1. A Krueger Trick.--2. The Bill passed by the Volksraad--3. Pretended Concessions.--4. The Joint Commission.--5. Bargaining.--6. The Conditions, and Withdrawal of Proposals.--7. The Franchise is Self-Government 87 CHAPTER XV. THE SUZERAINTY OF ENGLAND AND THE SOUTH AFRICAN REPUBLIC. 1. Who Raised the Question of Suzerainty?--2. The Suzerainty and the Conference of the Hague 95 CHAPTER XVI. THE ARBITRATION QUESTION. 1. How the Transvaal interprets Arbitration.--2. Mr. Chamberlain's Conditions 101 CHAPTER XVII. THE BOER ULTIMATUM. 1. Dr. Kuyper's Logic.--2. Despatches of 8th and 22nd September.--3. The Ultimatum 108 CHAPTER XVIII. DR. KUYPER'S FINAL METAPHOR. 1. Where are the Peace Lovers?--2. Moral Worth of the Boers.--3. A Lioness Out of Place.--4. Moral Unity by Means of Unity of Method 113 APPENDIX. _a._--ENGLAND, HOLLAND AND GERMANY 119 _b._--DR. KUYPER'S ADMISSION 1. Offer to Dr. Kuyper to Reproduce his Article.--2. Dilatory Reply of Dr. Kuyper.--3. Withdrawal of Dr. Kuyper.--4. Mr. Brunetiere's Refusal.--5. The Queen of Holland and Dr. Kuyper's Article 124 _c._--THE LAST PRO-BOER MANIFESTATION 130 _d._--SOUTH AFRICAN CRITICS 136 _e._--THE TRANSVAAL AND THE PEACE CONFERENCE HELD IN PARIS FROM SEPTEMBER 30TH TO OCTOBER 5TH, 1900 151 PREFACE. THE QUESTION. I have endeavoured in the following pages to separate the Transvaal question from the many side issues by which it is obscured. In the "Affaire Dreyfus" I constantly recurred to the main point--Dreyfus was condemned upon the "bordereau"; Dreyfus was not the author of the "bordereau," therefore he was not responsible for the documents named in the "bordereau." In this case, in like manner, there is but one question:--Has or has not the government of the South African Republic acted up to the convention of 1884, and is the English government bound to regard that convention as of no effect with regard to the Uitlanders who have established themselves in the Transvaal on the faith that England would insist upon its being respected? _Pro-Boer Argument._ Pro-Boers refuse to recognise this point, as did M. Cavaignac when, in his speech of July 7th, 1898, he abandoned the "bordereau" to substitute for it the Henry forgery. They keep talking of the Great Trek of 1836; of England's greed; of the gold mines; and, above all, of the Jameson raid. The Jameson raid is their pet grievance; it takes the place of all argument. The Uitlanders may well say that "Jameson has been Krueger's best friend."