they had a chance they would certainly give their fellow countrymen the best government and the highest degree of happiness within their power.  They call themselves “the people.”  But in no sense are they representatives of the great masses of the inhabitants.  They have no influence with them and really care nothing about them.  If the English were to withdraw from India to-day there would be perpetual revolution.  If the Americans were to withdraw from Manila the result would be the same.

It should be said, however, that, with all their humbug about benevolence, the British have never had the presumption to assert that their occupation of India is exclusively for the benefit of the natives.  They are candid enough to admit that their purpose is not entirely unselfish, and that, while they are promoting civilization and uplifting a race, they expect that race to consume a large quantity of British merchandise and pay good prices for it.  The sooner such an understanding is reached in the Philippines the better.  We are no more unselfish than the British, and to keep up the pretext of pure benevolence while we are in the Philippines for trade and profit also, is folly and fraud.  It is neither fair nor just to the Filipinos nor to the people of the United States.  At the same time the British authorities in India have given the natives a fair share of the offices and have elevated them to positions of honor, influence and responsibility.  But they have discovered, as our people must also discover in the Philippines, that a civil service examination does not disclose all the qualities needed by rulers of men.  The Hindu is very similar in character, disposition and talent to the Filipino; he has quick perceptions, is keen-witted, cunning and apt at imitations.  He learns with remarkable ease and adapts himself to new conditions with great facility, but no amount of those qualities can make up for the manly courage, the sterling honesty, the unflinching determination and tireless energy of the British character.  The same is true in the Philippine Islands.

At the last census only 864 Englishmen held active civil positions under the imperial government and 3,752 natives.  The number of natives employed in the public service has been constantly increasing since 1879, while the number of Englishmen has been gradually growing less.  No person other than a native of India can be appointed to certain positions under the government.  Native officers manage almost all of the multifarious interests connected with the revenues, the lands, the civil courts and local administration.  The duties of the civil courts throughout India, excepting the Court of Appeals, are almost entirely performed by native judges, who exercise jurisdiction in all cases affecting Europeans as well as natives, and the salaries they receive are very liberal.  No country in the world pays better salaries than India to its judiciary.  In Bengal a high court judge whether English or native, receives $16,000 a year, and the members of the lower courts are paid corresponding amounts.