THE JOHANNESB17RGERS.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 SITt,—I happened to be at Port Elizabeth at the time of Dr. Jameson's "ride," and had some opportunities of observing Johannesburg matters from a rather close point of view. Now, Johannesburg is again to the fore, and I am watching matters from a greater distance. But the question I ask myself is the same from both posts of observation, viz., "Why do not the Johannesburg people help themselves ? " Last time it was the impetuous and chivalric, if misguided, Dr. Jameson, who ran amuck to make gold-finding more easy. Now it is the British nation who are being hurried on to war—for the same object. If the Boer Government is such that a free-born Briton cannot endure it any longer, if the fifty millions' worth of machinery sunk in the Witwatersrand reefs are worth fighting for, why do not the Johannesburg people resist the one and fight for the other, instead of con- tinually crying to some one else for help P-1 am, Sir, Ste.,
Ric. 0. A.
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