Morning journal and courier., 1888-08-03
A HfndoO Criticism Of Jehn Bull.
 From the Pail Mail Gazettei


 An educated Hindoo, who is writing ser 1 ies of his first impressions of England in 'fThe Indian Spectator" eulogies the comfort of English homes, laments the costliness of English fruits, and declares that John Bull ] has too many thing to attend to to look after cooking. In fruits he excels everybody. In sweets he Is not inferior to the Frenchman, and always inferior to the Indians
 He continues: John Bull loves to be ex- elusive. Every man for himself is his motto. Let me alone is his ideal of society. You \ might travel for hours in the same compart- ! ment of train without exchanging half 6 ! dozen words with your companions. should not be surprised if they wanted & heaven tc Even their firts, male and female, have ar afr of cold solemnity about them which ! makes your blood run cold in your veins ! Their very amusements savor of business. Most of them have cynic disgust of life, are always morose, and though burning with desire to oblige you, quite capable of mak- ing you turn away is disgust at their cold ness. Then there is so much stoutness and solidity in their character. What they do they do with will. If they eat, they eat like giants; if they drink, they drink like giants, turning brandy into water but if they also work they also work like giants. No ha1f-heartedness, no irresolution, no want of earnestness about them. If you see them walking in the streets of London you would think the world had come an end. Yet they are only going to the parks.
 Every body has hobby. The nation is so full of eccentricities. They hold their own: tell lie and stick to it, is their motto; and then they love opposition. It is a crime to be poor. The goddess of wealth has more votaries than any church. To call one beg gar is the greatest insult. Short accounts are settled in heart. Nobody tolerates being under money obligations to another if he can help it. Your money is the test of your merit. In India poor men could live and even be comparatively comfortable. In Eng land it is not so. It is the law of the sur vival of the fttest, and the fittest is hs who command most money. There is a feveish competition everywhere, and to be man of independent means is everybody's ambition. This lies at the root of all that material pro- gress which one everywhere finds in England. But unlike our people whose four per cents or massive buildings or curious jewels are often the only evidence of their wealth, they know how to make good use of their money. Every Englishnan and EnghshWoman works, if not to earn a livelihood, to do good to others. The climate is fatal to an idle man. A French man considers to show capacity is the end
 
 CTS the end of speech in debate is to advance business. They require everybody to be true to his engagements, and often missed many one by being only minute too late. For punctual man, man of work, nothing is too good, and there is not 8 public man who is not a man of work. A good speaker is not always looked upon as the best man in Ministry, Minister who does not work is soon elbowed out. Their Gladstones Har tingtons, Churchills, Parnell, Bradlaughs are working themselves to death in their respective causes, otherwise they would be nowhere. Reserve power. nothing by fits and starts, is the rule. Nobody hates show and bumbug more than they, and the best dressed man is he whose dress excites 10 notice.
 Englishmen talk of the bansful effects of caste in India as if they had none in Eng land, though it may not be in the same sense. A poor man is 8 Sudra and rich man lord, a peer, Brahnin; but the English Sudra can, like Viswanitra of Hin- doc mythology, be Brahmin, not by aus- terities like the royal sage, but austerities in the accumulation of wealth. An English man never pardons his superiors for any familiarity toward him, nor does he pardon himself for any toward those below him. We in India have yet to learn the lesson of stubbornness and resoluteness, and one might willingly sacrifice half the rhetoric of the country for tenth of that spirit of self-help which is so strongly noticeable in England. There they do all that they at- tempt. Perhaps this system ot mutual de- pendence is the great bane of our society. "Joint family" is not their motto; as soon as a man marries he hires separate lodgings and keeps separate house. The Hindoo suffers, the Englishman struggles.