INDIAN FAMINES - Institute for Social and Economic Change

118 A FEW GENERAL CRITICISMS.
are too apt to forget that although as a nation
we may prosper, yet individually very many
foolish errors are constantly being committed
which pass unnoticed.
The European non-official class are also a
body of well-educated men. There is no emigration
scheme connected with India; each
man must pay a heavy passage-money, which
generally means that he has had a liberal education,
and that he has gone to India with
some definite object in view. These men also
obtain experience, gathered by the rough usage
of a day-to-day life in actual contact with the
state of things in which they live, and about
which they write.
'Ve have therefore in India a public and a
press whose opinion on their own especial
affairs is well worthy of attention; but it
sometimes happens that an outsider invades
their territory. Of the resulting. effects the
English public will be best able to judge by
reading extracts from some foreign papers in
which English news or politics have been discussed.
How often do we find foreign newspapers
coming to entirely wrong conclusions