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pre-1903 conditions, and allow cubicles to the full extent of the floor area, or else some change must be introduced.
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and it thus happens that, with the best | than secret agitation. The real difficulty is intentions, we have from time to time an that the people of India, just as is the unpleasant awakening and find that our So far as the existing tenements are advanced principles have not ben pro
case in China, and indeed to Solte concerned, it is practicably impossible to ductive of the effects which ought to have
extent everywhere, understand matiers effect any great improvement.
when put to them in their own To pull been brought about. In India the Govern- down
and the upper storeys of intermediate ment has for years past dealt with the facts when they are enforced from a different cannot understand the plainest houses in order to afford the necessary space people upon the broadest and most liberal point of view. The true policy of the to the adjoining houses and permit of principles. They have had as much free Goverument should be to encourage the insertion cf lateral windows is doin As it is possible to give
very heroic measure but, as has al-education upon Western lines has been not
them; | thorough mastery of native languages, ready been pointed out, financial consider only permitted but assisted and encouraged officials and others, and thus have the customs and ideas, on the part of the ations are against the success of the pro- to the utmost; justice has been impartially means of placing the truth position. The eight million dollars that it administered to all classes; taxation has native population with something ap- before the is estimated to cost would be well speut if been moderate and equitable; and, last butproaching the same force as that with which there were any guarantee that it would have | by no means least, little or no restraint has the agitators can put forward false and the results hoped for it, because no question been placed upon the freedom of the Press. inflaminatory statements, of finance should outweigh any consideration | If the people would not be contented with for public health, but as such a guarantee Government upon these lines, it may he is not forthcoming the risk is 100 great to well asked what will content them. be lightly undertaken. Far better ensure yet we find that discontent of a serious the effectiveness of the cleansing regula. I character has arisen, and is likely to spread. tions and restore the legal cubicles as they, This is certainly by no means encouraging
(Daily Press, 3rd July.) existed before the 1903 Ordinance.
Mankind finds its chief trouble, politically Cer and it is not surprising that speculation speaking, in squaring the differences that tainly it is wiser and less dangerous! has been rife as to what is the cause of this exist between its ethics and expediency, its to bealth to have the old wooden continued disaffection. Some will informed ideals and daily existence, its professions partitions than the curtains and sacks publicists are inclined to put it down to an which take their place, and which coustituteinher ut antagonism between the Eastern yesterday to this aspect of the situation in and its practice. Allusion was made the illegal cubicle. No one will care to aud Western mind; and to some extent this India, but the point could not be elaborated admit that the present system of housing is true; but it is by no is ideal, but neither, we think, will any one
means the only without too great a digression from what cause of the difficulty, Fastera people was then the main theme. seriously advocate such a wholesale remedial look down upon Europeans very much in any means the only part of the world where India is not by measure as that suggested by the Hon. Dr. the same way AS HO KAI. No, the remedy will have to be a and incisive intellect despise those of slower At our own doors, practically, we have the all people of quick (auomalies and humbug are to be traced. gradual one. As buildings become dila- but often much more solid understan·ling-- | Philippines, where'n the Americans are pidated and insanitary areas are discovered, and while we openly smile at their peculiari- bing torn there will be resumptions which will give ties, they secretly laugh at our inconsistencies to the highfalutin sentiments of their asunder between their devotion opportunity for an improved type of house. which they perceive with a clearuess that Constitution and their obligatory recogni
Plans for a new type have already beca would astonish us, if they gave utterance to submitted to the Legislative Council but their real thoughts.
