our 10,800,000 electors in France had a proportionate budget at their
disposal, it would amount annually to £1,436,400,000; or considerably
more than our whole National Debt.

The burghers are thus fund-holders in receipt, per head, of a yearly
income of £133 from the Uitlanders. Never has there been an oligarchy so
favoured. It is true that all do not profit in the same proportion. "The
Transvaal Republic" says a Dutchman, Mr. C. Hutten, "is administered in
the interests of a clique of some three dozen families."[15]

[Footnote 15: _The Doom of the Boer Oligarchies_. (_North American
Review_, March, 1900.)]


3.--_Salaries of Boer Officials._

The salaries of the Transvaal officials amounted, in 1886, to £51,831;
in 1898, to £1,080,382; and in 1899, they were estimated at £1,216,394.
Salaries amounting to £1,216,394 for 30,000 electors! Such are the
figures of the Transvaal Budget.

Here we find undoubtedly a great superiority over other countries; and
the officials in receipt of such salaries would look down with
profoundest contempt on the much more modest pay of their European
colleagues if they knew anything about them. Each elector represents
more than £40 of official salaries. At the same rate the pay of the
French Government officials would amount annually to about four hundred
and thirty-two millions pounds sterling (£432,000,000)! This is not all.
In 1897, a member of the Volksraad asked what had become of some
£2,400,000 which had been paid over to Transvaal officials, in the form