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tailors, for few of them could make coats and dresses. There is room 

 in every community for people with different capacities, and if we have 

 the round plug in its proper place the result is good. 



The negroes, East Indians, coloured people, Chinese and Europeans 

 are all immigrants or their descendants and some' of them are good colo- 

 nists. The immigrant who becomes a colonist is valuable, but he who 

 wants to retire from the colony is not so satisfactory ; this applies to all 

 for it is not the East Indians alone who wants to go " home." There is a 

 break in the continuity when a Civil Servant retires and does no more for 

 the colony. We may praise British Guiana, but outsiders will perhaps say, 

 " Why then does everybody want to get away?" The people who have 

 been prominent in colonisation schemes have in many cases retired to live 

 elsewhere. This was formerly more notorious, for the object of the old 

 proprietor was to flaunt in English Society as a Nabob. There should be 

 continuity of the family even though individuals retire ; this is rare. 

 .Real progressive continuity comes through people making homes and 

 raising families ; a man who settles down in a country has a real interest 

 in it for the sake of his children. There has been some progress in this 

 respect during late years, but there are many people now in England who 

 mioht have been useful as real colonists. 



