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France? India pays for all the soldiers lent to
her; in fact, as represented in one quarter, she
acts as a screen to the world generally to hide
the large armed force that England has at her
command. India affords a main outlet to the
youth of England, and supports those who accept
this task of governing her; she pays all
her loans-nay, she even pays for an occasional
ball to a Sultan, for the honour and glory of the
English nation; she lends troops, and pays them
for such affairs as Abyssinian wars; in fact, she
pays her way all through, and England does
not contribute one direct penny to her support.
England, it is said, holds India from a purely
philanthropic point of view, and I may therefore,
then, be asked, why should England contribute
to the funds of India? I will not answer
this fully, but will merely put the question,
Supposing America and Russia to combine and
respectively to attack Canada and India, where
would England concentrate her forces? The hypothesis
may be somewhat problematical, but
it is sufficiently near the mark to justify the
query. Or, since Russia is considered a desirable
neighbour in Central Asia as a philan-