Around the world with General Grant: a narrative of the visit of General , ex-president of the United States, to various countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in 1877, 1878, 1879To which are added certain conversations with General Grant on questions connected with American politics and history . fiscated for themost trifling reason, litigation was encouraged, and the result of this was thatthe native pass-ed from the ca-price of the offi-c i a 1 into thehands of law-yers, who soonestablished aclass that for ra-pacity exceededthe course thelawyer cameout to makemoney and
Around the world with General Grant: a narrative of the visit of General , ex-president of the United States, to various countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in 1877, 1878, 1879To which are added certain conversations with General Grant on questions connected with American politics and history . fiscated for themost trifling reason, litigation was encouraged, and the result of this was thatthe native pass-ed from the ca-price of the offi-c i a 1 into thehands of law-yers, who soonestablished aclass that for ra-pacity exceededthe course thelawyer cameout to makemoney and re-turn home, andhe used hispower, the mostdelicate andsubtle known inour civilization—t he powerover a client—towin large enue were given judicial power in many cases, so that a manwho came into a district to collect the revenues of the companyand gather dividends had also the power of confiscation. Outof this came oppression and corruption. The more efficient thecollector of revenue in the eyes of the company, the more op-pressive he was to the people, and as an English writer said atthe time, Each revolving day echoes the execrations of thou-sands, ay, of millions, on the authors of these laws for the miserywhich they have inflicted on misgoverned and plundered N THE EAST IXPIA COMPANY. 77 As to the stories of personal indignity, contempt, and humili-ation visited upon the natives by the Englishmen, this seems tobe a lesser evil, and is so much a part of governing human na-ture that it is hardly worth reciting. I do not suppose that itarose from any disposition to be harsh or unjust. The menwho governed India in the earlier days were like other men—?no better, no worse. The evil was not with the men, but withthe system, and where you make government an ingenious anddisciplined tyranny, the men who carry out the orders of thegovernment are certain to be tyrants. It would be unjust tothe servants of the company to suppose that the
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