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burgher should be treated as a rebel and shot would be productive of nothing but good.

It is not the cruelty or the palpable injustice of these measures that concern us in our present analysis, but the complacent and even exultant acceptance of them by the mob-mind of the Jingo public here at home. Rightly understood, these passages from the Standard and the Daily Telegraph are the most damning testimony to the degradation of British character that has yet been given.

Those who know the means adopted to inflame the Imperial sentiment in our colonies and dependencies will, however, not be surprised to learn that in definite brutality the Jingoism even of the Standard and the Telegraph is outdone. A recent issue of the Indian Planters' Gazette contains the following: –

Not only should the Boer be slain, but slain with the same ruthlessness that they slay a plague-infected rat. Exeter Hall may shriek, but blood there will be and plenty of it, and the more the better. The Boer resistance will further this plan, and enable us to find the excuse that Imperial Great Britain is fiercely anxious for – the excuse to blot the Boers out as a nation, to turn their land into a vast shambles, and remove their name from the muster-roll of South Africa.

It will be vehemently denied that such a

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