We have already noticed the telegraphic summary of the Manifesto
of the Transvaal National Association. The full text now available shows that its adherents are thoroughly loyal to the Empire. We may quote the following passage :—
"It is our privilege to share in the heritage of the British Empire, its institutions and its traditions ; it is no loss our privilege and our duty to secure within the wide scope of these nstitutions conditions which shall be as congenial to Dutch as to English traditions. We have to make a nation—a white nation, yet neither English nor Dutch, but South African, fit to take its place beside the Canadian and Australian nations, and yielding true and loyal allegiance to our great Empire."
That is admirably put, and the best answer to those who attribute separatist aims to the new party is to be found in
the comment of the Rand _Daily Mail, an organ which, at any rate, cannot be accused of anti-capitalist sympathies. "The
Manifesto on the whole appears to approximate more closely to the outline of a policy which is in accordance with the general trend of popular opinion in the Transvaal than any other document of the kind hitherto issued."
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