SOUTH AFRICAN MILLIONAIRES AND THEIR MONEY.
Apropos of the will of the late Mr. Woolf Joel, a paper in East London (Cape Colony) has some interesting remarks on the subject of South African millionaires generally, which are by no means flattering to these gentlemen. " Can we wonder," it asks, " that the country is poor, that our public institutions ana charities have to remain a constant drain on the public purse, when men of this stamp make their millions and leave not a stiver to the country which enriched them? " Some drastic remedy for this state of matters is hinted at. There should be, in our contemporary's opinion, a doctrine of ransom which would tap tho wealth of these people. " With one or two notable exceptions," it is added, " the contributions of South African millionaires to good works consist of a few hundred pounds, ostentatiously given and receive ' Avith almost a grovelling thankfulness bj the recipients." It Avould probably pay South Africa to import Sir William Harcourt for a feAV years.
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Evening Post, Volume LVII, Issue 23, 28 January 1899, Page 10 (Supplement)
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