tion of practical issues. Theuce we are led Once in a way this is to the Pacific slope, where Japanese and Thursday's discussion did not make this done, and we wake up to the fact that they Chinese men are not included in the clear. These certainly offer an improvement have bettered the instruction" with men create free and equal" maxim, and "all on the existing style. The centre of each respect to some of our most cherished prin- further inland we find the negro absolutely block will contain only a house or shop ciples in a manner which is at least a little debarred from that noble category. Nay, rising to the first floor, leaving an open embarrassing. It is something of this kind travelling still further to the great Eastern space above, which will give requisite that has taken place in India. We have external air to the floors of the adjacent thought that we could not do better than | between plutocrazy and democracy in these ceutres of civil zation, we find a wide gulf houses and permit of the insertion of lateral encourage a large number of Indian communities of windows, so that instead of three cubicles in students to study among other things our Crossing the Atlantic to Great Britain, we
free and equal the ordinary type there will be five-windowed superior principles of Government, and the find swilar sharp divisions between peers rooms a trifle smaller than the cubicle, uo result is that they have come to ask why and people, though the high sounding doubt, in the new type. Thus ten families these libral principles should not ca1 be accommodated where ine are carried to their legitimate conclusion, and only in the fillacy that there is not one law he professions are less insisted upon, and it is boused at present, and while this will the people of Tudia he allowed to govern for the rich and one for the poor that we have very little effect on overcrowding themselves their own way.
To this ques- itself, it ought to improve the sanitation of tion in the abstract it is not easy
open humbug. Our colony of the locality. That, in itself, is uo small
to give Australia with its "white Australia" policy a reply; and the answer to it on the achievement, and as a definite proposal, basis of simple fact, is not one that is likely of the pious fraud, though we doubt not m kes a determined id for the suppression showing the possibility of some improve to be accepted. The truth is that certain that the chu ches there use gilded termin. ment, the suggestion of the DIRECTOR OF people have the power of Governinent, and ol gy akin to PUBLIC WORKs deserves sympathetic con- also of self Government; and others not-
the early phrases of the. sideration.
American constitution framers. withstanding that they may have equally we reprint from an American contemporary Elsewhere good or possibly better intellectual faculties an article in listing that our cousins are have not from one cause or other the beginning to feel the irksom ness of having power of governing. This we know to the pius protest :tions thrown in their (Daily Press, 2nd July).
be the state of inatters in India; but it is The unrest which has arisen in India bas hardly to be supposed that the fac
feth. Justead of adopting the defiant will | attitud · drawn public attention at home to the be readily recognised by the Indian peopl-
of the defected revaricator,- relations existing between European and generally and it is not surprising that they gong to do about it?"—they resort to the Very well, then. 1fied. Wat are you -Eastern races and the difficulty which are easily misled by the "educated native", methods of the biblolater, and strive to constantly crops up, of arriving at any whose one id a of the value of his education show that the awkward passages do not satisfactory mutual understanding. People is to make use of it for his own aggrandise- mean in China are as familiar with this questionment.
what they Be It is not unnatural that under the gously they do it, too, gettin; right to mean. Very as those in India; but it is to be feared that circumstances that have arisen the idea has they have arrived at no more definite con- teen mooted that some restraint should be
the minds of the men of clusions on the subject, than, to judge from i put upon the liberty of the Press, by means lawyers
WASHINGTON'S day, and discoverin, like į information from the best sources, have of which the above named views have been original intention.
with a typical ordin Lee, the been attained to in India. There is a widely disseminated;
What they really but it is justly me aut," we are t∙ld, saving belief among Europeans and more observed by the Spectator that
"was that the people India is the of the colonies were as good as the people especially so anong Englishmen that what last country where it is safe to sit on the has proved efficacious in the West must be safety valve"--and, whatever might have Indians as men, nor negro slaves.
England." They did not count Red equally so in the East, and this conviction | been the case years ago, it is certainly now
"As a is adhered to with commendable faith, in too late to apply any such remely. It is it was true and se'f-evident, but as they matter of fact, the s'atement as they meant the face of undeniable facts that would by far better that, except in extrenie cases, stated it utterly erroneous and inc pable of themselves lead to a precisely opposite which the law can reach in India as well as conclusion.
verification." The matter unfortunately is elsewhere, open discussion sbould be is clarity. not one of abstract belief, but of hard facts, allowed, as certainly it will do less harm and equal
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