Gladstone in the last session of parliament, has spent more than twelve millions sterling on frontier wars in South Africa during the eighty years that we have been unfortunate enough to have that territory on our hands.
Morley highlights the significant financial burden of military expenditures in South Africa over the years.
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But Turgot was one of those severe and scrupulous souls, to whom a wicked promise does not cease to be degrading by becoming hypocritical.
Could ministers justify abandonment, without far stronger evidence than they then possessed that they could not govern the Transvaal peaceably?
I think they will commit a great error if they take this course.
It would be a happy day for the Peace Society that should give the colonies a veto on imperial war.
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