The evening times., 1899-01-14

view. The government OF these lsianus
must be carried on by competent men; and
it is needless to say that the politician
from the backwoods, or the son OF dis
tinguished father. - the young man VINO
cannot make living in his own land ana
must be helped out of it, are not likely TO
be fitted for the government Of an alien
race. To a certain extent such mistakes
have been made by the English govern
ment, and wherever it has made them 1t
has paid for them most dearly. The strong
men who govern India are not penny poll
ticians, endeavoring to fill their pockets
They are men of backbone and discretion
and eXperience-sometimes men who are
thoroughly interested in the native races
from scientific or sociological point OF
view The type Of man needed for such
work is the man who likes the work and
the life-who goes to his foreign home
with a definite aim, not indissolubly con-
nected with cash.
Lord Cromer, who is virtually ruler in
Egypt has lately been overwhelmed by
applications for ''berths" in the Egyptian
civil service. These applications have been
for the most part refused; and the reason
is given in recent dispatch of his:
4 very small number of Englishmen are en-
ployed in high positions. Every effort is made
TO restrict the number of Europeans, whether of
English or of other nationaltieS, in the subordi-
nate ranks of the public service, which is more
especialy-and, as far as is possible, exclusively
reserved for natives of Egypt
1t should be clearly understood that the
in 10
Philippines is different from any other III
our national life. In this Oriental land we
have a fair field and a chance to begin on
the right basis. In solving the Indian
problem we came in contact with race
nomadic. savage, and untitled for civiliZa-
iion. In dealing with the negro in the
South, two hundred and fifty years of ira
dition had TO be considered, with all its
manifold effect on both races; ana the ap-
pointment of negroes TO political Office was
made unwise by the fact that the majority
of the population in most Southern States
is white. In the Philippines, we have
semi-civilized people, who have their own
laws, their own customs and their own re-
ligiCn: these conditions must TO certain
extent shape our policy. The Filipinos are
certainly as we'll fitted to fill minor posi-
tions as the natives of half the English
colonies, and there is no earthly reason
why they should not have these positions
BY this arrangement the American, who
does not know the country thoroughly,
viii have in his subordinate an interpreter
and guide. There is absolutely no other
! way To manage such dependencies. To un-
/ dcrtake to plant a government wholly
( American in any of these islands would be
as absurd as for an Englishman TO go into
/ The Canadian woods and undertake to
shoot big game there without an Indian
! guide or any knowledge of the country.
( Where Lord Cromers policy has been fol-
lowed the English government has been
! succgs ssful: where ii has not been followed
| there have been wars. The London Spec
tator recognizes this fact in the following
comment:
Lord Crorncr's principle has been. and is. a.
/ far as possible. 10 put no Englishman into
position which can lee a= well filled by native
/ and 40 native into 4 position which be
better q. e. more efTecjually) filed by Eng
li~husn. Tins means that al the many sUbor
dustc posts are filled 10y natives, and that the
! very few posts 1t the top-i. =, posts where re
sl,or-inility. moral courage, independence, anc
initiative are absolutely necessary-are given /,
picked Engli~hnen. The result is, Lore
Crompr has said, that he governs with Englisi
heads aud Egyptian hands. The principle Is tha
tie native Egyptian has right TO every post h
Is really tit to fill Contrast the French system
in Algicrs. and even in Tunis where, though
only a protcctoFate colony, there are said 10 h
i've thousand small French functonaries doing
work which natives could do just well. Lor,
C.omcr deserves high praise tOr his steadfast
ue~~ iu absolutely refusing 10 find illetS fo
Ergli>hmcn. Ii the empire is ever run on th
rrfrg irlc of billcts Tor unemployed lterati
aud ,o, iu thc interests OF the governed, we shal
iu,aliiliy Jose H. and deserve to lose it.
These remarks apply quite as well tc
America as 10 England.