New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-08-03
THE EDUCATION OF 4 PRINCE.

Mr.. Disraeli thought it best to ground HE
motion in the House of Commons for supply
to the Indian visit upon its educational bene-
fit to the Prince. This was as all his hearers
knew, intended for the outside audience, who
had too loudly suggested that half million OF
dollars was a costly price for new hunting
experience for His Royal Highness. His
ability as Nimrod among pigeons quite salts
fes the national ambition in that respect APP
parently, and they were not inclined to pay
an inconyenient price that he might try his
skill on tigers and elephants. MIR. Dlsraeli
Judged, and rightly, that they would sub
nit to pay any price If assured that
tho expedition was going to benefit the brain
or widen the knowledge of that goOd-natured
but dull young man who is some day to rule
over them. 1t is not likely, however, that he or
any of the members of tie House anticipated such
a result in asking or giving the appropriations
What the Prince of Wales knows or thinks OF
India matters very little to India now or here
after. His policy in regard to colonial or
home affairs will be inexOrably nodded for him
by the Government, and his personal fancies
or prejudices received during the present
haunt will not weigh as q feather in the
balance of national expectancy.
But what india knows or thinks Of the
Prince Of Wales and the country which he
represents is just now very vital question.
No American who has travelled in India can
doubt that the English rule has become a
yoke more intOlerable with every year to the
natlve-worn, it is true, with the silence and
patience that belongs to the race, but only
g. hat a
mutiny Mt Lucknow and Delhi is u familiar
story to us all, while the long reign of
cruelty and injustice of which this mutiny
was the frnit was unfamiliar. No English
speakng man, in the horror of the massacrcs
of women and children, asked or cared for the
other side of the story. What that other side
has been since the mutiny is well known to
every student of Indian affairs. The time has
come when the English themselves acknOwl-
edge their policy there failure. This royal
visit is as they know a desperate cxpedient
to restore the prestige of English authority
and the loyalty of native chiefs. In such
a case, economy would be but the
most fatal policy. The barbara splendor
of rajah and rance must be cclipsed by that
of their visitor or the Wait will be worse than
cheap payment for the security to the English
Government of her richest and most dis
affected province.
The mistake made nov is the mistake made
at the beginning of their dealings with this
people. The positive, weighty Englishnan,
intrtnchcd in his civilization and his Chris
tianity, persists in undertaking man of much
finer, subter intellect and stronger religions
instincts than his own. The Indian is not
man 10 be convinced, but savage to be-
PLEASED with gcwgaws or cOwcd by bullets
The long-tried system of injustice and dishon-
es;y by which British rule has embittered
India against her Is not to he altered or
r,ued, and the disattection is to be appcased
by The yisit Of the heir apparent and few
presents. We are much mistaken if the pa
tent, keen Indian DO not estimate at their
exact value both the Prince and Lii. gifts.