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with the light of this new knowledge, the ques- 

 tion will be differently viewed, and that if invita- 

 tions be still held out to English capitalists to 

 bring or send their money into India, some endea- 

 vour will be made to aid them in obtaining the 

 means of making use of it. If not, capitalists will 

 decline the offers made, and the solution of the 

 problem must be left to time and circumstances. 



That it is the duty of a Government, with popula- 

 tion excessive in some parts, and large tracts of rich 

 land unpopulated in others, to take some measures to 

 encourage the transfer of the surplus population to the 

 surplus land, no reasonable being will deny. In older 

 and richer countries, in which the people are more 

 active, intelligent, and enterprising than the people 

 of India, in short in self-governing countries, 

 a Government has little more to do than to 

 advertise land, and poor people very soon find their 

 way to it. Here it is different. Advertisements 

 are so much waste paper. The people who are 

 wanting, cannot read or understand them. If they 

 could, they would not believe them. Or if they 

 did, they have not the means to avail themselves 

 of the advantages they hold out. 



And this brings me to the third point of this 

 important subject Capital. 



In treating of the rates of interest for money pre- 

 vailing in this country, I have said sufficient to 

 show that the popular notion of the riches of India 



