Let Britain for these reasons annex, and from the day of
annexation New Guinea will pay all her own expenses; the expenses of the
first three years to be paid with compound interest at the end of that
period.
"Let us begin by recognizing all native rights, and letting it be
distinctly understood that we govern for the native races, not the white
men, that we are determined to civilize and raise to a higher level of
humanity those whom we govern, that our aim will be to do all to defend
them and save them from extermination by just humanitarian laws--not the
laws of the British nation--but the laws suited for them. It will not
take long for the natives to learn that not only are we great and
powerful, but we are just and merciful, and we seek their good.
"That established, I would suggest appointing officers in every district,
whose duty it would be to govern through the native chief, and see that
every native attended to plantations. A native planting tea, sugar,
coffee, maize, cinchona, etc.
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