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tion the Island has never been as really prosperous as it 
is now. As the whole Island gets under cultivation there 
will be more chance of having white settlers in the 
higher hill-lands. Again, the School-master has been 
very a6tive throughout the West Indies for many 
years past, and the majority of the younger people 
have come under the influence of education. Whatever 
it may not have done for them, education has taught the 
West Indian African to think. The West Indian 
African who has learned to read, is at the present time 
thinking how cruelly Mr. Froude has misrepre- 
sented him. Moreover, English rule is as powerful 
now as it has ever been, and there is no intention 
of withdrawing its beneficent influence from the West 
Indies. Whatever he may think of the Black Man, Mr. 
FROUDE cannot but admit that the West Indian African 
does not prove himself un-English by his desire to 
have some say in the election of those who are em- 
powered to raise and spend his Taxes and to make Laws 
for him. Those of mixed race and many Whites,— 
Englishmen still, though not living in England, — are of 
the same way of thinking. Those Whites who dissent 
already enjoy as Government nominees, or through 
Government nominees with an identity of interests, the 
privilege they would deny to their fellow colonists. They 
evidently appreciate the luxury of being able to spend 
other people's money. A Legislature representing but 
one class can perfect the system of taxing the people of 
a place, rather than the property of a place, so as to make 
it rank as one of the fine arts. Au reste, no one wants 
Universal Suffrage, Responsible Government, or any 
extreme measure. Representative Government must 
