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THE TRANSVAAL BRIBE.

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THE TRANSVAAL BRIBE. AFTKR the debate on the Transvaal Loan on August 19th, it is no longer possible to conceal that the guarantee of a loan of five millions to the Transvaal Government is a bribe to get rid of the Chinese. Mr. Churchill, while denying the charge, admitted the fact. His observation," "We want these Chinese to go, and we mean them to go," is sufficient to justify the charge, even if it had stood alone. But the brilliant speeches of Mr. Lyttleton and Mr. Bonar Law drove it in to the hilt. Pledge-bound by platform hysterics, the Government tried to intimidate the Chinese by tell- ing them they were slaves. The Chinese would not believe it. Terrorism and intimidation hav- ing failed, the Government turned to cajolery. Still, the Chinese declined to believe that they were slaves; they were so enamoured of their "chains" that dangerous riots were threatened, when it was proposed to send back a detachment who had been landed contrary 'to the Jintfantion of the Government. All other resources having failed. the Government agreed to guarantee the Transvaal Loan. and thereupon the Transvaal Government decided that the Chinese must go. Could there be a clearer connection between cause and effect? The unwisdom of issuing a loan at all is apparent under a passing review of the conditions. The Finance Minister has presented a most gloomy annual statement, showing a. deficit on the past year. and one for next year. The State is suffering under a deep and increasing depression. Its three hun- dred thousand of white population are already re- sponsible for a public debt of fifty millions, and ,;p, now it is proposed to saddle them with an addi- tional five millions. This, too, in defiance of the Opposition, representing an electorate that pays 85 per cent. of the taxation of the country. Ought it rot to have been the duty of a prudent, honest, patriotic Government, Imperial Government, to have eheelod. rather than have encouraged. tbp desire of the Boor Ministers, to increase the bur- dens pressing on their country?

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