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CONTENTS.
COLONIAL ADMINISTRATION.
A5
1901
EARTH
SCIENCES
LIBRARY
COLONIAL ADMINISTRATION, 1800-1900.
Six great questions regarding the methods of governing and developing tropical colonies and their people..
1. What share of the government of the successfully managed colony originates at the seat of the home Government?..
2. What share of the administration within the colony is conducted by representatives of the home Government?.
3. What steps are taken to improve the material, mental, and moral condition of the people of the colony?....
4. How are habits of industry and thrift inculcated among the natives?..
5. How are the necessary funds for the conduct of the colonial government raised?.
6. Commercial and tariff relation between the colonies and their governing countries.
Area and population of world's colonies
Review of the colonizing experiences of the century.
Share of government conducted in the mother country
Administration at the seat of the home Government.
British Crown colony system described by Earl Grey
Government in the colony and the share intrusted to the natives.
Defenses of the colonies...
Elective franchise in the colonies..
The civil service in the colonies.
Development of the material, mental, and moral condition of the natives.
Construction of roads and railways
Telegraphs and telephones in the colonies
Postal facilities in the colonies
Methods of intercommunication..
Irrigation in the tropical colonies..
How the cost of development is borne
Systematic study of productive powers..
Diversification of industries in tropical colonies.
Money and banking in the colonies....
Currency and banking systems of the colonies described.
Regulations of banking system in the British colonies..
Emigration of capital to the colonies
Use of chartered companies in modern colonial development.
Laws and law-making in the colonies..
Laws of the world's colonies described.
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