FREEST OF MANKIND.
A native of India, though, he does not make his own laws or settle his own taxes, is in one way (says the "Spectator") tho freest of ijiankind. He can go where he likes, buila any house he likes, and, subject to the provisions of the criminal code, live precisely as he likes. Nobody interferes with his creed', even if it is an immoral one, unless, indeed, it involve? murder; and he takes out no license fbr any business unconnected with liquor or opium. If he grows rich nobody objects, and ijj he grows poor he is left, unless actually starving! from a general famine, to. bis kinsfolk and his castemen. He must pay his taxes, and he imi?t abstain from, crime ; but those postulates granted, he need never, from birth, to death, hold speech with, ,an official. ' '
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7727, 10 June 1903, Page 2
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