"There is a very efficient police system all through Java, and by means of it, added to the employment of the people in honest industry, the amount of crime has been enormously reduced in the past fifty years. Every man, woman, and child in Java is registered, and each village chief is made responsible to a certain extent for the conduct of his subjects. An offence against the law can be readily traced, and if the village or its chief are at fault, a fine is assessed upon them. Consequently everybody in a village is directly interested in seeing that everybody else behaves properly.
"Well, to sum up the results of the Dutch system of culture in Java, we can say as follows:
"From being an expense to Holland, the island now yields an annual revenue of more than five millions of dollars to the royal treasury, after paying all the costs of the colonial rule. The expenses of the latter are by no means small, as the salaries of the officials are on a liberal scale. The Governor-general receives $100,000 a year, besides $60,000 additional for entertainments. It is said that the latter figure pays nearly all his expenses, so that he can, if he chooses, lay aside $100,000 a year for a rainy day. A Resident in a province receives $10,000, in addition to free rent of house and all surrounding buildings, and an allowance for extras. The subordinate officials are paid in proportion; so that nobody is obliged to rob the government or the people in order to make an honest living.
RETAINERS OF A JAVANESE REGENT.
"Crime and litigation have been so reduced that the sittings of the local courts do not average thirty days a year.
"Formerly there was much poverty and suffering in Java; now nearly every man, woman, and child appears to be well fed and clothed, and a beggar is a very rare sight.
"The import and export trade have been increased fourfold, in spite of the protective policy, which is the necessary attendant of the Java culture system.
"The population has more than trebled in sixty years, and promises to increase in the same ratio, unless interrupted by some great calamity.