San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-09-20
THE WHITES IN INDIA.
THE CORPORATION AND GARRISON
WHICH FORM 1.-THE EMPIRE"
40 White NAV Proposes 70 Remain Tn
India What Would Happen II tho
Brown Men struok-Engiish oneiais
Tarry but n Few ycarA

India-Whnt Would Happen III tho
Brown Men struoi-English onieiais
Tary but n Few yearA
Above this inconceivablo mass or hu'
manity. governing all, protecting oil, tax
Ing all. rises what wo call hero "the en-
pire. a corporation OF less than fifteen
hundred men. part chosen by examina-
tion. part by occupation. who aro set 10
govern. and 10 protest themselves In gov
ernlng by finding poy for minute white
garrison Of C5 .0C0 men. one'ifth OF tho
Roman aforementioned tho masses TO DO
controlled are double the subjects OF
Rome-less than the army Of Sweden, or
Belgium. or Holland. That corporation
and that garrison constitute tho Indian
empire" There Is nothing else. Danish
those fftcn hundred men IN black. defeat
that slender garrison In rcd. and tho em
pire has ended, tho structure disappears,
and brown India energies unchanged and
Interchangeable. To support the official
world and its garrison-both. rccollect,
smaller than those Of Dclgium-thero Is.
except Indian opinion. absolutely nothing
NO ONE WILL STAY
Not only Is there no white rnco In india.
not only Is there no white colony. but
there Is no white man who purposes TO
remain. Lord Duf7ertn, whom We scarcely
think Of as middle aged, Is possibly tho
oldest, certainly among tho oldest, OF
wllito men In India No rulerstays there
to help or citicise or moderate his sue
cessOr. No successful white soldier
POUNDS a family. No white man who
makes fortune builds house or buys
ap estate for his descendants. Tho very
planter. tho very engine driver. tho very
foreman Of 7;orEs. departs before he Is w.
leaving no child, or house or trace OF him
self behind. No white man takes root In
India, and tho number even OF so)ourners
Is among those masses imperccptibIe INC
whites IN our own three capitals could
hardly garrison them, and outside those
cslritals arc. except In government en-
ploy, only fcw planters traders and pro-
feSsiorCl men, far fewer than tho b!ncH
men III London.
IL a city like Dcnarcs, stone city
whose builcings rival those OF Venice.
city Of temples and palaces beautiful
enough and original enough to DO a
worlds wonder. yet in which no white
mans brain or hand has designed or ex-
ecutcd anything. II traveller might live
year talking only with tho learned or the
rich, and, unless he had official business
to do. might never SEQ white face. And
away from tho ''stations' planted outside
the native cities 1t Ia 80 everywhere.
There AFRO no white servants, not even
gcor!s. no white policemen. no white
pogtmcn, no white anything. II the
brown men struck for week. the "en-
pire" would collapse like house of cards.
and every ruling man would be q starv-
ing prisoner IN his own house. Lie could
not move or feed himself or get water.
NOTHING Is PERMANENT.
Isholl not soon forget the observation
of one of ths kocnest aud most experienced
OF all observers who arrived In India dur
ing tho mutlny. lie had just landed. and
bad consented to drive with me TO a house
sixteen miles out of Calcutta. On tho
road. ns usual. no noted everything but
at last turned to mo with the question:
Where, then. arc the white menf" mo.
where" was the only possible reply; and
1t Is true of the entire continent. This
absence of white men Is said 70 be due to
climate. but even In tho hills" no one
settles. Englishmen Nvo on the sultry
plains Of New South Wales, Americans.
who arc only Englishmen little desic
Gated. are filing up the stcamy plains Of
Florida, Spunlrds have settled as u gov
erning caste throughout the tropical SEQ
t!ons of the two Americas. Dutchmen
dwell on In java. but the English. what
ever the temptation. will not stny IN
India No matter what tho sacrifice,
whether In money. or dignity. or pleasant
occupation. TN uncomfortable disgust, an
over towering sense of being aliens mex
orably divided from the people of tho
land. comes upon them. and they glide
silently away
It follows that even tn tho minute
official world and the minute garrison
nothing i'll permanent. Tho viceroy rules
for two years. and departs Tho coon
cllor advises for five years. and departs.
Tho gcneiyI commands for Gve years. and
dopnrts The official serves for thirty
years. probably In ten separate countries.
and departs. There Is not III India one
ruling man whom two generations Of In.
dams have known as ruling man. OF al
that IN Europe comes Of continuousness,
hcledity, accumulated personal expert
ence. or the wisdom Of old age, there Is In
fndn not one trace, nor can there ever be,
Imagine II In Europe no sovereign or
premier or commander in-chief ever lived
SIX yearsl 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
ell tho sovereigns. all tho statesmen. oil
the parliaments, all the judges. revenue
boards, projects, magistrates, tax gath
erers and police officers. They are the
empire" and there Is no other.-MereGitb
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