing so by the feeling that as against the blacks the white men must stand together." In. fact, the safety of the Boers depends entirely on the feeling of the Outlanders that' the Transvaal' must' be' treated' as a part of a larger whole which is South Africa, and that all the whites' in South Africa would suffer if some of the whites joined
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