"Has an inferior civilisation the right to impose itself upon a superior civilisation, and to propagate itself by means of war ?" Pro-Boers delight to exhibit in the shop windows a picture representing three Transvaal soldiers; a youth of sixteen, an old man of sixty-five, and a man in the prime of life.

What does it prove?
That every Boer is a soldier.

They have no other calling; to drive ox-teams; ride; shoot; keep a sharp eye on the Kaffirs in charge of their cattle; use the sjambok freely "in Boer fashion," to make them work; these are their occupations.

Their civilisation is one of the most characteristic types of a military civilisation.
It is a curious thing, that so many Europeans among the lovers of peace, should actually be the fiercest enemies of England, a country which represents industrial civilisation in so high a degree, that she stands alone, in all Europe, in refusing to adopt compulsory military service.
Such lovers of peace range themselves on the side of professional fighters against peaceable citizens.

They are for the Boer spoliator against the despoiled Uitlanders.