and the strongest power in our land. Since that time, for the last
ninety years, Englishmen have slowly been added to the population,
but the men of Dutch descent still form the majority of white South
Africans throughout the Cape Colony, Free State, and Transvaal,
outnumbering at the present day, even with the accession of the
foreigners (Uitlanders mean foreigners in Dutch) to the goldfields of
the Transvaal, those of English descent, as probably about two to one.
So we of England became step-mother to this South African people. We
English are a virile race. There is perhaps no one with a drop of
English blood in his veins who does not feel pride in that knowledge.
We are a brave and, for ourselves, a freedom-loving race; the best
of us have nobler qualities yet--we love justice; we admire courage
and the love of freedom in others as well as ourselves; and we find it
difficult to put our foot on the weak, it refuses to go down. At times,
whether as individuals or as a nation, we are capable of the