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Title: South Africa and its future
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Argyll, John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Duke of, 1845-1914 Creswicke, Louis
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Publisher: London : T.C. & E.C. Jack
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flag. With the subtlety which always dis-tinguished the party, a change was made in this some years after-wards. The language of the Bond organ, De Patriot, is perfectly ex-plicit, and shows very clearly the spirit and intentions of the party.The English must be boycotted. There must be no English shops,signboards, advertisements, or bookkeepers. Manufacture of muni-tions of war must be started in the two Republics. At Heidelbergthere are already 4000 cartridges made daily, and a few skilfulAfricanders have begun to make shells too. That is right; so wemust become a nation. It must be considered a disgrace to speakEnglish, and war must be waged in the Church against that language. It is the Dutch Reformed Church. What has England to do withit? In family life no quarter was to be given. As we have already said, the junction of the Farmers* ProtectionSociety with the Bond exercised a moderating influence, but thespirit, intentions, and object of the party remained the same, although 48
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The Africander Party Mr. J. H. Hofmeyr attempted, in a manner as astute as it was danger-ous, to unite the Dutch and English people in South Africa in acommon antagonism to Great Britains power, influence, and presence.Even Mr. Merriman saw through this trick, as he declared in aspeech delivered at Grahamstown in 1885. It is now the cue of theBond to pretend to be loyal, and if it were not jDainful it would beridiculous to hear the editor of De Ztiid Afrikaan cheerino- theQueen, and to hear Du Toit praying for her while resolutions arepassed round to the branches in direct opposition to the honour ofEngland. . . . Each one of you will have to make up his mindwhether he is prepared to see the colony remain a part of theBritish Empire, which carries with it obligations as well as privileo;es,or whether he is prepared to obey the dictates of the Bond. Fromthe very first time, some years ago, when first the poison began tobe distilled in this country, I felt that it must come to this : Wa

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