His signatories affirmed that security of property and individuals was assured in the Transvaal.

Pangloss, himself, would not have gone so far.
4 .-- _Security of the Individual according to Boer ideas._ Krueger's petitioners further asserted that the petition to the Queen was "the work of capitalists and not of the public." As a matter of fact, incensed at the murder of Edgar--a working man--the men who were the first to sign that petition were working men.

The principal mining company of Johannesburg had shown an example of that prudence we see too often among capitalists, and had dismissed Mr.Wybergh, the President of the _South African League_, who was one of their employes.

The President of the Chamber of Mines, Mr.Rouliot, in his statement of January 26th, 1899, took pains to dissociate it from the campaign of agitation.

This display of weakness availed nothing.