226 FOREST LIFE AND SPORT IN INDIA 
a very considerable extent, and, unfortunately, the 
opportunities of illicitly meeting them increase in 
proportion. If, then, it is pleaded that the public 
treasury cannot afford to pay the reasonable cost of 
an establishment originally maintained under more 
favourable financial conditions, the alternatives are 
obvious—to reduce the establishment either in 
numbers or in morality ; and if neither of these is 
accepted as suitable, then a third course remains, of 
maintaining fewer European and a larger number of 
Indian executive officers, leaving administration in 
the hands of a preponderance of the former. 
The native of India, working in his own country, 
would, considering his expenses, be well paid at 
one-half of the sum required by a European to 
maintain his position. The house rent of the 
former is a trifle compared with that of the latter ; 
he is not pressed by custom, or even by preference, 
to live in the more artificial manner of the West ; 
he is amongst his own people, and pays market 
rates for his necessaries, and has no need of 
European luxuries ; he is not obliged to send wife 
and children to England for -health and education, 
and thus to keep up two establishments on the 
earnings of one. It is highly probable that quite 
suitable Indians of education and honour could be 
found by degrees to fill a great many of the posts 
now held by Englishmen at one-half their salaries, 
and that such men would have more influence in 
defeating unrest than penal enactments and Council 
reforms; for they would come into closer contact 
with the uneducated classes—“the ignorant and 
emotional ”—on whose prosperity British adminis- 
