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honourable and independent men as those who are 

 resident proprietors. 



Again, we want the small farmer badly, and per- 

 haps, where conditions suit, his is the most desirable 

 position of any. What his social class or position was 

 when he left England matters not a jot. On his 

 arrival he takes rank solely as a man. What is wanted 

 is industry, honesty, and the more capital the better. 

 For this position there is one class at home to whom 

 this country seems especially suited and that is to the 

 public-school boy. 



We who are living out in this Protectorate have 

 read with mingled disappointment and satisfaction a 

 considerable flood of articles in various magazines 

 giving expression to the opinion that our much- 

 vaunted public-school boy is little better than a drug 

 in the market, and, to speak plainly, not wanted in our 

 older Colonies, more especially in Canada and 

 Australia. The disappointment has been caused by 

 the shattering of the illusion that, in spite of a 

 thoroughly unsuitable education, our public-school 

 product was fit to go anywhere and do anything. Our 

 satisfaction is the result of the feeling that we have 

 here at the present moment a practically unlimited 

 field for this surplus class which the older Colonies 

 despise. In fact, one might go almost so far as to say 

 that those very qualities which render him superfluous 

 and antagonistic to our Canadian and Australian 

 cousins are the very ones which cause him and this 

 Protectorate to be almost ideally suited to each other. 



That the product of our great public schools is not 

 in the main suitable to the more advanced of our 

 colonies is a statement that one fears it is impossible to 

 deny (though Mr. Lloyd George's opinion that in 



