'It's easy enough to see, if you can compare English with the foreign colonies.' He rose from his chair and launched forth, walking about the room.

'Look at the Germans! There are seven hundred German colonists, all told, in the German colonies, and each of them costs the German tax-payer little short of eight hundred a year.

How many of them are in the English colonies?
And what's the reason?
Why, they want to have the institutions of the Fatherland ready-made in five minutes.

They need the colonies made before they can prosper in it.

The French are better, but they are spoilt by officialdom.