New-York tribune., 1883-03-11

| from the beautiful foreign "Forcer-so much ad-
| mired by The Daily Telegraph, and by the disin.
terested Brions who paid to exercise 1t. Would
| the gentlemen of the South have supported pro-
fessed antI-slavery publication IN the old days'
Secondly, the paper of which am briefly giving
the history failed because the natives not sat
isfed with any organ which, having the nominal
| liberty OF opinion accorded to English papers,
stopped short OF the grossest invective and vtupe
ration against the foreign conqueror They thirsted
to say in English all the vicious things they were
forbidden to say In Hindoostani, Bengali or Mara
thi, and the unhappy young editor was often re-
duced to great straits in disposing of his savage
contributors. Many Of their articles appeared
as communications" The proprietor-hmself
as has been said, a native merchant -
was man Of broad education and sound
justice of opinion, always ready to admit the good
done by the English, while believing that it could
have been done just as well by natives, if only
their efforts could be turned in the right direction
But he was too sensible to believe in o course of
unlimited abuse a means for redressing wrongs
The failure of his journalistic enterprise sufficiently
proves that he belonged to q very small class of in
Ttelligent men, altogether too restricted in numbers
TO support any organ of opinion. He made brave
attempt for what he thought right and the editor
he had engaged did his very best. They were
forced to reli9auish the attempt, and believe that
since that time British India has not been dis
turbed by the appearance of an independent
Journal The name of the bold native mer-
chant was Ajoodhya Moth, Cashmere BTahmau,
and myself was the young editor.
The government of India is military despotsm,
by no means improved by the changes wrought
since the days of Lord Lawrence. The efforts Of
the British to maintain their rule have cost more
Indian lives than would have been sacrificed in q
century of internal struggles, and the cunousiy
certain methods of English politics have led TO the
extinction of advantages of trade which were OBJ
noXious TO the voters of Manchester. Englands
useless, and worse than useless, proceedings in
Afghanistan were carried on with Indian money so
long as 1t lasted and when the ogertlxed country
could pay more, England mercIfully advanced to
India n small loan, to help India paying for Eng
lands folhes. The result of all this peace, order
and stainless JUSTICE that India is turned into
junk-shop for England's bungIing failures Force,
and force alone. rules over 100000 900 of Totally
unrepresentedl human beings. The peace"
spoken of is the peace of a crushed and ground
people having absolutely voice IN their own Gov
eminent; the "order" is an order maintained by
Englishmen who kick their servants TO death Il
know of several instances. and prove the asser
tom, who employ the lash in every prison of the
country more savagely and lndiscriminately than
ever was done in the South. and who execute their
frequent sentences OF death with n refinement OF
moral cruelty unheard of in our times; for they
wiliuliy and Intentionally dehe the death of the
unhappy criminal as To convince him that they are
destroying his soul well as his body. The stain
less Justice" consists in systema cally bullying ma
tive magistrates into a sense Of their inerorty and
invariably supporting the decisions Of English
| judgcs-now frequently sent to India from
the English bar without any knowledge
| whatsoever of the country, the languages or the
| people they are 10 judge. No one who has
lived IN India is ignorant of tho common use
OF ortures too revolving TO name for the purpose of
extracting information in criminal evidence.
Least o these ~ the practice of binding the boring
| bcetle--a peculiarly hIdeous thing of the nature
| ofthe West Indian "jgger "-on the flesh Of the
| prisoner, and allowing it to burrow under his skin
until he speaks Such things are done. of course,
| without the official knowledge of the English
magistrate, by the native policemen, men of the
| lowest order of Indian humanity. The magistrate
orders his to procure evidence pain Of dis
missal, and he asks them questions when 1t is
forthcoming.
| These aro some OF the points with which free
press ought TO deal IN India, il there free
press and from what have said IL will be under
stood that they are precisely the points which
editors most carefully avoid. How comforia-
bic mau OF many agreeable social relations venture
To face the storm of denial and anger that delib-
crate statement Of Indian abuses would most
a~suredy raise against hmi Would Savannah
editor have relishrd publishing Uncle Toms
Cabin rs n serial story for the benefit Of his slave
holding subscubersi And yet there is far more
justification for such book to be found IN the
India Of to-day than III the South of twenty or thirty
years ago. The position OF great number of the
two hundred and forty millions of the human race
whom England rules in peace, order and stainless
justice, Is infinitely than that Of a similar
proportion OF slaves in the South before the War =
and the position of their oppreSsors s far stronger
than that of the shareholders. II ever humanity at
large should aIain find leisure TO think of It's suffer-
ing and enslaycd fellows IN the fight of iie 1t is to
be hoped that ts efforts may be directed toward tho
East, and its anlmosity against the cruel despotism
which excuses itself on the ground that 1t has n
right-the right of Force-to cvllize such portions
OF the earth as too weak to resist il, by the
limited and unrestricted use of gunpowder. hogging
and over helming taxation.
+. MARION CRAWFORD.
Boston, March 3, 1888.