WILL INDIAN TROOPS BE EMPLOYED IN THE COLONIES.
The Spectator is in extreme dread? that the employment of ludian troopsy i-> compauy with English troops, iu the war that may yet be forced on us by Russia, will be followed by the use* of them in our Colonies whenever they are disturbed by bad government. " Without asking for more without calling on the people for a sacrifice, without feeling the infinite value of the lives they are expending; thf British Government can in every Colony throughout the worli crash out resistance. Why govern Maoris well, when Maoris can be exterminated in a month, and no English household mourn t Why reform Jamaica. wh«n Sikhs can put down negroes, and no Englishman be missed 1 - Why turnSouth Africa into an India, that is, a great dependency governed in the interests of all races of its inhabitants, when its dirk populations must, even if misgoverned, submit to Madrassee bayonets 1" _
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Kumara Times, Issue 566, 20 July 1878, Page 2
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