Pamphlet entitled 'The Transvaal Crisis' by Frederic Harrison (1873-1928), journalist and journal editor, reprinted from the Positivist Review, in which Harrison denounces the claim that the grievances of the Outlanders [Uitlanders] constitute a casus belli, and that such a claim would only be made against a small power Britain had previously sought to annex. He discards the idea that the paramountcy of Britain in South Africa allows it to act against the Transvaal, and condemns the cowardice of the Liberal Party, charging them with betraying their duties as an opposition.
Commenting on the excitement of the 'Jingo boom' in the country, he then targets [William] Harcourt, politician, and [John] Morley, politician and writer, asking what were they doing to oppose the war? Harrison ends by calling on the 'Afrikanders' of Cape Colony, holding lawful ministry and a parliamentary majority, to make war impossible.