LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
THE BOER WAR.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.1 SIR,—Many of those who sympathise with the Boers have sought, in their speeches and their writings, to draw a parailri between the war in North America, which ended in the loss of our American Colonies, and the present war in South Africa.
The analogy is as unsound as it can be. In the war in America we were endeavouring to enforce taxation without representation. In the present war our object is to secure that the majority of the people in the South African Republic shall not be taxed without being duly represented. Yet such are the effects of party spirit, that we now have before us the amusing spectacle of a number of persons, who wish above all things to be Liberals, sympathising with a tyrannical oligarchy in its endeavour to preserve the power of taxing the majority of the inhabitants of a country without their oonsent.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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