The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-09-27
EMPIRE OF INDIA.
Partial Failure Of Missionary
Work There.
c.vlLlzlno FORCES At WORK.
raIk q Ms. .. 4. Tw1gg. for Twenty
Years n shs Indian Civil ssrvies
--Orisntsl Life.

81 usg Of China and across the Pacific. MI.
Tvixr 3 sflI young. and his skin IL jast touched
Mn IL bropss sdded b. exposure in tropical
o1tme.
~rndis = large country. and there are 20
1any snfpes 70 say sbout IL fhst hardly know
vtsrs 70 bsg1n. )" he remarked 70 PosrIsTELr
fse.rcRs reporter yesterday afternoon Il bsve
- II under peculiar circumstances - head OF
- 81 the Northern districtA You zee, the
spyernnsnt there 10 very simple. India IL
1ixsded into districts Of, say 1000 square miles
go. ana containing from 1.05o, 900 70 100000
1nhabstanfs. Each Of these districts 10 under .
hsod. who Ii accountable for everything going
ou--fhe schools. polics. revenue and courts
- nader his general charge. and IL he cannot
Nm things araighs be must make complaint
q - eosegnmenf For the sake of convent
epcs I'VE oS nix Of these districts are Jumped
faeethor under one commissioned. - he ID
ea11eA. who deals direct y with the government
m Tie hoad Of esch district has the great re-
eponsibf1ity. He Il usually xuropean-indeed,
ycu nsy ny slwsys-and the three or four
hsods II his departments, police. schools, and
oGcoru ne nstivea IL IL grest mistake 70
fnag1ne, - most people do. that most Of the
eoVornment ofFiceFe are Eneiishmen. for there
- only three or four Of N IN each district,
vtfJe ehers ars in addition some one hundred
and 6fsy Or 20 superior native officers. and about
80 shOosaud inferior ones. But u must be
{ oe8nowjedged that the few mails Offices. those
= essat sespcndbilfty and trust are tn TIE
hsnds 81 Kuropesna
sThe government is doing ail 1t can to put
oDces n the hands Of the natives; but the
nssa& trouble has been thss the natives are an
trustworthy. They have vcry slight sense 81
pnkuoua1 iptegrify. and II you put IN Indian in
= js1dgs he would be putting his friends AMI
1e16Nyes into the minor Offices. selling the
oGIoes, o. selling his judicial decisions % that
II sbost time hs would Be . millionaire Not
Ni1hsiandipz this fact, we are able 70 rely more
ard more upon the natives for positions OF
txus& md homer, ana We are slowly. but surely.
thiuk, educating them mp 20 standard OF In
togxity Inst makes II possible for them to get
o1o0g without bringing scandal into the man
aGoment Of sGsifa come Of the natives arc now
lofag very well in inferior judgeships, where
DER Acfs are subject 70 review By the superior
ooorts. uhich--in case anything goes wrong or
eouupt work 10 suspccsed-can make snvestigsr
ttoo or sevsrse decisions.
This system Of government IL simple, but
none tho Les effective. In Kngland. - In most
xuropean countries. and perhaps In your
Amo11ca here. the trouble 10 that there are too
nssny iaus with no one directly responsible for
ouforcsng them. But in India the head Of the
A1ser5ct Is bound 70 answer for all difficulties
fhst msy ariss.
'youy question - 70 the physical condition
q the people reminds me that IN no other
esnatry u {; 20 forcibiy demonstrated thst Que
Nan h not ~ good ~ another. The prevalent
impsssion il that the Indians are . rice-eating
poople- This II true only Of the coast people
WHOSE main food Ii rics and nsh. Like other
naf3ens with this diet they are weak and under
mSed But Il IL not 70 with the up-counfry men
- nosthern India; they are - nne . looking
Snns - ron would care 10 see-tall. straight
- 49, H.
