Dr Jameson . .Dutch 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 o
Dr Jameson . .Dutch 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- J. Iliotu hi/] [Rek?, Johiuiiieslnirg Hon. ]. II. IIoFMKVR. [/unu/o-j,. 232. THE AFTERMATH. 227 habitant in South Africa. His position was fromthe first stronger than that occupied by Rhodes,because he understood better the value of organiza-tion, especially in industrial matters. Speaking ata banquet in his honour on the 2nd of February,1904, on the eve of the assembling of Parliament,he made clear the aim of his policy. In the courseof his speech he said : Mr. McClure alluded to the unmitigated abusewhich I personally have received. That we willforgive. I have no enmity against the other used whatever means they had to advocatetheir principles, and I give them credit for believingin their principles, and I claim for our side thesame absolute honesty. Both parties have desiredthe good and the prosperity of the Cape Colony,viewed from two different points of view. We, theProgressive party, view this limb of the BritishEmpire as a real, integral portion of the Empir
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