The official salaries of 1899, estimated at £1,216,000, included a sum
of £326,640 for the police. We have seen what kind of police it is.

The legislature is composed of two Volksraads, each consisting of
twenty-nine members; or fifty-eight in all. Now the estimate of salaries
for the legislature is £43,960, or about £758 each, more than double the
allowances of the French senators and deputies.

It is somewhat imprudent of Dr. Kuyper to refer to the educational
expenditure. The expenditure amount allocated for the education of the
children of Uitlanders in 1896, was £650, or at the rate 1s. 10d. per
head, while the gross estimate for education in the budget for that year
amounted to £63,000, which works thus out at a cost of £8 6s. 1d. per
head for the Boer children. Dr. Mansveldt, Head of the Education
Department of the Transvaal, a Hollander, seems to have but one aim: to
enforce the use of the _taal_, the Boer patois--a language spoken by no
one else--the use of which keeps them in isolated ignorance. The English
language is banned.


5.--_New Taxes._

This revenue, employed almost exclusively for the benefit of the Boers,
did not suffice for the insatiable government in Pretoria. At a meeting
of the Chamber of Mines, on November 21st, 1898, Mr. Rouliot summarized
a statement by Mr. Krüger in the Raad, as follows:--

"But recently, Mr. Krüger had said he would give the mines the
chance of establishing themselves before a percentage should be
imposed upon their returns; and that no tax would be levied till