Into thin cake about ~ large around ~ the top
- your hat The richer people eat wheat pre-
eosod In the same wsy, but the miilet 10 tbs
osapJe for the masses. This furnishes the car
honsee0us paSt Of their good For the nitrogen
ous element which we get from meat, they 60
- peas and beams, which they boil into thick
soup and spread ON the cakes have mentioned
their rice cakes Although they eat very little
meat this food seems 70 agree pretty well with
ne up-counssy men: and In spite OF their early
marriages they grow 70 good size Yon know
they ere bstrothed In infancy. and marry in
their early teens.
s-Ihe big fellows from the north OF India are
each worth legion Of the relocating Bengsiese,
and indeed the Indian army ID recruited from
these men. 1t Ii . singular fact that the Bengal
soldiers and the Bengal cavalry do not contain
single Bengalee. II you 60 into shop in
Calcutta the man q the door who watches the
door % soe that no one steals stuff and carries
ls %. II IN up-country Indian. He would at
tick or Chase thssf, bat Bengalee would be
afraid 70.
Tho most prevalent disease IL the fever by
which mean malarial fever. The deaths from
cholera do not compare with the deaths from
this cause. II 10 intermittent you know, and
the chills and the feve- alternate. This disease
u really the scourge of India, ~ Of all tropical
countries. and II Il the thing that stands in the
way Of the settlement Of Africa, ~ Is proposed
b the countries going down there. Quinine
and arsenic are the two great remedies for it,
and IL any one can find more certain specific
he viii Be bcneiactor of the race. The theory
for the disease IL that's fever microbe attacks
the red corpuscles Of the blood. and the debris
has to be cleared away by the spleen. which
thus 10 overworked softens and becomes greatly
swelled- Indeed you will see people who have
suffered from this fever with distended bellies
from the swelling Of the spleen. Scientists
claim now to have discovered the fever mi.
csobe, but they have not been able a. yet to
propagate IL outside OF the body. When they
succeed in this they may fnd q surer specific
for It.
THE diseases Of our civilization have made
NO great fnroads into India. and the natives are
not going down before them as the American
Indians are. The cholera, OF which 80 much
10 said 10 endemic, that il, prevalent all the
time In parts OF India and In those parts 1t ID
never epidemic: for the people seem hardened
to IL You know how race gets hardened to
the diseases peculiar TO il
I'm that connection there is curious fact in
connection with the use OF opium. In India
they eat II. and unless they 60 to excess there
- no great injury done. In China they smoke
It, and unless the smoking Is carried to excess
there seems to be no great evil But the queer
thing Is that II q Chinamsn begins 10 ea-
opium that Is practically the last OF him: and il
IN Indian begins TO smoke il he is done for. The
the government Is using every means &c
check IL.
s'You hear great deal about the English
governments connection with the opium trade
The facts are simply these: The government
offers certain man 80 much an acre for ali the
opium he may raise; but the government must
take every bit In this way in various parts o,
India good deal of opium Ia raised the govern
menr taking all and paying fixed price. Then
the stuff IL all boiled up together to make 1, uni
form, and IL taken to Calcutta and sold a,
auction to the highest bidder, who ships /, "a
China The government having the monopoly
gets very large price at the auction, and clear.
say s,00oo 600 or so. 0oo 900 year. don't know
the exact figures.
"A good many worthy people are making q
great outcry about the matter: yet several
things must be remembered. The removal al
this system OF income would make an enormous
hole In the Indian revenue. Besides that, the
Chinese are bound to have opium. Their gov.
eminent has tried TO prohibit its production.
but has failed. Why then should not the En-.
giish furnish them with . good quality of the
article, rather than have the Cinnamon produce
. poor quality? Furthermore, the highest med.
teal authorities say that opium Is on the whole a
good The evil comes from its abuse. and even
reckoning the evil into the account, the drug on
the whole Is Q good. The government simply
regulates IL sale. and such regulation believe
- wise.
'Chins. I understand. wants to put a prohib.