The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-07-12
THE WHITES IN INDIA.
THE CORPORATION AND GARRISON
WHICH FORM THE EMPIRE"
No White Man Proposes To Remain III
India-WIiat Would Happen II tho
Brown Men Struck-English Officials
larry but "a Few Years.

Brown Men S~truck-English Officials
larry but a Few Years.
Above this incOnceivable mass of hu-
manity, governing all, protecting all. tax
ing all. rises what we call here Tho en-
pire."a corporation of less than fifteen
hundred men, part chosen by cxamina-
ton, part by co-optation, who are set to
govern. and to protect themselves in gov
crning BY finding pay for IA minute white
garrison of GJ, 900 men, one-tifth OF the
Roman legions-though the masses to be
controlled are double the subjects of
Rome-less thar the army of Sweden. or
Belgium, or Holland. That corporation
and that garrison constitute the indian
empire" There is nothing else. Danish
those fifteen bundled men III black, defeat
that slender garrison ia red, and the EN-
pirc has ended. the structure disappears,
and brown India energies unchanged and
Interchangeable. To support the official
world and its garrison-both, recolleet,
smaller than those of Belgium-therc Is.
except Indian opinion. absolutely nothing.
40 = H. srAy
Not only is there 10 white race IN India,
not only is there no white colony, but
there is no white man who purposes To
remain. Lord Dufferin. whom We scarcely
think of ~ middle aged. is possibly the
oldest. certainly among the oldest. of
white men i'm India. No rulerstays there
To help or ~citicise or moderate his sue
ccssor. No successful white soldier
POUNDS a family. No white man who
makes Il fortune builds IL house or buys
an estate for his descendants. The very
planter. the very engine driver, the very
foreman OF works. departs before he is 60,
leaving no child, or house or trace of him
self behind. No white man takes root III
India. and the number even of sojOurners
is among those MASSES imperceptiblc. The
whites in our own three capitals could
hardly garrison them. and outside those
capitals are. except IN government en-
ploy. only a few planters. traders aud pro
fessional men. far fewer than the black
men in London.
iii Il city like Bcnares. 4 stone city
whose buildings rival those of Venice, IA
city of temples and palaces beautiful
enough and original enough 10 BE- Il
world wonder. yet in which no white
man brain or hand has designed or eX-
ecuted ANYTHING. a traveller might live a
year talking ouly with the learned or the
rich. aul. unless he lad official business
10 do. might never see a white face. And
agyay from the stations planted outside
the native cities it il 50 everywhere.
There are no white servants. not even
gro0ms. q white policemen. no white
pOstmcn, no white anything. II the
brown men struck tor d week, the "em-
pirc' would collapse like 4 house or cards,
and every ruling man would be Il starry
ing prisoner IN lis own house. He could
not move OF iced himself on get water.
NOTHING - PERMANENT
! shall not soon forget the observation
ol one IF the keenest aud most experienced
II all observers who arrived IN India dur
ing the mutlny. He had Just landed and
had consented 10 drive with me to q house
sixteen miles out OF Calcutta. On tho
road, a. usual, he noted everything, but
At last turned to ne with the question.
Where, then are the white mem, NJ
where. was the only possible reply; and
il il true Ot the entire continent. This
absence u white men is said to be due to
climate. but even ia the hills no Ia
settles. Englishmen live on the sultry
plains III New South Wales. Americans,
who are only Engllshmen a little desic-
Gated. are filling up the steamy plains u
Florida, opaniards have settled a. Il gov
erning caste throughout the tropical sec
tlOns of the two Americas; Dutchmen
dwell on in Java; but the English, what
ever the temptation, will not stay IN
India No matter what the sacrifice.
whether ia money, OF dignity, OF pleasant
occupation, an uncomfortable disgust, al
ovcrp1wering SENSE VI being aliens mex
orably divided from the people VI the
land, comes upon them, and they glide
silently away.
II follows that even III the minute
official world and the minute garrison
nothing is permanent. The yicerOy rules
for live years, and departs. The coun-
cilOr advises for tive years, and departs.
The general commands for five years, and
departs The official serves for thirty
years. probably in ten separate countries,
and departs. There is not in India Ii
ruling man whom two generations VI III
dians nave known Us ruling man. OF all
that in Europe comes OF cOntlnuOusness, !
heredity, accumulated personal expert
ence, or the wisdom OF old age, there IS IN
India lot one trace, nor can there ever De.
Imagine ii III Europe 10 sovereign or
premier or commander in chief ever lived
six years. Yet these men, thus shifting,
thus changing, do the whole work OF leg
islating, governing, and administering,
all that is done in the whole Of Europe by
all the soyereign5, all the statesmen, all
the parliaments, all the judges, revenue
boards, projects, magistrates, tax gath
crers and police officers. They are the
empire, and there is no other .-Merecith
Townsend in F%ortnightly Review.