1. The ideal of the Boers.--2. The English in South Africa.--3. "The Crime."--4. British Sphere of Influence in 1838.--5. England, the Transvaal and the Orange Free State 9 CHAPTER III. THE ANNEXATION OF THE TRANSVAAL AND THE CONVENTIONS OF 1881 AND 1884. 1. The "Gold Mines" Argument.--2. Boer Anarchy.--3. The Boers saved by the English.--4.--The Annexation of the Transvaal, and the Conventions of 1881 and 1884.--5. The Convention of 1881 inapplicable.--6. Violation by the Boers 17 CHAPTER IV. ARTICLES OF THE CONVENTION OF 1884. 1. Krueger's point of view.--2. England's Obligations.--3. Equality of Rights among the Whites according to Mr. Krueger in 1881.--4. Preamble of the Convention of 1881.--5. Articles, 4, 7, and 14 of the Convention of 1884 24 CHAPTER V. LAW AND JUSTICE IN THE TRANSVAAL. 1. Contempt of Justice.--2. Confusion of Powers 31 CHAPTER VI. POLICE, JUSTICE AND LAW, ACCORDING TO BOER METHODS. 1. Legal and Judicial System of the Transvaal.--2. The Police (the Edgar Case).--3. An ingenious Collusion.--4. The Lombaard Case 36 CHAPTER VII. "SECURITY OF INDIVIDUALS" ACCORDING TO BOER IDEAS. 1. The Amphitheatre Case.--2. Valuation of Bail.--3. The Uitlanders' Petition.--4. Security of the Individual according to Boer Ideas.--5. The Murder of Mrs. Appelbe 42 CHAPTER VIII. Boer Oligarchy 48 CHAPTER IX. THE GOLD MINES. 1. "That Gold is mine!"--2. The Proportion of Gold per Ton.--3. Cost of Production.--4. A Gold Mine is an Industrial Exploitation.--5. Distribution of the Gold Production.--6. Cost of Production, and the Transvaal.--What the "Vultures" brought 52 CHAPTER X. FINANCIAL POLICY OF THE BOERS. 1. Receipts of the Boer Exchequer.--2. Budget Assessment of the Burghers.--3. Salaries of Boer Officials.--4. The Debit side of the Boer Budget.--5. New Taxes.--6. Attempt to raise a Loan.--7. Fleecing the Uitlander 59 CHAPTER XI. MONOPOLIES IN THE TRANSVAAL AND THE NETHERLANDS RAILWAY COMPANY. 1. Article XIV. and the Monopolies.--2. The Dynamite Monopoly.--3. Railways.--4. The Drift Question.--5. Methods of Exaction 66 CHAPTER XII. CAPITALIST INTRIGUES AND THE WAR. 1. A war of Capitalists.--2. A Local Board.--3. A deliberating Council.--4. Timidity of the Chamber of Mines.--5. The Petition and the Despatch of May 10th 73 CHAPTER XIII. THE FRANCHISE. 1. Impossible Comparisons.--2. Policy of Re-action.--3. The Bloemfontein Conference 80 CHAPTER XIV. THE FRANCHISE AFTER THE CONFERENCE OF BLOEMFONTEIN.