Here we have a minority governing the majority; what else is an oligarchy?
"Throughout the land there are juries"; yes, but juries made up of Boers who try Uitlanders, treat them as enemies, and find that the policeman Jones acted rightly in killing Edgar.

That way of constituting a jury is a certainty of injustice to the Uitlanders, and not a guarantee of justice.
President Krueger promised to do something for the municipal organisation of Johannesburg; this is how he keeps his promise.

Each division of that town elects two members, a Burgher and an Uitlander; according to the last census, the burghers living in Johannesburg, numbered 1,039; the Uitlanders 23,503; thus 1,039 burghers had as many representatives in the municipal Corporation as the 23,503 Uitlanders.

The Mayor, who was nominated by the Government, had the right of absolute veto.
In modern law there exists a principle introduced by England, which is the true basis of representative Government: "no representation, no taxation." It is the right of every citizen who contributes to the taxes to approve of them and to control the use of them.
In autocratic governments, he has no such right.

In oligarchic governments, the governing class imposes burdens upon those it governs.
This is the case in the Transvaal.
In an oligarchy, taxes are not levied with a view to the general good of the community, but for the benefit of the ruling class; and this is the political conception of the Boers.
Dr.Kuyper says, in speaking of the Uitlanders: "No one invited them here; they came of their own accord." Therefore they possess the right to be taxed, but nothing else.
Dr.Kuyper's assertion is not strictly correct; for he forgets the invitation addressed by Mr.Krueger, in London in 1884, to all who were willing to take their abilities and their capital to the Transvaal, in which he promised them rights of citizenship and assured them of his protection.
But the matter of invitation is of little account.