[29] Olive Schreiner, Words in Season, page 62.
[30] Transvaal Green Book No. 1 of 1896.
[31] Transvaal Green Book No. 1 of 1896.
[32] Transvaal Green Book No. 1 of 1896.
CAPITALISTIC JINGOISM.
SECOND PERIOD.
National sentiment in South Africa kindled by the Jameson Raid.
The foregoing sketch has shown how deeply our people felt and resented the wrong that was done to them. It was to be expected that such a treacherous attack on the Republics, emanating from their own leader, would awaken the Africanders even in the remotest districts, and would bring fresh energy into the arena of politics. To give an instance of the measure of the feeling which had been quickened by the raid, a short extract is given below from an article published in the organ of the Africander party, Our Land, a few months after the Raid, an article which undoubtedly expressed the feeling of Africanders:—
"Has not Providence over-ruled and guided the painful course of events in South Africa since the beginning of this year (1896)? Who can doubt it?