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them neither protection nor redress. During this reign of terror the country was flooded with 'Imperialist' lecturers, agents of the South African League or its English branch, the British South Africa Association, mine-owners from Johannesburg, missionaries from Cape Colony, who toured the country, professing to lecture on the history of South Africa, and to set before the audience in some Literary Institute, Chamber of Commerce, chapel, church, or political club, their personal knowledge of the facts in South Africa.

The condition of the British mind is best gauged by its discriminative treatment of Cape Colonists. A fair-minded England would have desired to give a free and equal hearing to the representatives of both parties in our colony. Instead of doing this, England gave free speech to one section and repressed it in the other. There is no more signal evidence of a damaged intelligence and a corrupted sense of justice than the brutal denial of a hearing to Mr. Cronwright Schriener and to the Colonial Delegates appointed by the People's Congress in the Colony. No more perilous condition can be imagined than that of a people, wielding the power of self-government and determining the issues of peace and war, which is so infatuated