Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-03-04

and whatever professions they may
make, both are perpetually receiving
the submission of new tribes, and
neither, when once the submission has
lasted few years, is much troubled
by instructions. The curious ANAL
gam of pity, contempt. physical dis
like and desire to see justice done
which constitutes British feeling to-
ward all but white men, produces
line OF conduct which, when once
fairly understood, seems to incline the
dark masses Of the world TO acquesce
in British ascenuency. They seldom
or never like their rulers, whose coldly
proud regard, chills all enthusiasm for
them, and they occasionally resent
their industrial demands. but they
greatly respect the audacity which in
sists on their submission whatever
the numerical odds may be; they are
aware that justice is intended If 1t is
not always done, and they are seldom,
almost never, so provided as to feel
that emancipation would be worth the
terrible struggle through which alone
ii could be obtained.
The war of the dark people against
the British is never, therefore, a war
to the death, and of massive resistance
there is exceedingly little. The truth
of this statement has been manifested
throughout British history in India,
native leaders, however, successful,
never succeeding in rousing the real
people, while province after province,
often equal in area and population to
a great state, after trying the ordeal
by battle once, or in the cases of My
sore and the Sikh kingdom, twice,
has sunk back half-sullen half-content-
ed, but for all political and social
purposes acQuieseent. 1t has been
shown in Egypt, where, If Europe
would leave things alone, We could
govern the valley Of the Nile from
Alexandria to Khartum with 5000
white regulars a small force VI mobile
artillery, and 10000 black trooAs, who
would be just as trustworthy as The
soldiers from Great Britain. So strong
is this disposition among dark m'n
that the greatest difficulty Of the
khalifa arises from the fact dat MS
subjects as distinguished from his
followers, hail the British invaders rs
deliyerers, and that Sir Herbert kitch-
eners is actually able to enlist the
black "dervish" soldiery, and use them,
almost without Il pause for drill,
against their former masters" They
enlist as readily as Pathans have al
ways done after being beaten by the
white invaders.
While, however, we exult in this
power, which is purely moral and of
itself a high qualification for leader
ship in Asia and Africa, it is vain to
deny that the Russians possess it too,
Their conquered people submit as a
rule quite as readily as ours do. Be
come loyal" and enlist even more
readily because the Russians are less
timid than ourselves about granting
them commands. Order, especially
commercial order, soon appears in a
conquered Russian province, and
though it is less perfect and less free
than with us, it Is an enormous I'M
provement upon any system which the
conquered have previously known,
Slavery, though it does not cease, is
ameliorated, and the Russian officials,
though oppressive on occasion and
often very corrupt, strike the people
as an immense improvement upon
their former administrators. The
Russians interfere with social life al
most as little as we do, and contne
their prosecutions to Christian disse1-
tiers, leaving both Mussulmans and pa
gans to believe or disbelieve as seems
to themselves most reasonable. 1t is
vain to deny that the Russians have
a certain charm for the races they con-
quer. Whether 1t is the childlike
element in the Slavs, or their tolerance
and power of mutual comprehension,
which exists between themselves and
the Asiatics, they do succeed more
than we do in breaking down the in
visible crystal wall which divides all
Englishmen from all Asiatics and
Africans. or the Europeans in India,
perhaps one in thousand really UNI
derstand Indians, while one In a hun
dred of Indians understand the Eng
lisbman with whom he is in contact
but if India belongs to Russia one in
ten officials would understand pretty
thoroughly by large majority.
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