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require information, before they will invest their 

 money in undertakings of this kind. But in any case, 

 where it is proposed that thousands of square miles 

 of any country should be placed at the disposal of 

 persons operating 1 in foreign markets, and millions of 

 people employed in cultivating- it, it will be for the 

 Government of that country carefully to consider 

 whether the distribution of profits will be such as 

 fully to compensate for the consequences resulting 

 from the displacement of produce, now for the most 

 part grown for home consumption. 



In regard to lands now r lying waste, the case is 

 different. The results of placing them under culti- 

 vation with cotton, or with any other staple most 

 remunerative to the cultivator, provided the labour- 

 market will bear the strain, can bring nothing but 

 unmixed good to all parties concerned. But the 

 point in regard to the development of Indian sources 

 of wealth, that must be considered before any other, 

 is good management. It is quite superfluous to add 

 that without this nothing can succeed ; and unless a 

 Minister of State -or call him what you will be 

 appointed in India, whose special duty it shall be to 

 look after this department, there will be, not simply 

 a want of good management, but no management at 

 all, and things will go on much in the hap-hazard way 

 they have done hitherto, experiments being taken 

 up vigorously while a Governor-General interested in 

 their success holds the helm, and as quietly dropped 

 in the reign of his successor. I have not the slightest 



