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Title: The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Brown, Robert, 1842-1895
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Publisher: London New York : Cassell, Petter, Galpin & co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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igion—Europeans, Mussulmans, Buddhists, Hindoos, arealike in this respect before the law. There is also, in addition to the varied nationalities—civilised, semi-civilised, and savage—a new race, the offspring of Javanese mothers andChinese fathers, arising on the island. They are said to be superior to either of them,and to bear a certain resemblance to the Japanese (p. 277). There is also kept up an armyof about 30,000 men for use in the Indian Netherlands, but of these the great majority arenatives of the islands. In the Netherlands there exists no idea of governing the countrysolely for the benefit of the natives. The Dutch, for example, do not look upon a Javaneseas a political equal. They discourage the use of Dutch and other European languages, andhave made no organised effort to introduce schools or a national system of education among * Writing iu 1S78, Sir David Weddrrburn (Foitiiii/htli/ licview, No. cx.\.\., III. New Series, p. 100) puts thenumber at over J 1,000,000.
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■vS-^-v,! M^i 155 274 TUE COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD. them. But, on the other huiul, they guaranteed, in exchange for the wealth which the nativescive their country, peace, prosperity, and religious toleration, with security of person andproperty. And, after paying for the maintenance of all these blessings, they considerthemselves entitled to appropriate to their own use the surplus revenue. It is, of course,a question whether the batig slot, or ftivourable balance paid by the Javanese toHollandei-s, does not inflict a greater injury on the receiver than on the giver, by paralysingthe enterprise and energy of the latter. The worst feature in the Dutch East Indian Govern-ment is, according to Max Havelar—and he is confirmed by others—the extremely optimistcharacter of the reports beloved of the Colonial Minister at the Hague. The best officialis the one who troubles the office with fewest complaints against the native officials.Hence the Blue-books are all coulenr Je rose; and, thou

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