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act in dealing with far-away possessions is this : clioose 

 your man, change him if you become discontented with 

 him, but while you keep him back him up. 



In Uganda the problem is totally different. Uganda 

 cannot be made a white man's country, and the prime 

 need is to administer the land in the interest of the 

 native races, and to help forward their development. 

 Uganda has been the scene of an extraordinary develop- 

 ment of Christianity. Nowhere else of recent times has 

 missionary effort met with such success. The inhabi- 

 tants stand far above most of the races in the Dark 

 Continent in their capacity for progress towards civiliza- 

 tion. They have made great strides, and the British 

 officials have shown equal judgment and disinterested- 

 ness in the work they have done ; and they have been 

 especially wise in trying to develop the natives along their 

 own lines, instead of seeking to turn them into imitation 

 Englishmen. In Uganda all that is necessary is to go 

 forward on the paths you have already marked out. 



The Soudan is peculiarly interesting because it 

 affords the best possible example of the wisdom — and 

 when I say that I speak with historical accuracy — ot 

 disregarding the well-meaning but unwise sentimen- 

 talists who object to the spread of civilization at the 

 expense of sa^'agery. I remember a quarter of a century 

 ago, when you were engaged in the occupation of the 

 Soudan, that many of your people at home, and some of 

 ours in America, said tliat what was demanded in the 

 Soudan was the application of the piinciples of indepen- 

 dence and self-government to the Soudanese, coupled 

 with insistence upon complete religious toleration and 

 the abolition of the slave-trade. Unfortunately, the 

 chief reason why the iNlahdists wanted independence 

 and self-government was that they could put down all 



