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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 
