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wilfully brought about by mining cpeculatorel stock
gamblers and othoraw with the greedy and nolfich
desire of appropriating this remarkable territory to
their own aggrundisoment. '"
(1)
Lincoln Trades
Council considered that "it would be a better policy
on the Government's part to look after the interests
of workers at home than to meddle with the laws of an
independent state. " There wore attacks on
Rhodes and the Chartered Company and references to
the Jameson Raid; Keighley Trades Council ironically
congratulated the Government on its "pMarationo for
a second Transvaal Raid. "
The Transvaal problem was related to the
intoreeto of finance capitalism represented by the
Rhodes clique, and provided these promises were
accepted, a coherent argument aCainct war could be
Aosemblod. But this meant that the part played by
the nininG capitalists wan exaggerated (pony of them
were fairly satisfied with tho status quo in the Transvaal)
and the part played by Milnor and the politicians at
(1) 2.0.1+17/2770 resolution cent by Drintol socialist
Society, 23rd September 1899.