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Rh in the administration of justice, the education according to Western methods, and the free admission of private enterprise have all brought about a change. If the native has not become more progressive and more sensible, he is at least wiser in matters about which he had best be kept in the dark, unless the government means to remove coercion at the expense of the exchequer."

The Amsterdam "Handelsblad" remarks that, "as far as the Dutch possessions are concerned, coercion and monopoly indeed must go. People who cannot see this betimes will find out their mistake rather suddenly."

That sage socialist, Élisée Reclus, remarks that "once more it appears that monopoly ends in the ruin not only of the despoilers, but of the state."