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Excerpt from Speeches of Viscount Milner
The reasons for the introduction Of self-government are of a different character. The great reason is that men, quite naturally, prefer-to manage their own affairs, or to think that they are managing them, and govern ment is such an imperfect business at the best that it is, as a general rule, more important to have a system which people like than to have a possibly better system which they like less. Moreover, if things go wrong m a self-governing C'olony, as they will at times go wrong anywhere, the blame does not fall on the Imperial Government or its representatives. There is no excuse for hammering poor old Downing Street. The good relations between the Mother Country and the Colony are not affected, and these are really of far greater moment than any slight loss, if there should prove to be a loss, in the efficiency Of your local Administration.
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