him, in the course of which he declared that the English would never,
never, make up their minds to go to war. That was the dangerous idea
then spread throughout European diplomacy, and which must have been
transmitted to Krüger by Dr. Leyds, and some of the representatives of
European Governments then in Pretoria. Thus Krüger thought he need not
trouble. Hence his attitude at Bloemfontein. It was not because England
was desirous of war that it broke out, it was because she bore the
reputation of being too pacific, and because she had given too many
proofs of forbearance to the Boers.




CHAPTER XIII.

THE FRANCHISE.[19]


1.--_Impossible Comparisons._

Dr. Kuyper favors us with a long dissertation upon the various laws of
naturalisation existing throughout the world. But he cannot compare a
country such as Belgium with 226 inhabitants per square kilomètre, or as
France with 72 per square kilomètre, with a country that has two
inhabitants to the square kilomètre. Had he been logical, he would have
said that the 9,712,000 square kilomètres of the United States should
always have been exclusively peopled by the 600,000 or 700,000 Sioux
Iroquois and Apaches who used to dispute them.

Dr. Kuyper will reply that they were Redskins and so do not count. Be it