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THE INDIAN POPULATION 
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find fault, but difficult to find a remedy, still perhaps in 
this case the lines on which the remedy should run 
seem fairly clear. 
The Indian says daily, and writes the same in his 
newspapers, that he is as good a man as the European 
and demands equal treatment with the same. By this 
he means presumably that he would take any 
advantages that the European may have which he, the 
Indian, has not, but would not incur any of the 
liabilities and responsibilities of the latter. I would 
suggest that our answer to him should be: “Very 
well, you say that you are equal to a European, you 
shall in future incur his responsibilities and live like a 
man and not like a beast.” Thus it would be pointed 
out that any European entering the country has to 
show means of ^50 or else evidence that he is going 
direct into some situation, and this liability would in 
future be incurred by our Indian subjects as well. 
Then I should point to his miserable hovels and say 
that the lowest Europeans would not be allowed to live 
in such as these, but must inhabit decent sanitary 
buildings and that this privilege would be his also. 
Finally, I would put forward every possible effort, and 
would rout out every brothel, every illicit still, every 
receiver of stolen property. If the owners of these 
“ businesses ” had been Europeans they would long 
ago have had short shrift, and the Indian claims to be 
at least as good as the European. 
I firmly believe that by such means a plague-spot, 
a great and damning reproach, may be removed, 
and that in time the word Indian may be no longer a 
term of reproach but even of congratulation through¬ 
out the Protectorate. 
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