26/77 Then they came up and asked if I really meant that Government should concern itself with idealistic things--beyond keeping order. Ought they to do so in India ?--I assure you they don't think beyond order. A nigger lynched in Mississippi offends them more than a tyrant in Mexico. He has reduced a large part of the world to order. He is the best policeman in creation; and--he has the policeman's ethics! Talk to him about character as a basis of government or about a moral basis of government in any outlying country, he'll think you daft. |