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many of them, upon charity in Natal and the Cape
Colony. In proportion to the area affected, then. there
could not be a greater disturbance. The war has spelt
temporary ruin to many thousands of people. including
the most advanced and civilized portion of the popula-
tion of the Transvaal. There has also been some
destruction of capital which will have to be renewed
affer the war, but not representing any large sum in
comparison with the annual product of the industry.
This disturbance, perhaps, has not been an inevit-
able incident of the war. It was quite possible for the
Transvaal Government to permit the Uitlander to live
and work in peace, although war was going on. As a
matter of fact. however, contrary to their own interest,
the governing classes of the Transvaal have not per-
mitted the industry to go on, because they have expelled
the.only people by whom it could in fact be managed.
I n any case there would have been some disturbance
through the fear of the Uitlander, who distrusted the
Transvaal Government in time of peace, and was natur-
ally ten times more apprehensive when war approached,
but the Uitlander has not in fact been left to his own
fears. I{e has been forcibly deprived of the means of
living by the act of the Government of the Transvaal.
In other respects, in the Transvaal itself, and else-
where throughout South Africa, there has been no
great stoppage of industry. At Kimberley, where the
great diamond mining industry is carried on, even the
siege did not altogether stop the industry itself, while
the usual ~mployment throughout the region, that of
pastoral farming, is not one of a kind which war
seriously interrupts. T~e farms lose something by the
absence of the farmers themselves who have been
called away to the field to· fight, but not a great deal in
proportion. To these interruptions must be added the
interruption of coal mining in Natal and the Cape
Colony~ and the interruption to business generally in
those parts of Cape Colony, Natal, and the Orange
Free State, which have been the actual theatre of the