In spite of the perpetual strife between the two tribes this recent raid and bloodshed might have been hindered had the system of Government not been to blame. The great fault in the present system of Government is that be officials are not in touch with their subordinates and with the people. The reason of this being that Government does not allow its officials to remain in a district from ten to twelve gears, a3 in the old clys, but transfers them from one place to another in as many months. The consequence is the official have not time to study the characteristics of their surroundings. Another fault in the system of Government is that those in authority are too young. The cause of some of our most serious troubles in India has been_a disregard of the plainest_ warnings. Had we been more in touch with the people we should have known when to consider and when to repudiate these warnings.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.