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(at present) irresponsible committees and profiteering 

 manufacturers will treat these planters and merchants in 

 return. The public are not likely to benefit, since the 

 profits " are to be divided with the Government," and as 

 " divided " means that the profits go to more than one 

 party, one wonders who is to share the spoils. So far this 

 has not been made clear, but I wager that neither the 

 producer nor consumer will benefit, as no one has, as yet, 

 even hinted at cutting down the profits of the manu- 

 facturers, whose goods go up, up, up, whilst we are told 

 that the price of raw cacao must come down, and those of 

 copra, &c., have been drastically limited. It is our duty 

 to support our Government, and we shall all do so, of 

 course, but only so long as self-constituted committees are 

 not allowed to influence and govern the Government, as 

 some views spoken and written show a tendency to be the 

 case, relying on the next elections to carry the votes of the 

 working classes against the interests of the Tropics. 



CHAPTER VI. 



By not allowing the ex-German Colonies to 

 go back to that Country, 



Tropical Life, April, 1917. 



Every Englishman and pro-Ally must have listened 

 with unalloyed pleasure and satisfaction to the concluding 

 remarks made some little time back by Mr. Walter Long 

 (our Secretary of State for the Colonies) at the West- 

 minster City Hall when, referring to the future fate of the 

 ex-German colonies, he told us that " We have acquired 

 possession of different German colonies in various parts of 

 the world. Now, I speak with knowledge and with responsi- 

 bility, and I speak as the representative for the moment of 

 those Overseas Dominions which are the pride and glory 

 of our Empire to-day, when I say — Let no man think that 

 these struggles will have been fought in vain. Let no man 

 think that these territories ivill ever return to German rule." 



This weighty statement had, of course, been duly con- 



