Let us allow that there was no invitation.

Neither did Fra Diavolo invite the travellers he despoiled; _ergo._, according to Dr.Kuyper, he had the right to despoil them.

The Uitlanders are travellers, at whose expense the government of Pretoria has the right to live, and to support the Boers.
Such is plainly the idea of Mr.Krueger and of the majority of the 29 members of the Volksraad, and we shall see that that idea underlies the whole of its political economy.
Mr.Krueger was, however, in error in supposing that he could practise this system indefinitely in these times of ours, and with respect to the citizens of a country which represents the modern conception of industrial civilization.
Professor Bryce, a strong opponent of the present policy of England, says in his _Impressions of South Africa_ (p.

470): "A country must after all take its character from the large majority of its inhabitants, especially when those who form that majority are the wealthiest, most educated, and most enterprising part of the population." Mr.Krueger has aimed at realizing this paradox: the oppression and plunder of the most enterprising, most educated, the richest and most numerous portion of the population by the poorest, most ignorant, most indolent of minorities..