(   3.0   )

dise their country's enormous trade—import and export
—by giving any just cause for complaint to the foreign
merchant, whom they cannot replace for a long time ?
that they will not have the sense to recognise that the
maintenance and improvement of that trade demands
nothing more urgently than that no foreigner should
have a suspicion of any but fair and honourable treat-
rifient at their hands ? As regards the public servant,
what reason again is there to doubt that he may not be
supported in the legitimate exercise of his functions,
or that " the rights and privileges guaranteed or implied
in the conditions of his employment " may be tampered
with by the Government if Indians got a share in it ? Is
there any reasonable ground for apprehending that
Indians, representing the best elements of Indian society,
will ever think of attempting to break covenants which
have been solemnly made on their behalf ? Will that
be the way in which they would expect to attract the
foreign expert and tehnically trained man whom it will
be necessary in their own interests to invite to help them
for many a year to come ? Clearly these apprehen¬
sions are not justified.

Some Important Conditions Insufficiently Appreciated.

23. I fear that in dealing with the questions noted
above as well as with many others, one all irriportant
condition of the problem has not received sufficient
consideration. It is this that even if the full measure of
self-government which we Indians have asked for is
conceded, the existing system of administration will
not be torn up by the roots. The Executive Govern¬
ment will continue to be predominently European. It
will still have the decisive voice in all matters of admin¬
istration. The entire edifice of administration which
has been built up in a hundred years will remain un¬
shaken.   The administration of justice will continue to