Dr Jameson . teachers in the schools^ and the manipula-tion of education in Dutch interests—the officialrecognition of the Taal, which is a dialect—high protective duties on imported meat, eventhough these involved, owing to the scarcity ofcattle, the killing of breeding stock—while brandyand wine were to be freed from excise and themineral resources of the country to be directly andheavily taxed. Such proposals were solely in the interests bothof Dutch supremacy and of the Dutch farmersand wine growers, and did not reveal any regardfor the general welfare of the community. As amatter
Dr Jameson . teachers in the schools^ and the manipula-tion of education in Dutch interests—the officialrecognition of the Taal, which is a dialect—high protective duties on imported meat, eventhough these involved, owing to the scarcity ofcattle, the killing of breeding stock—while brandyand wine were to be freed from excise and themineral resources of the country to be directly andheavily taxed. Such proposals were solely in the interests bothof Dutch supremacy and of the Dutch farmersand wine growers, and did not reveal any regardfor the general welfare of the community. As amatter of fact, for the first three years of Jame-sons administration the Opposition had no con-structive programme, and their policy was moreto harass than to oust the Progressives. This wasdue partly to the financial stress within CapeColony, and partly because the Transvaal andOrange River Colonies had not been grantedresponsible Government. As a Bondman said tothe writer : Why should we trouble when Jame-. riwto h!i] [RekS, Johanneslmrf IIOX. ]. H. IIOFMEVR. {Fariii<;/<. 232. THE AFTERMATH. 233 son is doing more for the Dutch farmers than aBond Ministry would dare to do. Even in igo8,after the force of circumstances had been toostrong and the Bond had formed a Ministry underthe new label of the South African party, is reported to have said : I hope theSouth African party will be in power, but I fearthey will regret it when they get there, a state-ment probably endorsed by Mr. Merriman, who hasto face the most difficult financial situation thatever confronted a Cape Minister. Although socially holding himself aloof fromJameson, Mr. Hofmeyr was too genuine a loverof the Cape and South Africa not to approve of hisnon-racial enlightened policy for developing theColonys agricultural resources. Foreseeing thatthe weight of Dutch population and organizationwas automatically bringing to pass that Afrikanderdominion under the Empire for which he had sopersistently l
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