Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1890-12-06
A HlNpoo CRITICISM.
An Educated Fast Indian Gives HIS rm-
pr~ssions OF the English.

An Educated East Indian Gives HIS fm-
pr~ssions OF the English.
An educated Hindoo who Is writing O
series of his first impressions Of England
in The Indian Spectator, eulogizes the
comfort Of English homes, laments the
costliness Of English fruits and declares
that John Bull has too many things to
attend to TO look after cooking. In
fruits he exeels everybody. In sweets
he is not inferior 10 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 soci-
ETY.. You might travel for hours in the
came compartment Of a train without ex-
changing half dozen words with your
companions. should not he surprised
II they wanted u heaven 90 themselves.
Perhaps Swedenborg was right. Even
their fiirts, male and female, have an air
of cold solemnity about them which
makes your blood run cold in your veins.
Their very amusements SAVIOR of bust
ness. Most Of them have a cynic dis
gust OF life, are always morose, and,
though burning with a desire to oblige
you, quite capable of making you turn
away in disgust at their coldness. Then
there Is 30 much stoutness and solidity in
their character. What they do they do
with will. II they eat, they eat like
! giants; II they drink, they drink like
: giants, turning brandy into water. but IL
q they work, they also work like giants.
. No half heariedness, no irresolution. nc
|. want Of earnestness about them. Ifyou
!, see them walking in the streets Of Lon
don you would think the world had com,
!, 10 an end. Yet they are only going e
the parks.
7 Everybody has hobby. The nation il
!, 30 full of eccentricities. They hold theil
I own; tell a lie and stick to it, il thei
u motto; and then they love opposition.
> is crime to be poor. The goddess o
e wealth has mere votaries than an,
70 church. To call one beggar Is tn
tt greatest insult. Short accounts max
J. long friends. SO goes the English proverb
ie not like the Indian proverb, friends &C
in counts are settled IN heart Nobod
A, tolerates being under money obligation
le to another II he can help it. Your none
n. is the test of your merit. In India poo
es men could live and even be comparativel
~ comfortable. In England it Is not So
~ Is the law Of the survival of the fittest
and the fittest is he who commands mo-
money. There is feverish competitio
everywhere. and 10 bc a man Of indepef
he dent means Is everybody s ambition. Tn
is lies at the root Of all that material pre-
va gress which one everywhere finds
v. England But unlike our people, who's
"a per cents or massive buildings OF cur
hy ous jewels ore often the only evidence {
i. their wealth, they know how to NAL
% good use of their money.
4 Every Englishman and Englishwoma
- works, IL not 10 earn livelihood, 10 q
~ good 10 others. The climate is fatal |
eu an idle man. A Frenchman considers
10 show capacity is the end of speech in d
ss- bate; an Englishman considers the end
er speech in debate is 10 advance busincs
r. They require everybody TO be true to h
Is engagements, and often missed many
Is, one by being only minute too late. II
in a punctnal man, man of work, nothir
ey is too good, and there is not public ma
he who is not a man of work. A goo
,r speaker is not always looked upon rs Il
best man in a ministry; a minister wi
does not work is soon elbowed out. The
@. Gladstones, Hartingtons, Churchilts. Pa
,s. nells, Bradlaughs are working themselv
ne to death in their respective causes, othe
IL Wi9c ltttS Nouiu EAbtt
1'a power, nothing by fits and starts, Ia Il
IL rule. Nobody hates show and humbl
- more than they, and the best dressed mi
- Is he whose dress excites no notice.
Englishmen talk Of the baneful effec
Of caste in India as if they had none
~ England, though il may not be in q
~. same sense. A poor man is Sudra al
rich man lord, peer. Brahmi
far but the English Sudra can, like Visw
me mitra OF Hindoo mythology, be Bra
oil min, not by austerities like the roy
ed, sage, but the austerities in the accum
red lation of wealth. An Englishman nes
ms pardons his snperiors for any familiar
d. toward him, nor does he pardon hims
for any toward those below him. We
India haze vet 10 learn the lessen
DDS stubbornness and resoluteness, and o
ant might willingly sacrifice half the rh
ap- oric of the country for a tenth Of Il
in spirit Of self help which is so strong
ire noticeable in England. There they
lie all that they attempt. Perhaps this g.
~ tenn of mutual dependence Is the gr'
bane OF our society. Joint family"
n not their motto; rs soon as a man mi
'. ~ ries he hires separate lodgings and kes
'ns separate house, The Hindoo suffers, |
', sue Englishman struggles. Pail Mall