The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-07-30 00:00:00

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with this that spirit of self reliance which
enables a man to dare, brikve,andm. kes them
worthy of the name of men. When I was
only five years of age my grandfather made
rue begin to learn all physical exercises ill
vogue amongst us, and I fwas trained to the
use of all arras and in all martial exercises.

But w'iat man now sends his son for such
training? What young man now-a-days '
knows anything of these things? Fifty
years ago, without desiring warfare, every
young man's heart glowed within him at the
thou;rht of some day showing his prowess in
a fair field. Now most young men would, I
fear, contemplate any such possible contin-
gency with very—let me say mixed feel-
ings. If men are to be fit for soldiers—fit
t) fight to any purpose when the time of
trial -.Times, and come it must for every
country—then they must be trained in the
use of arms, they must from their childhood
see their parents, their elders, using arms
aid pacticapating in those martial exercises
which only 34 years ago, in Otulh at least,
were part of every gentleman's occupation.
And there is another very important point.
India is practically being impoverished to a
great extent by the enormous expenses of
her standing army. Sooner or later the
°rushing weight of this ( for her resources)
enormous expenditure will break down either
the country or the Government. Now, by a
judicious encouragement of Indian Volun-
teers, it would be possible to reduce very
greatly this military expenditure and yet
leave the country far stronger for defensive
purposes than it now is.
But I might go on for hours. I might
dwell on the fact that, in the way the Arms
Act is now worked in many localities, the
people, their herds, their crops, are wholly
at the mercy of wild beasts. I might dwell
on the insult, the injustice, the violation of
the most sacred and solemn pledges by Eng-
land to India, that are involved in the rules
that permit Indian Christians, but do not
permit Indian Hindus or Mahomedans, to
volunteer. But I have said enough, and,
indeed, being, as we are, all of one mi,id, too
much already, I fear, on this subject, in
which lam deeply interested ; and I will
only now add that we do not ask Govern-
ment to put arms blindly into all men's
hands, but only to permit, under such rules
and restrictions as it sees fit, the better and
more educated classes of its loyal Indian
subjects to qualify themselves to defend,
when occasion may rtquire, their homes,
their country, and their Government."
It is perhaps needless to say, the subject
being, as the President remarked, one of
those few in regard to which there is abso-
lutely no difference of opinion throughout
the length.and breadth of the land,:that this
resolution was by acclamation, amidst the
most enthusiastic cheering.