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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 Zhe [udzan 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, 
