The white man wants their lands, and all must go excepting such percentage of them as he will need to do his work for him upon terms to be determined by himself.

Since history has removed the element of guesswork from this matter and made it certainty, the humanest way of diminishing the black population should be adopted, not the old cruel ways of the past.

Mr.Rhodes and his gang have been following the old ways .-- They are chartered to rob and slay, and they lawfully do it, but not in a compassionate and Christian spirit.
They rob the Mashonas and the Matabeles of a portion of their territories in the hallowed old style of "purchase!" for a song, and then they force a quarrel and take the rest by the strong hand.

They rob the natives of their cattle under the pretext that all the cattle in the country belonged to the king whom they have tricked and assassinated.

They issue "regulations" requiring the incensed and harassed natives to work for the white settlers, and neglect their own affairs to do it.