Were the Boers to lose by the ballot-box the victory which they had won by their rifles?
Was it fair to expect it?
These newcomers came for gold.
They got their gold.

Their companies paid a hundred per cent.

Was not that enough to satisfy them?
If they did not like the country why did they not leave it?
No one compelled them to stay there.

But if they stayed, let them be thankful that they were tolerated at all, and not presume to interfere with the laws of those by whose courtesy they were allowed to enter the country.
That is a fair statement of the Boer position, and at first sight an impartial man might say that there was a good deal to say for it; but a closer examination would show that, though it might be tenable in theory, it is unjust and impossible in practice.
In the present crowded state of the world a policy of Thibet may be carried out in some obscure corner, but it cannot be done in a great tract of country which lies right across the main line of industrial progress.

The position is too absolutely artificial.