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settlement. Our educated Jingoes have commonly taken the trouble to read some books and articles attesting the justice and necessity of war and annexation. But who are the gentlemen who write these books and articles, and who impose their 'history' and their opinions upon the British people? They are, as we have already pointed out, directors, engineers, and lawyers of Messrs. Wernher, Beit, the Consolidated Gold Fields and other gold-mining companies of the Rand, editors of newspapers owned by Mr. Rhodes and his business associates, such as Messrs. Garrett and Monypenny, professional or business men who have been political agitators and Reform prisoners at Johannesburg, such as Mr. Hosken and Dr. Hillier, with a handful of excited clergymen and philanthropists, such as Mr. Theo. Schriener and the Rev. A. Hofmeyr, whose political judgment and influence is utterly insignificant in their own country. The British public receives these men who, through their league, their Outlander Council, and their mendacious press, had engineered the war, as its most reliable advisers regarding the necessity of war and the mode of settlement.

These men deserved a hearing, but so did the leaders of the Dutch Africanders in our