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the at, *Ui $, Local cuthoritico, - magistrates and police
did not always act effoctively to stop the riots, - which
again rcficcto political disagroements# Sonn of the
riots were Q1no either organined or coo ad at by
authority*
But the rioting was also an oxtroLo examp3o
of intense and almost hysterical imperialist feeling
which had been developing since the 1870'n In thin
respect they reflected extreme patrlotiom fanned by the
events of the war; excessive anti-Boor fooling; and
aggression bubbling over into actual violonco, -» the
violence of the war received at second hand seemed to
have stimulated a desire to emulate the troops{ the
armed forces attacked the Doers - the British at home the
pro-Doera" In the background appearing in speeches
and com °ents was an increasingly assertive Inperiolicu
in which the power and extension of the Empire wore
taken for granted and shrouded in lofty language. There
was no doubt in the minds of the majority of the population
by 1900 that not only had the Empire come to stay= but
that it wan emphatically a very desirable thine,