that they choose their own markets!

The Commission has heard Mr. Rhodes with great seriousness and a good deal
of sympathy.

So far, strange to say, it does not seem to have occurred to any member of
the august assembly which is making the inquiry, that the Uitlanders are
mere squatters in the Transvaal, and that if they don't like the ways of
the country they are visiting, there is nothing to prevent them from
packing up their traps, and going back whence they came.

Mr. Cecil Rhodes has not attempted to hide the fact that he did his best
to stir up the uneasy feeling in Johannesburg that led to the Jameson
Raid.

He admits that he sent Dr. Jameson to the borders of the Transvaal with
orders to hold himself in readiness for an emergency.

He does not allow that he is responsible for the actual raid itself,
because Dr. Jameson acted without orders when making it.

He does not deny, however, that he hoped to overthrow the Boer Government,
and President Krüger.

One of the members of the committee asked him if he meant to make himself
President in the place of Oom Paul, but he denied that he had any such
idea.

He gave, as a final reason why the cause of the Uitlanders was a just
cause, that "no body of Englishmen will ever remain in any place for any