Lord Milner arrived in Cape Town on Tuesday. In reply
to the speech of welcome addressed to him by the Mayor, Lord Milner declared that the people of South Africa had the country's future in their- own hands. " Loyal people should
do all they could to establish a great free nation, one of a group of nations, free and independent, but associated in a permanent and indissoluble federation under the greatest and most venerable Empire of the world." That the Government and those who support their policy are working for a free South Africa in a free Empire is habitually ignored by the Pro-Boers, who talk as if our desire were to change the whole current of our Imperial policy and to enslave South Africa. It is most important that this delusion should be vigorously combated in season and out of season, and we are very glad to note that Lord Milner laid such strong emphasis on the point.
