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7. The West Highland Railway Guarantee Act; which enabled the Treasury to guarantee certain sums for opening up a considerable agricultural district in the Highlands.

8. The Market Gardeners' Compensation (Scotland) Act; which extended to Scotland the English Act already referred to on this subject.

9. The District Councils (Water Supply Facilities) Act; which gives facilities for obtaining a pure water supply in rural districts.

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The Congested Districts (Scotland) Act; which provides for the administration of sums available for the improvement of congested districts in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.

II. The Chaff-cutting Machines Act; which provides for the prevention of accidents by chaff-cutting machines.

12. The Foreign Prison-made Goods Act; which prevents the importation of prison-made goods, a matter of considerable importance to some rural districts.

13. The Locomotive Act; which amends the previous enactments on this subject.

14. The Workmen's Compensation Act (1900); which provides for compensation being given to agricultural labourers injured in the course of their employment.

15, The Agricultural Holdings Act; which amends and consolidates previous Acts on this subject, and which will be of enormous importance to tenant-farmers in England, Scotland, and Wales. The Radical Government would never deal with this vast subject, or, at any rate, they never did do so, which is the proper test of their sincerity; but the Unionist Government pledged themselves to do so, and they have carried out their promise in such a manner as to be thanked officially by the most representative farmers' organisation, namely, the Central Chamber of Agriculture, London.

16. The Small Dwellings Acquisition Act (introduced by Mr. Chamberlain); by which working men in rural or other districts can become the owners of their houses, the local authority finding as much as four-fifths of the purchase-money.

The Commons Act; which further improves the law relating to

17. commons.

All the foregoing measures were brought in either by official or private members of the Unionist Party.

AN APPEAL TO THE RURAL
POPULATION.

After reading the details we have now given concerning the actual work of the Unionist and Radical (or Home Rule) parties, it should not be difficult for any tenant farmer or agricultural labourer to decide for whom he will vote at the coming General Election.

Not until the Unionists placed two Allotments Acts and one Small Holdings Act on the Statute Book did the Radicals think it worth while to do anything in a similar direction, although it must be borne in mind that they had already consistently used both farmers and labourers as stepping stones to power on at least two occasions, as already explained. They professed-as they may possibly do at the coming election-all manner of affection for the tillers of the soil, but there matters ended, and will end again if they are permitted to return to power. The labourers

and farmers fortunately saw through this dodge at the last General Election, namely, in 1895, when they returned the Unionist Party to power with the enormous majority of 152, a proceeding which, in the interests of themselves and of their families, we ask them to again repeat.

Printed and Published by McCorquodale & Co. Ltd., "The Armoury," London, S.E.

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PREFACE.

The following Notes are intended especially for the use of Speakers dealing with the South African Question at Election and other Meetings. They therefore consist largely of citations from firstrate authorities. The purpose kept in view throughout by the Compiler has been the confutation on the platform of the current mis-statements and misrepresentations of British Friends of the Boers.

Part I.-EARLIER HISTORY.

1. The Afrikander Claim.-2. Boers and Natives.-3. The Broken Promise.-4. Violations of the Conventions: The Four great Breaches.-5. The Anti-British Conspiracy.

Part II. THE OUTLANDERS' AGITATION.

1. Brief Summary of the Twelve Grievances; Krugerism and Liberalism.-2. Not a Capitalists' Agitation.3. Purpose of Kruger's Policy.-4. Sir Alfred Milner's Despatch.-5. Afrikander Censure of Kruger and his Policy.-6. Radical Encouragement of Kruger.

Part III. COULD THE WAR HAVE BEEN
PREVENTED?

Part IV. THE NEGOTIATIONS, AND WHY
THEY FAILED.

Summary of the Negotiations.-Note on the Question of
Suzerainty.

Part V. THE SETTLEMENT AFTER THE WAR.

1. Proposals of the Government.-2. Some Reasons for Annexation. Mr. Rose Innes on the Settlement.3. No Compromise.

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