The Irish standard., 1896-05-02
as they are, form the smallest part Of the
evil which English law, imported without
modification into India, could not fail to

modification into India, could not fail to
produce. The strongest feelings of our
nation, honor, religion, female modesty,
rose up against the innovation. Arrest
on mense process was the first step in
most civil proceedings; and to "a native OF
rank, arrest was not only mere restraint
but foul personal indignity. That the
apartments of woman Of quality should
be entered by strange men, or that her
face should be seen by them, are in the
East intolerable outrages s-outrages which
are more dreaded than death, and which
can only be expiated by the shedding Of
blood To these outrages the most dis
tinguished families of Bengal, Bahar and
Orissa were now exposed. "A reign OF ter
ror began--a reign OF terror heightened
by mystery. No man knew what was
to be expected from this strange tribunal.
1t had collected around itself an army OF
the worst part of the native population
infOrmers and false witnesses, and COM
mon barrators, and agents of chicane,
and, above all, banditti Of baliiffs' fol-
lowers compared with whom the retain
ers of the worst English sponging-houses
in the worst times might be considered as
upright and tender-healted. No Nah
rata invasion had ever spread through
the province such dismay as this 1nroad
of English lawyers. All the injustice OF
former expressions, Asiatic and Europ-
can, appeared as blessing when COM
pared with the justice of the supreme
court imposed by the English company"
1t is true that Hastings, with his
forged treaties and despoilment OF an
cient .'beegums,'' is no longer governor
general of India; it is true that an Impey
no longer deals out "justice' in that un-
happy land; but the industrial condition
Of the toiling millions is worse today
than when they were being despoiled to
erect the peacock throne at Delhi, adorn?-
ed with it's Mountain of Light Sir
David Wedderbun--whow will be accepted
as authority even by our own anglo
maniacs-says: "Our civil courts are re-
garded as institutions for enabling the
rich to grind the faces of the poor, and
many are fain to seek a refuge from their
jurisdiction in native territory. We
do not care for the people of India" writes
Florence Nightingale; s'the saddest sight
to be seen in India-nay, probably In the
world, sis the peasant of our Eastern en-
pire'' Miss Nightingale declares that
the Indian famines, which every few
years cost so many millions of lives, are
due to-. British taxation, which deprives
the TyOlS Oh CIlS* u1SdllS O1 CuAIAVdlAO1l 'eaAea
reduces them to a condition far worse
than the worst phases Of American slav-
cry. Mr.: H. M. Hyndman, an English
writer of repnte, declares that In India
men and women cannot get food, because
they cannot save money to buy it. SO ter
rible are burdens laid by Christian Eng
land on that unhappy people. Just as
Ireland exports food to England during
her most devastating ':famines" so does
India send seed food to the Mother
Country in the discharge of govern IN
mental burdens, while her own people are as
starving by millions Henry George.
who has never been suspected of anti
English tendencies, says: The millions
of India have bowed their necks beneath
the yokes OF many conquerors, but worst
Of all is the steady, grinding weight Of
English domination weight which is
literally crushing millions out of exist
cnce and, as shown by English writer's,
is inevitably tending to a most frightful
and widespread catastrophe"
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