• Mr. Lyttelton, who followed Sir Henry Campbell- Bannerman, put
the case for the Government as well as it could be put. " Are you," he asked, " going to veto this scheme and declare that nothing shall be done ? That is one alternative. Are you going to permit Asiatics to come, and, against the wish of the Transvaal, to become a permanent element in the country ? That is the second alternative. The third alternative is,—Ara-you going to allow them to be introduced subject to some restrictions and conditions ? That is the alternative which has been adopted by the Transvaal and sanctioned by his Majesty's Government. It is the only one, in our opinion, by which the transition period can be bridged over,—the transition period before the natives of South Africa have increased sufficiently to furnish the additional unskilled labour which is required." We may note injegard to this' statement that Mr. Lyttelton abandons all hope of making the Transvaal a white working man's country.
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