The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-02-26

! son visited the country on the Princes invi-
tation, and, after studying Its customs, con-
cluded that the king was the greatest slave
among its 100000 inhabitants. The king
granted the visitor an interview, and Mr..
/ Harrison informed him that what Siam
needed most was roads. In Bangkok, Mr..
Harrison witnessed the cremation of noble,
during which two theatrical performances
were given for the enjoyment Of the people,
death not being considered a TRACED y
| among the Siamese, but a dismissal to a
/ better life.
THE ENGLISH IN INDIA.
In Singapore Mr. Harrison met the first
Briton he had seen since leaving Vancouver
/ who was Gladstone man-Or else who did
not pretend to be tory. In Burmah and
India he was soon among the governing
| Saxonsn In Burmah the Italian residents
| told him that the English had blackened
/ Theebaw's character abominably, and that
the capture of Burmah was simply robbery.
Mr.. Harrison admits that the Italians were
interested in the old regime, and indeed,
! feathered their nests under 1t, but he shows
an inclination to admit the possibility of
England's stealing territory His COM
ments on the character of the English rule
in India-''the kindly British rule" as
Marion Crawford called it-are well worthy
of attention and form a most interesting
part of the book. Only from England, he
says, can the east learn the conception of
liberty, and he questions whether England
is teaching India to be Free She is teach
ing her language and laws through schools
and colleges, but through her representa-
tives she is giving another sort of example.
TYRANNY OVER THE NATIVES.
The English residents, the soldiers and
bureaucrats despise the natives and take no
pains to conceal their contempt. Mr.. Har-
rison was recognized as for American be-
cause he said, "please" to his servant. A
gentleman with whom he conversed de-
clared that civility would ruin the native
servants. Another Englishman refused to
permit Hindoo merchant t. ride beside
him in carriage. 81 did not while in
India" Mr.. Harrison says, "see single in
stance of free, friendly mingling of white
and native people, except among the
high-born natives and the rulers
at grand entertainments. | saw no native
and Englishman in what might be called
friendly and equal intercourse, and from
what | learn from the English residents
themselves there is no such thing as famil-
iarity between them and the majority say
it is right; that the natives are a conquered
people and should be treated as SUCH" And
he quotes an intelligent newspaper saying:
Il have met many of the most intelligent
natives in Bombay. We are very friendly,
but l believe that while they respect and
fear us they hate us in their hearts,
Mr.. Harrison sums up his position by
saying that he thinks it better the people
OF the east should have remained as they
were, stepped in ignorance, rather than that
they should have been given only a little
light, and that Of doubtful character.
IN EGYPT AND GREECE.
An amusing incident of Mr.. Harrison's
journey through Egypt was his meeting
laxative old fellah at the base of Cheops'
pyramid who said his name was "Mark
Twain, and offered to go UP and down the
pyramid in eight minutes.
In Greece Mr. Harrison found Athens
wonderfully grown and improved since his
first visit, in 1852; discovered that King
George was not popular with the people on
account of his foreign birth, and saw the
most beautiful sunset of his life at Cape
Colonna, the southernmost point of Attica.
From Greece Mr.. Harrison went to Con-
stantinople, and thence by natural transac-
ton to Russia, whose forest laws he warmly
commends; thence to Finland, where he
found complaints as he did in Sweden, that
immigration was drawing away the bone
and sinew of the nation to America. Paris
awoke in him some stirring recollections of
the emeutes of 1S51-'52; and hurrying
through England to Liverpool he took the
Alaska for home, there to admit that he had
lost his race
But though he had not Travelled SO fast as
the sun, nor had seen so many things, the
story of his journeyings is a most readable
one. The typical American republican has
made observations III many lands, but he
has rarely been SO well equipped for it as
Mr.. Harrison, nor SO competent to pass
judgment and mpare. ga Race With
the Sun" will add considerably to its au-
thor's already distinguished repute.