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Waikato Argus, Volume IV, Issue 306, 25 June 1898, Page 2 (Supplement)

All the local bodies iu the Waipa, Waikato, Piako and Raglan Counties advertise in The Waikato Argus. This in itself, proves that the Auous is the best advertising medium. During the last eighteen months the position of the Uitlauder in tho Transvaal has become steadily worse. Not o week passes without leaving him a little poorer, a little moro hopeless, a little more unhappy. " And yet, this being so," says the Englishman in London, the Frenchman in Paris, the German in Berlin, the American in New Vork aud San Francisco, "you Uitlaudcts do nothing, even say nothing. You call no public meetings, you make no united protests, you lay inert like brute beasts !" The reproach, although natural, is not just. Before the disastrous incursion of Dr. Jameson the Uitlanders in Johannesburg had petitioned till they were sick, argued until they were hoarse, entreated until self-respect commanded silence, agitated and agitated until thoy, being unarmed, defenceless and discouraged, were finally prevented by law from even calling or attending a public meeting. So the silence of the Uitlander commenced. Bound and helpless, what can he do but writhe ? Since the collapse of the reform movement, the Uitlanders have been like the gasping fish landed high aud dry on hot saiul.— Johannesburg Star.