The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-18

almost impossible for o native success.
fully to compete at the periodical examine.
lions, which are held In England. The
committee recommended that In order TO
remedy this, examinations should be held
simultaneously In England and India,
identical In their nature, the competitors
being finally classified In one list, accord
ing to merit, by the Civil Service Com.
m~issioners.
This very fair and Just solution was re-
jected, an Il would have ended the monop-
oily that has been enjoyed by B%ritish-born
subjects for over forty years Of employment
in the Indian civil service. Its rejection
blighted the hopes Of the Indian people,
and has contributed, along with the spread
OF education, to rouse them to demand,
with q voice described by English reac.
tionary journals as "seditious," the fulfill
ment Of the promises successively made by
British Governments In 1888 and 1853.
In 1897 the question was brought before
the Government OF the day In England, and
much show was made Of considering how
native Indians could be admitted to share
in the administration Of their country, but
all instructions issued were thwarted by
what Lord LYTToN called "subterfuges,"
and with great ingenuity.
In 1870 q law was passed r~eiterating and
confirming the rights Of native Indians to
employment In the government Of their
country, but, like the royal promises that
had preceded 1t, It was enacted only to be.
come a dead letter.
What may be the ultimate issue of the
struggle now begun in India for only q
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volved in obscurity. The present Govern.
ment Of England has at Its head q states.
man who. a few years ago, said that the
only policy for India was one Of drift and
blood-letting. But that policy is now
stranded; and 1t is not Indian blood only
that Is flowing or Indian money only that
Is being spent.
The admitted failure of the military ex.
petition against the Afridis to accom-.
plish Its object. with the consequent dim.
mutton Of the British prestige, is itself
a material addition to the strength Of the
Indian demand. British rule has existed
in India for a century and q half, and not q
| promise made to its people by It's alien
rulers has yet been fulfilled. The overtaxa-
tion of the whole people, numbering some
100000, 000, has become 30 burdensome
that it Is a question whether the world
may not witness one of the most gigantic
bankruptcies Of history, only in less degree
disastrous to the conquered Indians han
to their British conquerors.
In 1883. Lord HARRINGTON, now the
Duke Of DEvoNsHIRE and O member of
the present British Cabinet. warned the
British people of the danger of the self
ish policy that was being followed in
India, and of the effect 1t would have in
exasperating the people against British
rule. He is now in q position to make his
influence felt, IL 1t is not already too
late. Influential Indians in their despair
are openly asking each other whether the
condition of their country could be worse
under Russian rule, and one In particular
has gone so far as to warn the English
Government that there are features In It's
Indian administration which Russian
emissaries could urge with great plausi-
bility upon the minds of the masses Of the
Indian people against the English, If ever
the Russian Government contemplated dis.
turbing England In India.