Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-02-11
ENGLAND IN INDIA.

THE North American RcpoW for
February contains an article from the
pen Of Sir Edwin Arnold. 1t IL en-
titled "rhe duty aud destiny Of Eng.
land In India" II Il deeply interest.
ing for several reasOni--ihe high liter.
ary standing Of the author, tbs Inn
portant character Of the subject, aud
tho ability OF tho writer TO handle the
subject from n well.informcd stand
point. lie has long been associated
with the part Of the British Empire
on which he treats, and is therefore
familiar with India and all questions
bearing upon 1t.
The article Ia lengthy and It Ia not
our purpose 10 elat orately review II,
but 10 specially refer 10 and exhibit the
views of the gifted writer In relation to
one feature Of the sulJect--the effects
that would eusue n Russia should be
successful In Wrestling India from the
grasp OF Great Britain. In the pursuit
OF this object we cannot do better than
Introduce tho following quotation;
al have read during tho recent talk
about India. In connection with the tom
porary trouble In tho Pamir, articles Ia
American papers, lightly and carolessly
but. Of course, clcyerly-penncd, rs II
It were an indifferent matter 10 clyillza-
ton generally, aud to Americans In par
ticular, whether Russia should ever
seriously challenge tho British possession
In India and perhaps oyon some day sue.
coed In oustlng us from the peninsula.
Ia reality, such an event, could It bomli.
would prove the dirc-t occurrence for
human progross-aud indirectly for the
United States. themselves since the over
throw Of the Roman empire by tho
barbarians. Il would DO tho tri-
umph OF the Slav over the Saxon,
and would set back the development OF
Asia, and the advancement Of the human
race generally, at least thousand years.
| eau Imagine some Of the cleyoT young
newspaper men, whom ! have been
everywhere glad to meet responding In
familiar local phrase to this! "Well, but
II would not be our funorall" In this re-
spect they would lind out their mistake
II they should live long enough. The
loss OF India 10 England would mean the
broaking-up aud decay Of our ancient
empirei tho eventual spread OF Slavonic
and Monaghan hordos all over tho va
cant places and open markets OF
tho world, the worlds peace gone;
again, as In days of lielisarius, the march
OF sciences, arts, religions, arrested rs
when omar burned the AleXaudran
Library; aud history once more put bacl,
to tho beginning OF u now effort, under
novel and gloomy auspices, to effect that
which Is the perpetual object OF It's course
and ils combnnlinns-,ho hual amalga-
nation Of all the peoples Of the globe
undor one law aud one common faith
and cuturc.n
ltw0uld be difficult to imagine how
a more potential reason In favor OF the
position that Great Britain Is entitled
TO the sympathy Of the whole civilized
world In her resistance OF the encroach-
ments OF Russia 10 gain possession OF
| iuulh Nhhlh w thiuohleA III lhlkhhkts
The result OF the success Of the designs
Of the Muscovite empire In that great
scheme IL, as perspicuoualy stated by
Sir Edwin, 80 clear ~ TO be almost self.
evident. IL would place incRlculablc
prestige and power In the hands OF
semi'barbarous races that would
practically demolish the development
toward a higher civilization In every
part Of the globe, aud the march OF
mankind toward total emancipation
from grinding despotlsm would be
turned back indefinitely.
The writer Of the paper anticipates
the raising Of objections on the ground
OF the methods by which Gr,al
Britain acquired her Indian posses.
sions, and ingeniously forestalls them
by insisting that there must, in rela.
ton to such matters, be some statute OF
limitations, otherwise the whole
world would have to he "remodelled
from pole to pole" II not, he con-