The number of burghers aged between sixteen and sixty, entitled to vote, is 29,447; that of Uitlanders, between the same ages, 81,000.
These 30,000 Boers who represent the electoral portion of the community, do not pay one-tenth of the revenue of the state.

They represent, however, a budget of over four millions of pounds; or, L133 per head.

If our 10,800,000 electors in France had a proportionate budget at their disposal, it would amount annually to L1,436,400,000; or considerably more than our whole National Debt.
The burghers are thus fund-holders in receipt, per head, of a yearly income of L133 from the Uitlanders.

Never has there been an oligarchy so favoured.

It is true that all do not profit in the same proportion.