The evening times., 1898-11-12
BRITISH COLONIAL SUCCESS. /,

Prof. Jebb, in an excellent speech before
the church congress on the duty of the
Anglican church toward the people of our
immense dependencies offered note
worthy explanation of British success in
governing dark races, says the London
Spectator. We are, he confessed less
sympathetic than the French, or, as he
might have added, than the Slavs, but
experience has shown that the Anglo-Sax-
on qualities did very we'll for colonial ana
imperial purposes. The truth was that
the elementary functions of government,
especially that of protecting life and
property, We're for the most generally i'm
portant TO the governed. Most people
cared more about having reasonable Sc
curity against being robbed or murdered
than about meeting with a graceful ap-
probation of their finer gifts. The Eng
lishman had succeeded by dint of his dog
ged resolve to maintain law and order
and to see justice done wherever he un-
dertook to govern" We believe that the
Key to the gravest of all present political
problems lies in those words, the sub
stance of which we have been repeating
for the last thirty years. The English
man who steps as governor, commission
err resident or adviser, into an anarchical
province swarming with half-developed
brigandS, and in q case of Berar in few
weeks, reduces il to tranquil and con-
tented order, does not do II by virtue
either of intelligence or sympathy. He is
often rather a buliheaded man, and usu-
ally acknowledges that the inner thought
of his subjects is beyond him., but he
/ infiexiby seeks justice, he will not toler-
ate disorder, and he has a certain rough
dislike of legal cruelty.
The mass of mankind who have no
hope of rising far. seek these. things first
of all in their government, and, finding
them. they sink back into quiet -acquieS-
cence. They do not love the English
| that is vainglorious assumption-and
they are not loyal to the throne-that
is a conventional assumption-but they
have no such dislike would tempt
! them to insurection. and no such disloy-
! atty would urge them TO break up that
/ marvellous Pax Britannica, which rem
| ders millions of square miles of obscure
| territory. populated by haf-civilized or
savage races, as safe as a London street.
/ Your watch runs more risk in the Strand
! than in Dacca or Handy. They turn to
! their occupations. accept the new mag s.
! tracy. and are. if not content, at least
| acquiesceut: and the strength of rulers
! the value of their laws and the fullness
! of their treasures are all based not on
| an emotional love. but on tepid but
I continuous acquiescence. If We ruled in
! Crete tomorrow-which God forbd-there
would in six months be infinite agitation
! for union with Greece. but no necessity
! for more than the merest handful of Brit
! ish soldiers. Yet the new rulers would
probably neither understand nor ike the
! Cretans
| 1t is well tnat We and the world should
| understand this cardinal fact because on
| it rests as ON rock the British claim TO
| expansion over the dark places of the
/ world: and well. too, that We should re-
member with some humility that In es-
| tabilshing our claim we permit breaks in
| our righteous course