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would not be fair to ask them to do so, since 

 the training is but part of the huge co- 

 operative scheme in force at home whereby 

 the wealthy educate and insure the poor, and 

 keep them from want when out of work ; only 

 in this case it is the sons of the capitalist 

 class that we want to catch not for their own 

 benefit, but to train them to supply the 

 masses here with raw materials for the fac- 

 tories and food for the home. Under such 

 circumstances, therefore, who but the Imperial 

 Government at home that is, the representa- 

 tives of those for whose benefit the scheme 

 is being formulated should finance such in- 

 stitutions ? 



Coming to where reference is made in this 

 book as to the necessity of the Government, 

 either at home or in the Tropics, helping those 

 who are trying to solve the difficulties of agri- 

 culture in the Tropics, and the production of 

 crops thereby, I would like my readers to 

 notice the footnote on p. 47, where we are told 

 by no less an authority than The Indian Plan- 

 ters Gazette, of Calcutta, that " much uncer- 

 tainty is attached to practically every branch 

 of tea manufacture. It is surprising that a 

 scientific department was not created many 

 years ago. If such had been the case we 

 should probably now be * groping in the dark ' 

 to a much less extent than we are." This 

 refers to the cultivation of tea, but it could 

 equally well be applied to cacao, coffee, tobacco, 



