Rhodes is really the person who is responsible for it.

It is also whispered that the English Government looks favorably upon his
plans, and that the Raid was only a part of a deep-laid scheme to
overthrow the Boer Government, and seize the Transvaal for England.

The Boers evidently believe this side of the story, for at the opening of
their Parliament the other day, Oom Paul, the valiant old President,
stated that it was the object of the enemy to destroy the Republic, but
that the Boers must rely upon the help of God. He closed his speech with
the solemn words:

"The Lord will not forsake His people!"

Mr. Cecil Rhodes has been asked by the Committee of Inquiry to explain the
trouble in South Africa, and he has done so at great length.

His explanation is, however, a trifle funny to fair-minded persons who
believe that the old maxim, "What is mine is mine, and what is thine is
thine," should be strictly obeyed.

Mr. Rhodes has made a long complaint against the Boers for not allowing
strangers and foreigners to help them govern their own country. He has
pictured the woes of the Uitlanders because they are not allowed to
govern, and because their children are not taught English in the schools,
and moreover, because they are made to pay heavy taxes for the gold they
mine and carry away. They have still another grievance. Any favor that the
Boers show at all is shown to Germans, and not to Englishmen. The Boers
will not allow any of the products of Cape Colony within their borders,
but prefer to do their trading with Germany. A dreadful offence truly,