proposed to be applied, and he did not like the system of allocating reserves
for Natives. When once those reserves had been allocated, would it not result
in injury to agriculture and cattle breeding? The farmers would suffer
from lack of labour, and that deficiency would be a growing one.
Neither could he agree to the principle of expropriation of land
belonging to whites in order to increase the size of the native reserves.
He considered the Bill was a complicated one. The matter should be settled
by way of taxation, in the following way. All Natives who
were in the service of whites should be exempted from taxation,
and treated as well as possible, and other Natives should be encouraged
to take similar service. There were enormous reserves where the Natives
could go and live,** and if they refused to go there they should be required
to pay a stiff tax. Then they would go and work for white people.
The hon. member for Tembuland had offered many objections to the Bill.
They should make that hon. member king of Tembuland.
In a country of the blind a man with one eye would be king.

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* By a "solution of the Native problem", "Free" State farmers generally mean
the re-establishment of slavery.
** It will be observed that these and similar mythological disquisitions
subsequently formed General Botha's assurances to Mr. Harcourt.
See Chapter XVI. But some light is thrown on the subject
of these visionary Native Reserves by Mr. Fawcus' speech
based on official statistics (page 36 [above -- last Fawcus quote]).
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MR. P. DUNCAN (Fordsburg) said he hoped the Minister would not take
the view of the last speaker. Under the Bill it would be possible
for farmers to accumulate on their land as many Natives as they could get,