This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ...for practical purposes, have absolutely no power. The representatives of the French colonists may be said virtually to compose these councils. Although they have been neither so influential nor so corrupt as the colonial council of Cochin China, they, too, may fairly be cited in support of the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ...for practical purposes, have absolutely no power. The representatives of the French colonists may be said virtually to compose these councils. Although they have been neither so influential nor so corrupt as the colonial council of Cochin China, they, too, may fairly be cited in support of the contention that it is unwise to give sole political power to the white colonists in matters in which the native population is equally interested; for they have never given proof of the ability of viewing the colonial situation apart from the narrow interests of their class. On the contrary, the manner in which the Algerian councils have used their political influence for the exclusive and selfish purpose of benefiting the French colonists at the expense of the natives, has done much to perpetuate the hatred between the races and to bring the French government into disrepute. The provincial councils of Algeria, while they represent only the French element, nevertheless make up the entire budget of the province or department, with the result that the taxes, though collected chiefly from the natives, are spent almost entirely for the benefit of the colonists. Thus, in the department of Constantino, which is the most radical in the anti-native attitude of its colonists, some of the electoral districts have the following ratio between electors and natives: Biskra, 251 electors and 116,265 natives; Akbow, 287 electors and 219,865 natives. In this department the taxes collected within the military territory, which is inhabited almost exclusively by natives, between 1881 and 1896 averaged 600,000 francs annually. However, during this whole period, no money was spent on internal improvements in this part of the province; it was all put into the building and...
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